Comic Book Trivia for Kids
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60 free Comic Book Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This comic book trivia quiz is written for kids. If you have read a Dog Man book, watched a Spider-Man movie, laughed at Garfield or seen Snoopy on his doghouse, you already know a lot of these answers. The questions cover superheroes from Marvel and DC, newspaper strips like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, European favourites like Tintin and Asterix, Japanese manga such as Astro Boy and Doraemon, and modern graphic novels including Captain Underpants, Bone, Amulet, Smile and Big Nate. Everything here is the kind of thing you learn from actually reading the comics: which planet Superman comes from, what Thor's hammer is called, who draws Dog Man, what kind of animal Snoopy is and why the Ninja Turtles have such fancy names. There are no dark storylines and no obscure dates, just fun facts for readers aged around eight and up. Grown-ups who want something tougher can try our main comic books trivia quiz. Every answer was checked against a reliable source before publishing, so you can trust the results when you play with friends, family or a classroom.
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Q 01Superman was born on which planet before being sent to Earth as a baby?
Krypton
Superman was born on Krypton; his parents Jor-El and Lara launched him toward Earth in a small rocket moments before the planet exploded, and the Kents found the baby in a Kansas field.
Q 02What is the name of the newspaper where Clark Kent works?
The Daily Planet
Clark Kent reports for the Daily Planet, the Metropolis newspaper whose building is topped by a giant globe; Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and editor Perry White work there too.
Q 03What colour is the glowing rock from Superman's home planet that makes him weak?
Green
Green is the colour of the glowing rock that weakens Superman; its radiation cannot pass through lead, which is why he can hide behind lead walls. Red and gold varieties exist in the comics too.
Q 04Batman protects which fictional city?
Gotham
Writer Bill Finger picked the name Gotham instead of New York so readers in any city could imagine it was theirs.
Q 05What is Batman's real name?
Bruce Wayne
Batman is billionaire Bruce Wayne, raised by the family butler Alfred Pennyworth after his parents were murdered in an alley; he famously refuses to use guns.
Q 06Who is Batman's best-known sidekick?
Robin
The first Robin, Dick Grayson, was a circus acrobat from a family called the Flying Graysons. Together they are known as the Dynamic Duo.
Q 07How did Peter Parker get his amazing powers?
He was bitten by a radioactive spider
Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider at a science exhibit, gaining wall-crawling, super strength and spider-sense; he then built his own web-shooters and sewed his own costume.
Q 08Which two relatives raised Peter Parker in Queens, New York?
Aunt May and Uncle Ben
Aunt May and Uncle Ben Parker raised their orphaned nephew Peter in Forest Hills, Queens; Uncle Ben was killed by a burglar Peter had earlier let run past him.
Q 09What is the name of the island where Wonder Woman and the Amazons live?
Themyscira
Wonder Woman's home is Themyscira, also called Paradise Island, where she is Princess Diana; in the oldest stories her mother, Queen Hippolyta, sculpted her from clay.
Q 10What kind of radiation turned scientist Bruce Banner into the Hulk?
Gamma rays
Gamma rays from an experimental gamma bomb transformed Bruce Banner after he ran onto the test site to push teenager Rick Jones to safety; the angrier the Hulk gets, the stronger he becomes.
Q 11Which billionaire inventor builds a suit of armour and becomes Iron Man?
Tony Stark
Tony Stark built the first Iron Man suit to escape after being captured in a war zone; Iron Man went on to be a founding member of the Avengers in 1963.
Q 12Captain America's most famous piece of equipment is what?
A nearly indestructible shield
Captain America's nearly indestructible shield is made of a vibranium alloy; skinny Steve Rogers became a super-soldier through a special serum and was frozen in ice for decades before waking in modern times.
Q 13What is the name of Thor's enchanted hammer?
Mjolnir
Q 21What breed of dog is Snoopy?
