but what are the cookies actually called?

I can't remember.

Thanks!

Well, in JLI it was Oreos. In the Martian Manhunter issue that delves into that, they're called "Chocos".

Thank you!

I might take some to the pre-release, for kicks!

Don't let your friends hide them away from you though.

Once you have the taste of Chocos and are denied, you always hulk out and demand, in the third person, that you want Chocos while crashing through half the city.

The same thing happens at my venue but it involves wanting pants

I thought the Marian Manhunter liked Hydrox Chocolate Sandwich cookies (with Mr. Sunshine on the box). I think I can even remember him poo-pooing Oreos to Oberon or Max in the JL books.

HCS cookies were one of the few kosker cookies out there (so I could see them being popular in New York city and therefore the center of comic-creation). Unfortunately, Hydrox cookies was bought out by Keebler, and they did away with the cookie, reintroducing it years later as Droxies. Now, I don't think the Droxie is made anymore either, and Keebler now only had a chocolate sandwich cookie under Famous Amos.

Sorry, I work for the Girl Scouts, so I know a fair bit about commercial cookies.

In a Martian Manhunter miniseries that took place in the sixties, it talks about Hydrox cookies a lot. In other things, I've seen them called Chocos. Functionally speaking, they're Oreos.

Ahhh... see sure functionally, they are Oreos. A chocolate sandwich cookie... but there is symbolism in the attraction of the ultimate 2nd place hero Martian Manhunter prefering the 2nd place chocolate sandwich cookie.

And by 2nd, I mean in his abilities:

Detective: 1st place Batman, 2nd place Martian Manhunter
Strenght: 1st place Superman, 2nd place Martian Manhunter

you get the idea. In no way is this a pot shot at the Martian Manhunter, just my take on the character.

And then you get to know that Hydrox existed before Oreos, and only Oreos superiror marketing entrenched the cookie as the front-runner and originator. It's nice to realize that advertising and marketing were doing this as far back as 1912.

It's been longer than that, if you really think about it. Attempting to attract a mate is really a complex marketing attempt.

Wasn't this also a picture on a Vs System card?

anyways... wow. a lot of responses.

Actually, in one of the early issues of Sandman, MM actually calls them Oreos. I believe he's talking to Scott Free after a meeting with Dream, and MM's line is something to the effect of, "You can partake of my hidden stash of Oreos".

Ah.. it looks like my memory is going. This is the clip for WIkipedia:

In DC Comics' 1980s comic book series Justice League International, Keith Giffen gave the Martian Manhunter a fondness for Oreos, which was later picked up on by other writers. In Martian Manhunter #24 (November 2000), which shows this as a dangerous addiction, the name of the cookies are changed to "Chocos". Martian Manhunter's appearance in Smallville is foreshadowed by the discovery of a half-eaten Oreo.