Saturday Solutions - Epic Fail Edition

The bestest thing about yesterday's Trekki quiz was the artwork on the banner, so let's run that again!

Here are the "Official Answers" that ran with the quiz in Marvel's Pizzazz magazine -

Ummm - yeeee-ah...
Let's take it by the numbers, shall we?

1. Mr. Spock plays the Vulcan Lute, which does look like a small harp. And it is sometimes called a Vulcan Lyre or a Vulcan Harp. We'll give it a half point for correctness. (minus a half point since he can also wiggle his ears)
2. - 4. Answers lie within acceptable parameters, and remind us that we are reading a Marvel magazine.
5. Arell Blanton's Lt. Dickerson was the "Chief Security Guard" for one episode - The Savage Curtain - and never seen again. All ranking personnel wearing red who weren't a part of the Engineering staff would be classified as "Security officer aboard the Enterprise."
6. I would have said "Trouble" which doesn't make their answer incorrect.
7...   8...
9! Well, apparently there was an un-aired scene where Bruce Hyde got carried away as Kevin Riley when he usurped Kirk's captaincy. It seems he must have swiped Montgomery Scott's nickname, too.
Obviously, it didn't stick. As i recall, they called him "Kathleen" in the mess hall for quite a while. (Kevin, not Bruce. Bruce was/is cool.)
10. Yup.
11. Okay... Maybe this guy actually does know his Trek and he's just playing with us?
See, Zarabeth was a woman played by the lovely Mariette Hartley. And the answer "the only meat Spock ever ate" was likely a technically correct answer at that point in his life. We weren't privy to the specifics of their coupling on 1960's TV to fully confirm one way or another, but it seems logical given the parameters of the situation.
13. The name of the High Priestess of Yonada was Natira, not Matiza. And Yonada was an asteroid ship, not a world.
14. The Horta was the creature appearing in the episode Devil In The Dark. The first aired episode was The Man Trap, featuring a shape shifting salt vampire named Nancy.
15. Well, at least they knew the Horta was just protecting her eggs.
17. The Hyena, of course, was Leena.
18. "Medical Check-Up"  Is that the new euphemism for an uncontrolled mating rut? Y'know - like Shatner's title for that episode... "What Makes Salmon Run?"
21. Jeffrey Hunter played Captain Chrisopher Pike in the first pilot - the officer who handed over command to Captain Kirk at the beginning of his tour on the Enterprise. William Shatner was, indeed, the only actor play James T. Kirk on film, both live action and animated. (On vinyl record is another matter. And this quiz was last century, before the reboot with the punk kid version of Kirk)
22. "A Villain? Oh! You wound me, Sir! I BLEED that a Noble Rogue such as myself might be branded a villain by a cruel and unjust governance!"
23. There are six pads on the transporter platform and six is the maximum recommended safe transport, but we did see that number exceeded on at least one occasion. (And shouldn't the hanger and storage facilities on board the Enterprise have a cargo transporter? (Your Honor, we call Speculation - Irrelevant to the answer. (Agreed. Move along.)))
24. I would have said "Half Human." That's what they told him when he was growing up.
26. Seriously? A total non-aggression pact forcibly imposed upon both stellar empires and maintained by highly evolved outside parties because Kirk and Kor lose their shit every time they meet, and all they're going to do is mention who signed it? The description could have been   Glorious.

*sigh*

The rest is close enough. I'm too depressed to go on.

But!
We do have a Bonus Saturday Solution!!

An answer to yesterday's Matinee query* as to the nature of Micro-Face. No, i don't mean an answer to why the poor sap was hobbled with the name Micro-Face, and why there was no talking badger or something to harass him for it. I mean, to what did the name refer?
As it turns out, he did not have a shrunken face on a normal sized skull, like Little Face. But he did not have tasers from his face, just like Taser-Face. However, the name Micro-Face is derived from the Micro Mask our hero, Tom Wood, developed.
No, it's not a very small mask. It has "Micro" tools built into it. Like Microscope, Microphone, Micro... ears?

Okay. But still...

Micro-Face?

puzzle from Pizzazz # 5 (1978), Micro-Face from Clue Comics #1 (1943)

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*(My apologies to any who tried the link and hit a dead page earlier. Blogger is now "correcting" the code and such directed links are no longer possible)

3 Day Weekend Matinee - Enter The Giant

For the lead feature on today's matinee, we travel back to 1943. Nearly a quarter century before Daisaku Kusama/Johnny Sokko commanded his Giant Robot, more than half a century before Hogarth Hughes teamed up with his Iron Giant, another young lad had his own giant warrior automaton for his adventures. We've got his 14 page debut strip from the first issue of Clue Comics. (Those first 9 issues were a bit odd.)

Before we get to that, of course, we've got our ongoing serial - Oskar Lebeck & Alden McWilliams' classic Twin Earths.

Previously on Twin Earths: Vana, a defector from Terra - the human inhabited planet in an orbital position opposite Sol from the Earth - has allied herself with the United States government. Having survived assassination attempts by her former planet, romance blossoms between Vana and her FBI liason, Agent Garry Verth while she educates him on the history of her planet. Two centuries prior, a terrible plague devestated their world, and killed off the vast majority of the planet's male population...

Twin Earths - Chapter Seven:

 While Steve Martin (the comedian/singer, not the Raymond Burr character from the US version of the original Godzilla) may champion Tut for the title, there's another contender for Boy King who gets the vote around here. (Sorry, old boy - not just shoes are cruel)

Meet David, the Boy King of Swisslakia. (What? Did you think that inventing countries in comics did not go back to the beginnings of the medium? But, don't fret - we get a map.)
Written by Charles Biro & Bob Wood, with artwork from Alan Mandel and Dan Barry, here's his introductory tale -

Do you think that maybe the Boy King might be a tad on the violent side in dealing with his enemies?
Take a gander at the blurb on the cover of the next issue:

"We Warn You! The BOY KING Will KILL CRIME!"

You might be right.

Meanwhile - Micro-Face?
Is he related to Taser-Face?
Or perhaps to Dick Tracy's Little Face?

Seriously - Micro-Face?

I guess we'll find out tomorrow...

page art from Twin Earths and Clue Comics #1 (1943, 1952)