Saturday, April 28, 2012

THE PUZZLE CORNER: APRIL 28, 2012

Another weekend is upon us, and you know what that means.

AKA (also known as)
ANOTHER new puzzle to join our rotating cast of enigmas!
We'll give you an alternate name for something, and you have to know what it's mostly known as.
Ready?

This classic comedy routine has been called by one of its original performers as "The Thesaurus Sketch".

BEFORE AND AFTER
Two separate things share at least one common word so that they can combine to make a new entity.
From the clue below, do you know what it is?

A meal deal in Margaritaville?


We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's peek inside THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results from April 21's Puzzle Corner which was themed in honor of our Editor-In-Chief's trip to Pulp Ark 2012.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Basically, one of the items below is somewhat different than the other two. Do you know who the proverbial odd man out is and why?

{The Shadow, Doc Savage, Tarzan}

THERE ARE THREE POSSIBLE ANSWERS TO THIS!
When I first created this puzzle, my original answer was (1.) The Shadow, because that character started out on radio as the mysterious host of the Detective Story Hour  before becoming a pulp star, unlike the other two, who started their distinguished careers directly in the pulps.
HOWEVER, while at Pulp Ark 2012, Doctor Art Sippo pointed out to me that Tarzan could be the odd man out for two different reasons.
(2.)Both The Shadow and Doc Savage were published by Street and Smith/Codne Nast while Tarzan started his print career at All Story Magazine, published by Frank Munsey.
(3.)PLUS: All the Shadow and Doc Savage stories were published under house names. Mostly written by Walter B. Gibson, all the Shadow stories were accredited to Maxwell Grant. Lester Dent created most of the Doc Savage tales, despite the fact that all were accredited to Kenneth Robeson. Every original Tarzan tale of the day was written by the Jungle Lord's creator: Edgar Rice Burroughs.

THE FIFTY-FIFTY CHANCE
True or False: The Shadow is really Lamont Cranston.
FALSE!! While other media have simplified the answer to The Shadow just being Cranston, he is really Kent Allard pretending to be Lamont Cranston (the real one actually spent most of the series in Europe) when not actively fighting evil as The Shadow.

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