River City Comic Expo's guest list numbers dozens of names familiar to fans of science fiction and horror movies and TV shows, comic books, costuming, games and book and toy sales.
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Here is a quiz to separate super fans from ordinary mortals, based on who's who at the comics show.
1.HAILING ON ALL FREQUENCIES
• Actress Nichelle Nichols boldly went as communications officer Lt. Uhura on TV's original Star Trek series, 1966-69. She had an off-the-ground job even before then as: (A) airline stewardess; (B) dancer and singer with jazz bandleader Duke Ellington; or (C) circus trapeze artist.
2.COSMIC FORCES BEYOND COMPREHENSION
• Little Rock native Gil Gerard rocketed into the future in the title role of TV's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 1979-81. Less known for his adventures in the past, he: (A) set a record for the most times of riding the Tomorrowland rocket at Disneyland; (B) played TV spaceman Captain Video's sidekick, Video Ranger; or (C) studied chemistry at Arkansas State Teachers College, now the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.
3.BE-DEEP BIDI BOOTY
• Felix Silla played Buck Rogers' little robot pal, Twiki, and other TV roles including: (A) Cousin Itt in The Addams Family; (B) a Talosian (bulging big brain guy) in Star Trek; (C) an Ewok in Return of the Jedi; or (D) all and more.
4.TO THE BATCAVE
• Comics artist Neal Adams has not only drawn most of the greatest comic-book characters -- Batman, Superman, The X-Men -- but also created some of his own. For one, he came up with: (A) Bat Mite; (B) supervillain Ra's Al Ghul, currently causing trouble for the Green Arrow and TV's Legends of Tomorrow; or (C) Underdog.
5.STUPEFYIN'!
• The Frazetta Girls, mother and daughter Holly and Sara, are the daughter and granddaughter of the late fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. The painter's famous works include "Death Dealer," the red-eyed warrior horseman with a bloody ax. Not so well known, he also drew: (A) Little Lulu; (B) the Morton Salt girl; or (C) Daisy Mae Yokum, Moonbeam McSwine and other pulchritudinous denizens of Dogpatch, Ark., as L'il Abner cartoonist Al Capp's assistant.
ASTOUNDING ANSWERS
1-B, 2-C, 3-D, 4-B, 5-C.
Style on 06/05/2016