# Simpsons: Is it true that Comic Book Guy's name has never been revealed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651 "2005-01-25T22:21:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/1 "2005-01-25T22:21:51Z")
Today in the \*NY Post \* they state that the Simpson’s episode that will air on Superbowl Sunday will reveal CBG’s real name for the first time ever. Really? Wasn’t it mentioned before, maybe during the episode in which he and Principal Skinner’s mom get it on? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/2 "2005-01-25T22:24:10Z")
It’s true, he’s never been named on air. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/3 "2005-01-25T22:33:09Z")
> [@stuyguy](#): > > Really? Wasn’t it mentioned before, maybe during the episode in which he and Principal Skinner’s mom get it on? Nope-- everyone uses impersonal pronouns to refer to him. Sometimes it’s very conspicuous, like the follow-up to that episode, when CBG moves in on Edna, further tormenting Skinner. “You! What are _you_ doing here?” ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/4 "2005-01-25T23:00:23Z")
No, but the Sea Captain’s last name is McAlister (not sure of spelling) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/5 "2005-01-25T23:11:38Z")
It’s McAllister. And he’s also not a real Captain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/6 "2005-01-25T23:18:12Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Nope-- everyone uses impersonal pronouns to refer to him. Actually, I’ve heard characters, on more than one occasion, refer to him directly as Comic Book Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/7 "2005-01-25T23:18:35Z")
My guess is that his name is Charles Bartholomew Guy. His card reads C. B. Guy and everyone thought it stood for comic book. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/8 "2005-01-26T00:15:00Z")
I saw an episode over the weekend and the TV reporter was visiting her old hometown (Springfield) and she refered to him as “Comic Book Guy.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/9 "2005-01-26T00:15:42Z")
But Charles is Burns’s first name, and Bartholomew is some other character in the show’s name (gee, I wonder who?). But maybe you’re on the right track. Maybe he’s Colin Brian Guy or whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/10 "2005-01-26T00:21:00Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > Actually, I’ve heard characters, on more than one occasion, refer to him directly as Comic Book Guy. There’s the episode where Homer’s chartering a bus to go to a ballgame, and Lisa reads “Comic Book Guy” off the list of passengers he’s signed up, but the joke is that they’re all peripheral characters that Homer doesn’t really know, (ie; “The sea captain, the kid with the squeaky voice, the comic book guy, the guy in the bumblebee suit…”) but what are the other instances? (There’s another episode where they’re pretty coy about CBG’s name – he’s asking someone for an autograph and says “Please make out one to me, and three more to my friends who also are named the same as me.”) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/11 "2005-01-26T00:24:17Z")
Other instances, I mean, besides the one that **Maxx** recalled that I overlooked. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 26, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-is-it-true-that-comic-book-guys-name-has-never-been-revealed/286651/12 "2005-01-26T01:04:04Z")
In a comic books collectors’ magazine, in an interview with Groening, his name was revealed. Louis Lane