# Great Comic Book Exclamations!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501 "2003-10-30T19:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/21 "2003-10-31T15:22:53Z")
“…” - Black Bolt ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/22 "2003-10-31T16:18:30Z")
I can’t believe this thread has lasted almost a day without somone saying BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH! (Although actually I tried to post it last night and the hamsters ate it.) –Cliffy P.S. Yes, “Imperius Rex!” is Namor. (Note spelling, unless you don’t care, and why would you?) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/23 "2003-10-31T20:23:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fibber McGee \* > \*\*Wonder Woman has actually said this? > > :smack: \*\* Alas, but yes. Up until the mid-1960s, “Sufferin’ Sappho” was one of the ‘Amazin’ Amazon’s’ trademark exclamations. I guess that in the 40s & 50s, not too many people were aware of the (ahem) sexual connotation that invoking Sappho suggested. Thankfully, it was jettisoned - along with the invisible robot plane - when she got retconned by Perez in the mid-80s. Here’s some more exclamations : “By the Goddess!” or just “Goddess!” and "Lord of the Earth and Air!’ by everyone’s favorite street urchin/thief-turned-tribal goddess-turned-mutant superhero - Storm. (Is it just coincidence that thinking of Wonder Woman and lesbianism led me to think about Storm? hmmmm) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/24 "2003-10-31T20:50:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > CROM AND MITRA! **rjung** got the Conan quote wrong! 😛 Hey, I’m more of a **Groo** reader, y’know? 😉 “Did I err?” ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/25 "2003-10-31T21:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > Alas, but yes. Up until the mid-1960s, “Sufferin’ Sappho” was one of the ‘Amazin’ Amazon’s’ trademark There was a funny Sufferin’ Sappho joke during Walt Simonson’s recent run. > [@](#): > > BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH! By golly, you’re right. Dr. Strange has my favorite exclamations of all. “By the twelve moons of Munnopor!” “By the Vishanti!” “Demons of Denak!” “By the all-seeing eye of Agamotto!” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/26 "2003-10-31T21:48:23Z")
Ahh, Groo! I see we have something in common **rjung**! 😃 The funnier exclamations, for me, came from Issue #50, turned more funny because a fan send a letter saying that barbarians had a code that comply them to say: “What manner of wizardry is this?” And: “YO! Fiend!” At least once in a sword and sorcery adventure, and the reader threatened to send the barbarian brute squad if they did not comply in a future issue. Evanier or Aragones replied they would never comply with a reader’s treats…. By then Groo had screamed those exclamations to the Amazons in the same issue! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/27 "2003-10-31T22:06:55Z")
Fuckin’ DIIEE!!! (Jesse Custer) Whenever possible, I try to use the pharse, “As any fool can plainly see.” As soon as someone, _any_one, replies with “I can plainly see that,” I shall marry that person on the spot. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/28 "2003-11-01T03:20:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > \*\*Hey, I’m more of a **Groo** reader, y’know? 😉 > > “Did I err?” \*\* Silence, mendicant.😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![voxnihili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@voxnihili](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voxnihili)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/29 "2003-11-02T06:46:48Z")
Heehee, during the ‘Return of Superman’ story ark, in an issue of ‘Adventures of Superman’ where Superboy stops a missile from Engine City from destroying Metropolis, Perry White utters the phrase “Great Shades of Elvis!” That’s always stuck with me, as has “Saturn’s Rings!” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501/30 "2003-11-02T07:19:19Z")
\<\\> My favorite was “You are too late to make a fool of Groo!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-comic-book-exclamations/210501.md?page=1)