I'm pleased to say the Silver Age Pro-Fan Trivia Challenge will return to C2E2 again this year! It will be held at 2:30-3:30 on Sunday, April 27 on The Twitch Stage on the show floor, whatever that is.
Join moderator Mr. Silver Age as four (or more) Fans take on Mark Waid in a battle of brain cells about totally useless Silver Age super-hero trivia!
The show is at the Rosemont Convention Center in Rosemont (outside Chicago) starting on Friday, April 25. A full report will be posted here as it was last year:
-- MSA
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This is kind of an off-the-wall suggestion, Mr. Age, but knowing that you've had to compile who knows how many thousands of questions for these quizzes over the years, I'm sure you'll appreciate its simple but profound elegance. And it's pure Silver Age, too.
I suggest you dig up a bunch of old "Jokes by Cracky" pages from 1960s Gold Keys (as opposed to the short-lived WACKY ADVENTURES OF CRACKY comic book from the early 1970s), and give the set-up to the joke. Then the contestants will have to come up with the punchline. Just imagine the hilarity that will ensue! It will be like the old "Hollywood Squares" show (but without Paul Lynde).
While truly innovative and no doubt a sure fire way to make the panel memorable, Gold Key comics aren't part of our coverage, and I hate to make everyone go scramble to find those issues at this point. They have a hard enough time with Scooter and Oogie Pringle to be throwing Cracky at them.
But I think you've nailed it--the level of hilarity we produce is approximately that of the old Hollywood Squares without Paul Lynde.
-- MSA
Would that make you Peter Marshall or Charlie Weaver?
I play the role of Peter Marshall, but I have the folksy charm of Charlie Weaver. Although I like to think of myself as being in the debonair mold of Wally Cox.
-- MSA