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The covers all feature villains killed by Scourge.

As for babysitting, I'd guess The Thing - if it were Penthouse Forum babysitting, however, it'd be Sue.

Cover homage:

Do you mean the cover for Action Comics 300 where Superman's the last man on earth? They are pretty similar.

Sue or The Thing are really the only plausible choices. You're not gonna have a notorious playboy or a nutty professor babysit your kid.

Dangit, I finally get a cover theme I recognize (Death Adder, the Enforcer, and Mirage were all victims of Scourge), and someone beats me to it!

Sue's obviously the only worthwhile babysitter in the FF; heck, it could be argued that she babysits Reed, Ben and Johnny.

And while I don't recognize the homage, it'd fit perfectly in at superdickery.com; I can even see the caption. "This doesn't mean he didn't do it; it just means that this time he's trying to pin it on someone else."

Uh, is anyone crazy enough to want someone other than Sue babysitting your kid?

Actually, I suppose I'd pick Crystal. She has more experience with the babysitting and all.

I think the mystery character is Nemesis aka Tom Tresser.

The character in question in Nemesis. 2 gave me the idea, and 5 confirmed it for me.

I'd leave my kids with Ghostrider. Why? Because I'm a bad father.

Hmmmmm. I originally thought that Ben Grim would be a great baby sitter (my 4 year old can be pretty destructive!) but I'm leaning towards Reed Richards. I mean, he is a fort, a trampoline, silly putty, the man of 1000 faces, Mr. Wizard, and many more all rolled into one. Although, Luke Cage would be good, just so my kids could walk around saying "Sweet Christmas" after he left. I've tried to teach it to them and it just won't stick!

Betty Brant is a correct answer after the first two clues.

Any chance of a more DC-centric cover challenge some time? I don't know nearly enough Marvel history to have a chance in any of these

Any chance of a more DC-centric cover challenge some time? I don’t know nearly enough Marvel history to have a chance in any of these

Look no further than the 12/4 edition, which no one has correctly guessed yet!

Here's a link to it -

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/12/04/snark-free-corner-for-124/

Thanks to sterg for correcting me (I originally said 12/18).

Brian, I think you mean the 12/4 Snark Free Corner.

My Guess for that theme is famous firsts:
Nightwing (first boy sidekick, as Robin)
JSA (first superteam)
Superman (first superhero)

superhero*

Since Cronin wrote this, I'm going to guess that the answer to all of these is "John Byrne sucks." Even the ones that weren't questions.

For what it's worth, I got the Scourge thing too, but was beaten to the punch several times over...

If Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius has proven nothing else, it's that the only babysitter worth beans in the Baxter Building is H.E.R.B.I.E.

Dang. Everybody else on this board beat me to the Scourge theme and the Sue-Storm-as-hot-babysitter comments.

I thought the "Who is it?" character was Nightshade until question 4. I loved Nemesis in SUICIDE SQUAD, but had no idea questions 2, 4 and 5 applied to him.

"Look no further than the 12/4 edition, which no one has correctly guessed yet!"

Thanks! Unfortunately I haven't got a clue what the answer is