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I think the comic book publishers had to get fact checkers about the same time that they had to start giving out "No Prizes". IIRC, the first instance was when somebody wrote a letter crying foul about Tony Stark's "transistor-powered" armor. Of course, transistors don't actually "power" anything.

> I think the comic book publishers had to get fact checkers about the same time that they had to start giving out "No Prizes". IIRC, the first instance was when somebody wrote a letter crying foul about Tony Stark's "transistor-powered" armor. Of course, transistors don't actually "power" anything.

Yeah, I remember periodically seeing readers in the letter's column attempting to snag No Prizes with physics :) Another case I remember was from an issue of "Avengers" where someone complained that Graviton was described as being able to increase his target's mass, which the letter-writer complained was in violation of conservation law. I don't seem to have that issue anymore, but right now I'm looking in #165 and in the letters column there's someone trying to get a biology-based No Prize :) The complaint there is that the artist drew some ants with eight legs rather than six. The editor responded, "Wouldja believe that they were all mutant ants?" before conceding the No Prize :)