The Department of Pointless Questions. Fantastic Four #118.

As you'll see from other post of today, I'm in a Diablo state of mind. And that inevitably brings us to The Fantastic Four issue #118. It's a comic I have a lot of affection for, mostly because, as part of Marvel's short-lived move to longer comics, it features not one but two stories.

Not only that but its interior contains both Diablo and Crystal of the Inhumans, with Crystal in particular looking rather fetching in the guise of a fake goddess.

But, it strikes my eyeballs that there's an anatomical error with one of the characters on this cover. So, can you spot what it is?

As always the winner gets a great big Steve Does Comics No-Prize.

Remember, no ordinary blog hands out such awards - probably because no ordinary blog's so cheap and mean-spirited - so it's a non-prize you simply won't be able to get anywhere else.

The Department of Pointless Questions: Results. Apeslayer. A Rose by any other name.

Well done to (c)The Stardust Kid 2010 on correctly remembering that, in the Marvel UK Killraven/Planet of the Apes mash-up that was Apeslayer, the unfortunate Carmilla Frost found herself renamed San Simian. Well done to me too. The question's already had just under a hundred page-views in the few hours since it was posted, making it already the site's most viewed post of the week and knocking at the door of the site's all-time Top Ten. Who'd have thought there was such love for Apeslayer out there?

Like just about everyone else on the Internet, it seems, The Stardust Kid goes joint top of our Department of Pointless Questions Leaderboard.

For those of a curious bent, the original question can be found here.

PS. Don't forget to vote in our Apeslayer v Killraven poll. You never know, with all those Martians and speaking apes around, the future survival of humanity might depend on it.

The Department of Pointless Questions: Apeslayer. A rose by any other name.

As we all know, the weekly Marvel UK Planet of the Apes comic reprinted US Marvel's Planet of the Apes material so quickly it often ended up reprinting stories before they'd even been printed in the first place.

When even that didn't work and they ran out of material altogether, they came up with the brilliant wheeze of getting the Killraven stories and having an artist redraw the bad guys' heads as ape heads, and replaced the word, "Martians," with the word, "Apes." Thus was born the legendary strip we in the UK knew as Apeslayer.

Obviously, in these tales, Killraven became Apeslayer but what was the new name bestowed upon the luvverly Carmilla Frost?

The Department of Pointless Questions Results: The Avengers play "Spot the Difference."

Well done to Kid on spotting that the change Marvel UK made to the cover of The Avengers #79, so that it wouldn't confuse UK readers, was they redrew the Vision as Thor because the story was published by them before they'd published the Vision's debut story.

Thanks to his Action Man style eagle-eyes, Kid goes joint top of the Department of Pointless Questions Leader Board. It's so tense up there. Will Steve Does Comics ever live to see that table get an outright leader?

Because it's a matter of life and death that such things are seen to be done properly, the original question can be found here.

The Department of Pointless Questions. The Avengers play, "Spot the Difference."

As many of us know, Marvel UK's Avengers comic was a fine and wonderful thing that gave us not just reprints of the Avengers tales but also Dr Strange and Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu - not to mention the odd bit of Iron Fist and Conan the Barbarian.

But, for whatever reason, they didn't always reprint their stories in the right order. Issue #79's a perfect example of the problems such a policy could cause.

I didn't initially notice it when I reviewed the original version of this comic a bit back but there's been a change made to the cover to make it acceptable to a British audience. So, the question is can those eagle-eyes of yours spot just what that alteration is? And no I'm not talking about them having changed the price to pence.

The Department of Pointless Questions. Crusher Creel Results.

Well done to Aggy on winning the Crusher Creel quiz by pointing out that Thor beat the Absorbing Man on their first encounter by turning him to helium so he'd float off into outer space.

Aggy joins cerebus660 at the top of our Department of Pointless Questions League Table.

For those cursed by curiosity, the original question - and answer - can be found here.

The Department of Pointless Questions. From Crusher with love.

If Name That Character isn't enough to keep you busy, we're back with another round of the feature that is to online quizzes what Galactus is to conservation. And our question is; What "elementary" method did Thor use to defeat the Absorbing Man the first time they met?

As always, the first correct answer wins, and the winner walks away with nothing but a warm fuzzy glow of achievement and a place on The Department of Pointless Questions Leaderboard. Remember, Red Sonja's killed men for less.

The Department of Pointless Questions. Spidey speechless results.

The Lizard closes in on Spider-Man as
surely as cerebus closed in on that No-
Prize.

Well, my latest feature's been a runaway success and I'm proud to announce we have our first winner; cerebus660, who correctly guessed that the issue of The Amazing Spider-Man where Stan Lee left a bunch of speech balloons blank in order that we could do his work for him have fun filling them in for ourselves was Amazing Spider-Man #45, featuring the larcenous Lizard and the Connors family.

All of which means that, after a lot of work, cerebus wins, well, nothing, as opposed to the National Lottery where, in exchange for doing nothing, one can win millions. The Department of Pointless Questions; no wonder it's the quiz they're all talking about.

For those who're curious, you can find the original question here. Well done, cerebus.

The Department of Pointless Questions. Spidey speechless.

Conventional wisdom has it that, in order to make people feel involved with your blog, you should have quizzes, and so, taking a brief diversion from the drama and majesty of the Avengers/Defenders War, I'm launching my latest feature; The Department of Pointless Questions.

I like to feel it's a huge turning point in the history of the Internet, and so we kick off with its first ever question: In which John Romita issue of The Amazing Spider-Man did Stan Lee leave a group of speech balloons empty so the reader could have fun filling them in themselves? The first person to answer gets the magnificent award that is the Steve Does Comics No-Prize. Imagine the envy your friends will feel as it doesn't sit there on your mantelpiece.