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Post by hondobrode on Sept 10, 2017 11:47:41 GMT -5
I spent way too much time on this...  Is that a good thing or a bad thing ? I'm not trying to make it TO hard, with Roy Thomas level minutia, but I'd like CCFer's, myself included, to maybe learn some new historical details in the process, like the character who stopped an attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese in the comics before it happened IRL Not everyone is a Golden Age expert like Cei-U or codystarbuck, so instead of going straight through chronologically, I'm going to jump a decade at a time, so after 1939 is solved, I'll post 1949, then 1959, etc, and then back to 1940, 1950, etc. Maybe that will get more CCFer's with knowledge in different eras more involved |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 10, 2017 20:21:33 GMT -5
I spent way too much time on this... Is that a good thing or a bad thing ? I'm not trying to make it TO hard, with Roy Thomas level minutia, but I'd like CCFer's, myself included, to maybe learn some new historical details in the process, like the character who stopped an attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese in the comics before it happened IRL Not everyone is a Golden Age expert like Cei-U or codystarbuck, so instead of going straight through chronologically, I'm going to jump a decade at a time, so after 1939 is solved, I'll post 1949, then 1959, etc, and then back to 1940, 1950, etc. Maybe that will get more CCFer's with knowledge in different eras more involved No, more of a statement that I got really wrapped up in it. I don't like leaving a puzzle unsolved. One piece of feedback, though. A lot of the words only connect at one or two points, which makes it harder to solve the puzzle, if your knowledge isn't that strong or there is more than one answer that fits the space and the clue. My own strategy, with crossword puzzles, is to zip through and answer everything I know, immediately, then work geographically across the puzzle. The more words intersect, the more you can narrow a word down, as you solve others in that same area. Of course, laying out a crossword puzzle and make it interesting isn't easy. My knowledge of the Golden Age is pretty decent, from reading every comic history book I could find, over the last 30 years (and there weren't that many, really). Even so, those tend to be fairly broad. My knowledge of a lot of those companies boils down to what titles and major characters they published and not a whole lot beyond, depending on the company or character. I would never want to go up against a Roy Thomas or Ron Goulart on a Golden Age trivia contest, or Mark Waid and Mark Evanier on a Silver Age. |
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 10, 2017 20:47:58 GMT -5
I get it.
Over the years I've grown to like puzzles more and more.
As far as the spacing, I plug the criteria into a software program.
Like you, I've read lots of comic book history over the years.
In some ways, I like the history even more than the stories !
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