I'm surprised IgMo hasn't tried to answer this one.


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I've been drawing a blank. A member of the Wanderers perhaps?

Is this the villain that controlled beasts? I think he was called Jungle King. He's the only guy I can think of that fits the description.

Unless it's Eltro Gand - a descendant of Mon-El that took Mon-El's place for an issue and sacrificed himself in the end.

Eltro Gand made a later "appearance" in the 5YL Legion, though. That was the best issue of the 5YL run, IMHO.

I must be too specific......

I would have accepted either
Blockade Boy
http://www.comicvine.com/blockade-boy/29-61405/

Plant Lad
http://www.comicvine.com/plant-kid/29-47466/

and the 1/2 I was refering to was
Weight Wizard
http://www.comicvine.com/weight-wizard/29-61470/

All 3 of them died trying to escape the Stalag of space in Adventure #344-345. Sorry for my obscurity.....

Thread now wide open.

I'll take up that torch!

In the 70s, Wildcat was written with Ben-Grimm-esque dialgue, even though he had in fact been a med school dropout as originally conceived. Presumably somebody noticed the discrepency and wrote an in-story explanation. What was it?

Not sure how they explained the Med school dropout part, But if I remember correctly they said he'd taken too many punches to the head.

This might just bug me enough that I have to go down and pull out those mid 70's issues of All Star Comics.

Was it exposure to Icicle's freeze weapons?

seems it was something like that, as opposed to the much more logical head injuries from years of boxing...

aqhoffman is correct. In fact, one of the characters wrote it off as too many punched to the head, when in fact it was Icicle. I think he may have actually been mind-controlled Ted via it, but that is a sketchy detail I don't remember.

Of course, this is all because a Med School dropout can't drop his g's when talkin' or act like a sterotypical tough guy.

woohoo! I've had a dryspell on these trivia threads lately. Was getting worried that my memory was failing.

Will be back with a question sometime this morning.

Okay, switching gears entirely.

The Warlock and Infinity Gauntlet focus in clix right now got me thinking about the early "direct-sales" titles.
Can anyone recall DC's first direct-sales ongoing monthly title?

Was it Thriller?

Superboy???? or is your Infinity Gauntlet a clue of some sort?

Hmm... Gauntlet, Thriller, Boy... Michael Jackson had his own comicbook ???

Hah! Nobody has it so far, but Michael Jackson would have been a great team up with a character that made his debut appearance early on in this series.

No, the Gauntlet wasn't a clue, it is just that Warlock was an early, if not the first, of Marvel's similar direct sales efforts.

Michael Jackson would be a great team up with this character ???
Jerry Sandusky had his own comicbook ???