Incidentally, I too love the original (ie, Earth-2) Huntress. In my recollection, her first appearance involved not JSA members but the villain Huntress and her husband, the Sportsmaster, hunting Helena Wayne in an empty museum after dark. I have fond memories of that tale. I think Joe Staton drew it. Most likely that was an early story, but not her debut story.

Cripes. I figured Omar or Cei-U or someone would have already answered them all correctly by now.

Personally, I’m inCENTsed at your inCENTsitivity.

But my brain tells me that #11 involves a pun.

11. Who was the villain of the case that resulted in Batman acquiring the Batcave’s giant penny? (It’s not Two-Face, not even post-Crisis.)

I’m thinking it was the CENTaur.

Or the CENTurian.

Or someone who likes puns who was beaten CENTSless.

I’ll stop now.

Still, I can answer about 5 of the questions… I’ll check in next week and see what the others are. They *are* interesting!

Is this still going on and did you decide on a prize? Two things I would like to know before I devote myself to this INSANE challenge.

It goes on till Thursday midnight. And yes, the prize is now edited in.

Look, you don’t have to get a perfect score, you just have to get the best score. Put it this way — a day later, Kirayoshi’s in the lead and he only got three right and broke a rule besides. C’mon, man up, you sissies! Give it a shot at least! What have you got to lose? You won’t even be embarrassed since the answers are e-mailed. I won’t tell on you if you make a really bad guess at something.

The Alfred question can’t be for real.

ALL the questions are for real. We have had Batman stories going on from 1939 till today. All kinds of crazy stuff happened.

Female leads in comics being as scarce as they are, you might do better to go down the list of lady headliners DC’s published and ask yourself which ones could plausibly have hooked up with Alfred, even just as part of a scam.

And the Batcave pin-up is from Dick Sprang. In 1995 Sprang created a large format (27″ by 35″) lithograph, “The Secrets of the Batcave” for the collector market. This numbered print was sold by Gotham Graphics and limited to 500. I desperately want one but I cannot in good conscience spend the money. We’re trying to strip things down around here anyway.

And I have a terrible geek memory. So this quiz is way beyond my abilities. I would’ve tried to google stuff if it weren’t being frowned upon. Though it looks like I may get quite a few of the answers just by refreshing the comments since there’s always SOMEONE who can’t bother to read the frickin’ rules >coughcough<.

The villain behind the giant penny was CENSORED The ultimate penny-ante crook and officially the Last Villain Who Will Ever Appear in a Batman Movie Ever! Although Two-Face was responsible for the giant penny in the DCAU. Exchange from “Almost Got Him”:

Ivy: So what happened to the giant penny?
Croc: …it was a big rock…
Dent: They let him keep it, as a souvenir.

OTHER ANSWERS WERE CENSORED AS WELL. TSK.

As alternates, I’d suggest Karl Hellfern, or, if that seems too obvious, perhaps the likes of Ed Rigger, Roderik Rose, Alexander Sartorius, Karl Cortney, or Phil Cobb.

To be really fiendish, there’s the villain whose real name was unknown before Zero Hour, and has since been thrown into question anew, but whose “true identity” was Inmate #234026 at the state pen. Or ask for all three names used by Ned Creegan in his villainous career.