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Even with a few borrowed elements like the head wings, that's certainly a unique costume. Gray with red and yellow accents? Surely the only supersuit EVER with that color scheme. Who else used gray (besides Hulk in #1)? Jack

You have a great eye -- speaking of eye, I stared at the Ben Casey photo cover (greggy's quiz) for a minute or two, trying to persuade myself that it matched, then gave up. When Bangzoom posted the answer, I realized that I was looking at the wrong eye! So obvious! Jack

I'll take that to mean "WRONG!!" Jack

Nice-looking cover! I wish I had the issue. I'll guess standard Silver Age giant stone faces plot B: To scare off an alien invasion. (Silver Age giant stone faces plot A: They're a race of giants, usually aliens, in suspended animation. I don't think we'd see the faces being carved in that case.) Jack

You have upset him. The only way to calm him down is to call him tuna. He will say he doesn't like it, but don't believe him. I'll have to remember that. Thanks (thumbs u This will help. Charlie's got sort of a Liefeld physique, doesn't he? Jack

Special commendation for working from memory! ... Don't give me too much credit... while I don't have access to my books, I do surf the net at work, and the DC Special clue sent me to Mike's DC comics index ( free plug for www.dcindexes.com) with its link back to the original story appearance. Special commendation rescinded. In fact, that's exactly what I was aiming for. There's too much information instantly available. Jack

Special commendation for working from memory! Next clue. If that didn't work, I'd have been desperate! My very own, recently acquired copy. Don't be jealous. Jack

OK, you Bronze Age honchos. Socko was featured on the cover of a DC Special -- where was his original appearance and what was he called in the story? (Here I thought this was easier than identifying a 16 pixel x 16 pixel cover sample.) JPS

No, but a good guess. I'd even call it the best so far. Jack

Socko's story was a reworked Captain Comet story. JPS

. Socko did not have a partner named Vanzetti. JPS

Crickets.... His nickname was "Socko". Jack

Who was Paul Chase? (Several clues ready.) Jack

Tornado Champion = second Red Tornado JPS

It really is the magazine with the widest range of appeal, isn't it? Great covers! Jack

Either you'll have to be more specific, or there's something subtle about the question that I'm missing. First 3 off the top of my head: Medusa Black Widow Pied Piper Jack

Preceded by "a gas". (Not that he wrote Metamorpho, but I don't think Stan Lee ever figured out that "gas", "metal" and "steel" weren't elements.) Jack

Scrooge says via PM: "I am still in Europe. Could you please ask the next question for me. Thanks!!!" Let's go with a non-picture (and probably easier) question this time -- my element obsession is back again. What was the first specifically identified element that Metamorpho transformed into? Jack

Look who's back! Good thing I reloaded the page before I posted. Jack

Got any pics? I should have seen that coming. Zinda is quite demure in this issue, only appearing in costume in two panels (from the waist up). This page is fairly good-girly, on the other hand. Dillin obviously thought that she has what my mom would have called "such a cute figure". Here's one of the hotter covers with Lady Blackhawk in costume. Jack

Nice! Hard to call an L. B. Cole funny animal book a short bus candidate. I'd snap it up in an instant. Jack

Love to see a scan of that. Been going on for centuries. link Thanks for the followup. This really is quite the Cold War comic book. Those wily Rooskies! I sure hope I didn't lower the condition from good- to good- - with all the scanning. Jack

I posted the cover in General, but I doubt there'll be much interest there. I'll repeat some comments here and add a page. Blackhawk 71 from the Quality era, December 1953. Interesting issue -- the cover shows how Quality was floundering around with what to do with a leftover war feature, but the Blackhawk gang is keeping up with the trends by facing a Flying Saucer Assault. The issue opens with an origin recap -- I don't know whether it follows the original origin or adds new twists. Second is a politically incorrect Chop Chop story. It's interesting that Chop Chop is handled with a little more respect in the "serious" stories. Although he still has to ride as Blackhawk's copilot, he's not a total idjit, and he fights the giant villains as effectively as the other guys. Here he's played strictly for laughs, with the exaggerated accent, coolie outfit, buck teeth and all. Third is the flying saucer story, which opens with "a new atom bomb test on a principle discovered by Blackhawk himself!" The 'Hawks encounter a hidden, scientifically advanced race. Gotta love that cold war era. The last story is about The Red Tiger with a strong anti-Commie theme, including a Russian gang dressed in tiger suits, riding inside a giant red-tiger battle machine. Interesting that the action takes place on the Iran-Afghanistan border. Plus ça change... Jack

I'm never sure where to put "Atomic Age" books like this low-grade Blackhawk 71 from the Quality era, December 1953. Probably better here than Silver. Interesting issue -- the cover shows how Quality was floundering around with what to do with a leftover war feature, but the Blackhawk gang is keeping up with the trends by facing a Flying Saucer Assault. The issue opens with an origin recap -- I don't know whether it follows the original origin or adds new twists. Second is a politically incorrect Chop Chop story -- find a scan on the Short Bus. Third is the flying saucer story, that opens with "a new atom bomb test on a principle discovered by Blackhawk himself!" The 'Hawks encounter a hidden, scientifically advanced race. Gotta love that cold war era. The last story is about The Red Tiger with a strong anti-Commie theme, including a Russian gang dressed in tiger suits, riding inside a giant red-tiger battle machine. Interesting that the action takes place on the Iran-Afghanistan border. Plus ça change... Jack

Here's a box 10¢ book from a series that doesn't get mentioned very often: Blackhawk 163 from August 1961. DC was still trying to figure out what to do with this title, as Blackhawk and the gang were becoming pseudo-superheroes, encountering weird menaces, costumed supervillains, and such. A hooded villain named Mysto is behind the giants on the cover. There's also a Lady Blackhawk story in this issue. I'm suprised that she didn't get the cover spot, as her fetishistic leather and pleated mini-skirt costume couldn't have hurt sales. Yeah, I know, edge wear and foxing. Jack