A beagle
Snoopy is a beagle who sleeps on top of his doghouse; he came from the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, and his siblings include Spike, who lives alone in the desert near Needles, California.
Q 22What is the name of Snoopy's best friend, a small yellow bird?
Woodstock
Woodstock, the small yellow bird, first appeared in 1966 and was finally given his name in June 1970, after the famous 1969 music festival.
Q 23What is Garfield the cat's favourite food?
Lasagna
Lasagna is Garfield's favourite food; the lazy, sarcastic, always-hungry cat lives with his owner Jon Arbuckle and the not-very-bright dog Odie.
Mjolnir, Thor's enchanted hammer, lets him fly and command storms, and only those deemed worthy can lift it; his trouble-making adopted brother Loki is his greatest enemy.
Q 14Black Panther is the king of which fictional African country?
Wakanda
Wakanda, T'Challa's hidden kingdom, is rich in the super-strong metal vibranium, which powers its advanced technology and the Black Panther suit.
Q 15How did Barry Allen become the super-fast Flash?
A lightning strike in his laboratory
A lightning strike in his laboratory doused Barry Allen in electrified chemicals and gave him super-speed; he works as a police forensic scientist and keeps his red costume squashed inside a ring.
Q 16Aquaman is the king of which underwater kingdom?
Atlantis
Aquaman rules Atlantis; his real name is Arthur Curry, son of a lighthouse keeper and an Atlantean queen, and his enemy Black Manta wears a big round helmet.
Q 17The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after what kind of people?
Italian Renaissance artists
The Turtles are named after Italian Renaissance artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, painters and sculptors who worked in Italy in the 1400s and 1500s.
Q 18What kind of animal is Splinter, who teaches the Ninja Turtles ninjutsu?
A rat
Splinter is a mutated rat who raised the four Turtles in the sewers and trained them in ninjutsu; their human friend April O'Neil is often a TV news reporter.
Q 19Who created the comic strip Peanuts, drawing every single strip himself for almost 50 years?
Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz drew all 17,897 Peanuts strips himself from 1950 to 2000, which has been called the longest story ever told by one person; at its peak it ran in more than 2,600 newspapers.
Q 20In Peanuts, who always pulls the football away just as Charlie Brown tries to kick it?
Lucy
Lucy van Pelt yanks the football away every autumn and sends Charlie Brown flying, a gag she first pulled in 1952; her little brother Linus carries a security blanket everywhere.
Q 24Who created Garfield?
Jim Davis
Jim Davis created Garfield, which debuted on 19 June 1978 and was once listed by Guinness World Records as the world's most widely syndicated comic strip; the strip is set in Muncie, Indiana.
Q 25In Calvin and Hobbes, what kind of animal is Hobbes?
A tiger
Hobbes is a tiger, a stuffed toy to everyone else but a walking, talking best friend to six-year-old Calvin; Calvin's alter egos include Spaceman Spiff.
Q 26Who created Calvin and Hobbes and refused to let the characters become toys or cartoons?
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson created Calvin and Hobbes, which ran from 1985 to 1995 in more than 2,000 newspapers; he turned down all merchandising, so there were never official toys or cartoons.
Q 27Tintin is a young reporter from which country?
Belgium
Tintin comes from Belgium: creator Hergé (Georges Remi) was born in Brussels and launched the character in 1929 in the Brussels newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle; Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus are his friends.
Q 28What is the name of Tintin's faithful white dog?
Snowy
Snowy, a white wire fox terrier, is called Milou in the original French books; the bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson are also regulars.
Q 29In the Asterix books, what gives the villagers the strength to fight off the Roman army?
A magic potion
The magic potion brewed by the druid Getafix gives temporary superhuman strength; Obelix fell into the cauldron as a baby, so its effects on him never wear off.
Q 30Asterix and his friends are Gauls fighting against the army of which Roman leader?
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar's legions occupy Gaul in the stories, set around 50 BC after his conquest; the books have sold more than 390 million copies, and there is an Asterix theme park near Paris.