Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Trivia Quiz #44: Famous First Words

Pretty obvious format here: I give you the first words of the character, you have to name him or her.  Note: I am excluding cover and splash page statements here:

1. "I've found it!  The legendary city of Caramanga!"

2. "Well, here goes experiment #145!"

3. "Lead never hurt a wooden leg!"

4. "It is the first time I have found it necessary to give the signal!"

5. "Huh?  What?  Go 'way!  I wanna sleep! Lemme be!"

(Update: Corrected the quote on #5 per commenter Boosterrific)
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9 comments:

  1. Scipio8:56 AM

    Hmmmm...

    1. "I've found it! The legendary city of Caramanga!"

    Adam Strange, pillaging a native culture near you!

    2. "Well, here goes experiment #145!"

    Perhaps... Dr. Erdel?

    3. "Lead never hurt a wooden leg!"

    Gotta be Captain Storm.

    4. "It is the first time I have found it necessary to give the signal!"

    Huh. Enemy Ace?

    5. "Huh? What? Go 'way! Let me sleep!"

    Archie? Lazy slacker.

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  2. Anonymous9:12 AM

    1. Adam Strange

    2. Ray Palmer

    3. Captain Storm [reasonable guess]

    4, 5. ???

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  3. Anonymous9:14 AM

    The verification word for my previous post was "porno." --Jim

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  4. Joplin John11:13 AM

    I'm stumped, but isn't #4 from the first issue of Fantastic Four?

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  5. Lou Mougin12:32 PM

    1. Adam Strange, as others have indicated.
    2. No idea. Ray Palmer, the Atom?
    3. Captain Storm.
    4. Mr. Fantastic.
    5. Sub-Mariner.

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  6. Boosterrific4:17 PM

    RE: #5. In my ESSENTIAL FF VOL 1 (also containing the answer to #4), Sub-Mariner says in his first 2 word balloons: "Huh?? What--? Go 'way... I wanna sleep! Lemme be!" But that's not really the first published words of the character, is it? I mean, Johnny Storm was reading a comic book about the Sub-Mariner on the preceding page where it is implied that the Sub-Mariner character is the same as existed in the Golden Age. So wouldn't his "first words" be in 1939's MOTION PICTURES FUNNIES? (Granted, this is a blog about the Silver Age, and those are inarguably Namor's first Silver Age words, but still, you did say "the first words of the character." I'm not intentionally trolling, honest.)

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  7. Ed6:26 PM

    #3 Must be Captain Storm. The others don't ring a bell, I'm afraid.

    Good idea for the quiz, Pat!

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  8. Mr. Miller10:57 PM

    1 Adam Strange
    2
    3 Captain Storm
    4 Reed Richards
    5 Sub Mariner

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  9. Michael Rebain7:46 AM

    My guesses would be Adam Strange for #1 and Captain Storm for #3.

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