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Scrooge McDuck space adventure where he fights an alien despot from an energy oriented economy

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Who was the first Marvel superhero who was an active part of two different superhero teams?

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What happened to the elves who were slain before the end of the Great Journey?

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When did Bilbo and Frodo learn that Gandalf was a Maia?

Did Shadowfax go to Valinor?

Humorous story in which future archaeologists find a motel room and they believe to have found a great tomb similar to that of Tutankhamun

First work where a traveler from afar arrives to a backward society and he tries to help its scientific progress

Did the Hobbits of the Fellowship of the Ring wear hats?

Child who travels to space in his imagination. When old, travels again but nobody cares because space travel is now trivial

Was Isaac Asimov lactose intolerant?

Ancient film where a knight rescues a princess from an evil magician

Comic-book: Kids find a dead female superhero in the woods

Identify the background image of a dragon from this book cover

Weapons that glow when the enemy is near. Are there precedents before Tolkien?

Oneiric travel to Mars in rocket ship made from scrap

Gandalf's other horse

Scrooge McDuck space adventure where he fights an alien despot from an energy oriented economy

French or Belgian comic book from the 1960s or 1970s. A group of teenagers fight against a snake-man with magical powers

Fantasy novel about a young witch girl in a parallel world very similar to the Europe of the early Modern Age

Who was the first Marvel superhero who was an active part of two different superhero teams?

What happened to the elves who were slain before the end of the Great Journey?

Short story in which three child siblings with superpowers kill all of humanity but are afraid of being destroyed in turn by their descendants

Short story called “Idiot planet” or something similar

Causes of Morbius' death and the disappearance of the Id monster

Short story with travel between alternative realities through the London Underground

Title of movie akin to “The land that time forgot (1975)” with rebel german submarine that refused to surrender

What's the earliest story where magic precludes technology and vice versa?

What is the first reference of solid metallic hydrogen as a tool in science fiction?

Children's Italian steampunk comic from 1970 with a trip to Mars HG Wells style. Earthlings taught the Martians to play football

Book for children: the winning knight of a tournament is rewarded with a wish and he wishes that the dragons must not be killed

Did Tolkien designate any elf as the most powerful warrior of his kind?

Why in George Pal's film “The time machine” a sudden stop of the machine causes a rain?

70s (?) Superman adventure in a world where everyone dresses like Superman