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The Never-Ending Comic Book Quiz
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BangZoom

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I'd like to help GCD straighten out this series. Is it in current Overstreet or any other database?

 

As far as I can tell, the first is nn (#1) from Marvel, 1983

#2 from Marvel, 1984

Is #3 from Archie or Marvel? 1985?

#4 Archie 1987?

#5 Archie 1988?

#6 Archie 1989?

#7 Archie 1989?

 

 

I wish I could help you answer some of those questions but I really don't know anything

about the comic.

 

I found this page and from the sample panels of the strip they posted, I made a guess. :eek:

 

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics81.html

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I'd like to help GCD straighten out this series. Is it in current Overstreet or any other database?

 

As far as I can tell, the first is nn (#1) from Marvel, 1983

#2 from Marvel, 1984

Is #3 from Archie or Marvel? 1985?

#4 Archie 1987?

#5 Archie 1988?

#6 Archie 1989?

#7 Archie 1989?

 

 

I wish I could help you answer some of those questions but I really don't know anything

about the comic.

 

I found this page and from the sample panels of the strip they posted, I made a guess. :eek:

 

http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics81.html

 

HAH!

Smart guess. I did a very quick www scan to see whether the answer was easy to find but missed that page.

Very weird comic book!

 

Jack

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This alien appeared on the cover of what comic?

 

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Planet Comics 10!

 

 

:applause:^^

 

thenkyavurrymuch.

 

It's hard to come up with a question tough enough for this group!

 

One of the co-creators of Captain America produced a comic book about the experiences of two friends at a US military academy. What were the names of the two friends?

 

Jack

 

 

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It's hard to come up with a question tough enough for this group!

 

 

Maybe I overdid it.

 

 

One of the co-creators of Captain America produced a comic book about the experiences of two friends at a US military academy. What were the names of the two friends?

 

 

Coast Guard Academy

 

JPS

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bronze_rules

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Great Question. I've never heard of that title? Do you have a cover or a pointer to it?

 

I figured since there were tales of cole and simba as friends at farr military academy, in blue bolt created by joe simon, it was the answer. Both he and kirby worked on the early blue bolts.

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I know that Simon was in the Coast Guard during WWII and had been quoted as saying he did work on a recruitment comic book and/or strips. But I haven't seen anything else in print about that subject. (shrug)

 

Woo-hoo!

 

I've stumped BZ (and all) on a Coast Guard recruitment comic book published by Street & Smith in 1945.

 

Jack

 

 

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I've stumped BZ (and all) on a Coast Guard recruitment comic book published by Street & Smith in 1945.

 

 

My latest guess for the friend's names are Milt and Joe.

 

Great guess. Those are indeed the first names of two friends (Specialists Second Class USCGR, to be precise) that worked on the book. You're definitely barking up the right tree, but those are not the names of the characters in the story.

 

If by tonight it's clear that you have to have the book in hand to answer this one, I'll give up on the question. No one is likely to get it by guessing.

 

Is the book scarcer than a Gerber scarcity of 5 would indicate? (Gerber has the year as 1944, Overstreet and my copy show 1945).

 

Jack

(If you saw my copy, you wouldn't be jealous.)

 

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I've stumped BZ (and all) on a Coast Guard recruitment comic book published by Street & Smith in 1945.

 

 

My latest guess for the friend's names are Milt and Joe.

 

Great guess. Those are indeed the first names of two friends (Specialists Second Class USCGR, to be precise) that worked on the book. You're definitely barking up the right tree, but those are not the names of the characters in the story.

 

If by tonight it's clear that you have to have the book in hand to answer this one, I'll give up on the question. No one is likely to get it by guessing.

 

Is the book scarcer than a Gerber scarcity of 5 would indicate? (Gerber has the year as 1944, Overstreet and my copy show 1945).

 

Jack

(If you saw my copy, you wouldn't be jealous.)

 

Here it is. Anyone here covet rusty staples?

 

51257-AdvenCareersmall.jpg

 

Jack

 

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bronze_rules

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http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=16112&Lot_No=16003&src=pr

funny, they only list it as milt gross here. Wonder why they forgot to put simon.

He seems more significant to me. Cover had to be simon. Thank you for teaching me some great trivia. I'm going to remember this one.

 

(worship)

 

one more guess for the names: bill and ken

(there's a henry warner in there somewhere).

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http://comics.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=16112&Lot_No=16003&src=pr

funny, they only list it as milt gross here. Wonder why they forgot to put simon.

He seems more significant to me. Cover had to be simon. Thank you for teaching me some great trivia. I'm going to remember this one.

 

(worship)

 

one more guess for the names: bill and ken

(there's a henry warner in there somewhere).

 

It's been most of a day so I'm going to end the question.

 

I'm surprised at the Heritage listing too. The credits are listed as

ART AND EDITORIAL

Joe Simon, Specialist Second Class, USCGR

Milton Gross, Specialist Second Class, USCGR

 

Overstreet says "Simon, Milt Gross -- a"

but the artwork looks like essentially all Simon to me. Notice that he signed both splash pages below. I don't see a trace of Gross. Maybe he only edited this book. Roy Thomas may use these very scans of my primo copy of Adventure is My Career for an upcoming Joe Simon article in Alter Ego.

 

Here's William (Bill) Brown in the doorway and Henry Warner (how'd you find his name?) with the luggage.

 

51269-AdvenCareer7small.jpg

 

Here are Bill and Henry getting hazed.

 

51270-AdvenCareer34.jpg

 

You got 3/4 of the answer so I declare you ^^

 

Jack

 

 

 

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bronze_rules

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I dug deep on the internet somewhere. May have even been your 1st scan I saw.

There's another chapter 3 scan showing all the schwabs running on deck and a letter to bill above. I wasn't sure if they were writing the letter to bill the reader of the comic, or bill the protagonist/character. So I guessed bill because he was a friend of simon's in the coast guard as well as the name the letter was addressed to! Ken was another friend that was added to simon and kirby's ranks.

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