| 100% | JOESIMON | 8 | First editor of Timely Comics before it was Marvel |
| 56% | JOESIMON | 8 | First editor of Timely Comics who co-created Marvel's Captain America with Jack Kirby: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LET | 3 | First word of Beatles' song ending It Be |
| 35% | PETERSTUYVESANT | 15 | Leader of New Netherland before it was renamed New York |
| 35% | APRIL | 5 | Its first day is full of practical jokes |
| 35% | BROKEN | 6 | State of a bone before it is put in a cast |
| 34% | STANLEE | 7 | Long-serving editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics |
| 34% | LEE | 3 | Stan ___, former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics |
| 34% | NOVA | 4 | Its first episode was "The Making of a Natural History Film" |
| 33% | STET | 4 | Editor's "Leave this as it is" (anagram of "tets") |
| 33% | SENEGAL | 7 | Léopold Sédar Senghor, theorist of “Négritude,” was its first President |
| 33% | PEOPLEMAGAZINE | 14 | Mia Farrow was on the cover of its first issue |
| 32% | ABBA | 4 | Quartet whose name is an acronym of its members' first names |
| 32% | TORI | 4 | First name of the author of the celebrity memoir "Spelling It Like It Is" |
| 32% | LOCKJAW | 7 | Giant bulldog from Marvel Comics who is part of the Pet Avengers |
| 32% | EBAY | 4 | One of its first customers was a collector of broken laser pointers |
| 32% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone whose first letter is the same as that of its month |
| 32% | MAD | 3 | Harvey Kurtzman was its first editor |
| 32% | ENYA | 4 | Singer with an Oscar nomination for "May It Be" (from the first "Lord of the Rings" film) |
| 31% | ALOUETTE | 8 | Song whose title is repeated before and after "gentille" in its first line |
| 31% | TOPEKA | 6 | Capital whose last two letters are the first two letters of its state |
| 31% | VERMONT | 7 | State whose last four letters are the first four letters of its capital |
| 31% | REED | 4 | ___ Richards, fictional scientist from Marvel Comics who is the leader of the Fantastic Four |
| 31% | GAUL | 4 | France before it was France |
| 31% | EDO | 3 | Tokyo before it was Tokyo |
| 31% | EDO | 3 | Tokyo, before it was Tokyo |
| 31% | SIAM | 4 | Thailand, before it was Thailand |
| 31% | PLUM | 4 | Prune, before it was dried |
| 31% | ARES | 4 | Marvel Comics character who is the god of war in Greek mythology |
| 31% | PANTHER | 7 | The Black ___, a Marvel superhero who was the first black superhero in mainstream American comics |