A Toast To One Man's Memory

Saturday Solutions was rather late after last night's Skyrim session ran right through posting time, followed by crash sleep. So here's an extra post - another tale from our recently departed Len Wein-

A Toast To No Man's Memory by Len Wein and John Severin for Creepy #121 (1980)

Saturday Solutionizing 010

Here are the answers to yesterday's puzzles, according to the book:

As the Mindbender astutely noted yesterday, according to these folks, Aphrodite's power was scoring on the first date?

Okay - how many of you are going to go look for the adventures of "the boy with the most comic books in America"?!

Why not call him Green Lamp then?

Kind of a cheat-y answer, huh?

...and we'll skip right past the arbitrary nature of the different answers to Superman and Captain Marvel, eh?

Friday Fun & Games 010 - 60s Style

As you may well know, i only vote for Friday Night Fights, so instead around these parts we do

This week's FF&G is excerpted from an odd little book from 1966:

This was indeed an odd collection of trivia questions, ranging from the ridiculously easy to the WTF?
For example, the first question in the book is "What was Superman able to do to tall buildings?"
Others have become quite arcane over the ages - "What was the maiden name of Dick Tracy's wife?"
How many of you knew Dick Tracy had a wife? What was going on with Breathless Mahoney then? (still her best album)
We'll be coming back to play with this book again, so cheaters go find your copies now. For today, here's a few pages from early in the book for you to puzzle over:

As almost always, tune in tomorrow for the answers!

puzzle fun from The Great Comics Game by John Stanley & Mal Whyte (1966)

Rampaging Covers

Y'know, The Rampaging Hulk may have been a black & white magazine, but they sure knew how to rock the colour covers:

What's this? The cover story is drawn by Jim Starlin with inks by Alex Nino?
Yeah, we'll be coming back to this one.

And they knew how to cover a final issue, too!

covers from The Rampaging Hulk #s 1-9 (1977-78)

Kellogg's Hostess Challenge (Un-Comics)

I hear mention fairly frequently of the Hostess comic ads featuring various big name heroes, but i very rarely hear anyone talking about the Kellogg's comic ads. This is probably because Hostess's ads ran in DC & Marvel comics, while Kellogg's ran their own mini-comics in products like Pop Tarts or Cinnamon Mini Buns.
Of course, it could also be due to the fact that, every now and then, they went Odd...

Wonder Woman & The  Star Riders Vs. Purrsia from Kellogg's Cinnamon Mini Buns (1993)

Len Gets Creepy

Continuing our look at some Odd bits in the career of  Len Wein after we lost him last week...

When Creepy magazine went to celebrate their 100th issue, they decided to spring for the cost of colour printing for one story. For that one story, they decided Len was the man to write it, with Luis Bermejo providing the artwork:

Winner Take All by Len Wein and Luis Bermejo for Creepy #100 (1978)