Showing posts with label Pizzazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pizzazz. Show all posts

23 June 2018

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)

28 April 2018

Saturday Solutions - Marvel Uncoded

Y'know - With the first answer being "In The Bathtub", i think i'm just going to shut up and present the answers to yesterday's Friday Fun & Games without comment...







We'll leave the comedy today to the master - Dr. Doom?


I'm going back to bed.

quizzes & comedy(?) from Pizzazz #s 2, 3, 4, 7, & 8 (1977, 1978)

24 April 2018

Un-StarWars Un-Comics - Part III: The Final Fury!

Continuing from this morning and this afternoon...




Pizzazz only lasted another seven issues, so the next tale never reached completion. At least, not within the pages of Pizzazz.

But, still - it's another 21 pages from a Star Wars that never existed. So i suspect it'll show up here even without an ending.

pages from Pizzazz #s 7-9 (1978)

Un-StarWars Un-Comics - Part II: A Matter Of Monsters!

Continued from this morning's post...




Concluded this evening...

pages from Pizzazz #s 4-6 (1978)

Un-StarWars Un-Comics - Part I: A New Strip

It's time for some more Un-Comics!
For those who've not encountered the term here previously, un-comics are what we call comics that come from places other than comics - from magazines, convention programs, books, etc.,.

Today, we're looking at un-comics from a Star Wars that never was. Way back in 1977 when there was only one movie with an uncertain future, Marvel's Pizzazz magazine picked up the adventure right where the movie left off.

Now, i'm going to admit a bit of heresy here...
 I never really got into the extended Star Wars universe. I watched the movies, but that was about it. (Not counting things like being suited as a wookie for early Star Wars performances and things like that. Still got the wookie sounds down pat.) So, i'm sure that these have probably been either reprinted in comicbook version, or reformatted into a single story at some point. But, perhaps not?
After all - the licensing rules have changed dramatically in the intervening years.

Either way, i'm going to re-present them here in the original form. After all - it's Roy Thomas, Howard Chaykin, Tony DeZuniga, Marie Severin, Archie Goodwin, George Roussos, Jim Novak...  quite a cast of creators laying out the new tales in 3 page chapters.

In keeping with tradition, we'll be presenting the first story arc in three parts, but we won't make you wait years between releases; we'll get it all done today.

We pick up shortly after the medals awarding ceremony at the end of the first movie...





Continued in today's midday post.

pages from Pizzazz #s 1-3 (1977)

14 April 2018

'Mazing Solutions

Before we get to the mazes, a tip of the hat* to Top Cat James for correctly identified the odd Marvel magazine that sourced our puzzles this week - Pizzazz!


Yeah, i know there's no exclamation point in the printed title, but doesn't it seem like there should be one?

Okay, for anyone who's lost and needs a map to find their way out, here are the keys to yesterday's mazes:









As we saw yesterday, though Spider-Man adorns the cover at the top of this page, the cover of Pizzazz(!) wasn't limited to Marvel characters...


...or even characters from the same franchise...


...in fact, sometimes it could get a little crazy...


...or a little crazed...

Think that might be "Hydra" Cap?

Hell (Demonically presented), sometimes it even got ugly...


...it was a weird little magazine while it lasted.

But let me note, that while i used Ugly for that cover above, i do love Meatloaf and think that Paradise By The Dashboard Light is one of the all-time great rock songs. However, watching  him perform may be a thing of beauty, but it is not pretty. So i stand by the comment for the cover image, but with respect and adoration.

puzzles and covers from Pizzazz magazine (1977, 1978)


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*(Pork Pie? Boater? What type of hat did Top Cat wear?)