Q 01/05

After ten issues of Captain America Comics, its creators left Timely for which rival publisher?

A) DC Comics

B) Fawcett Comics

C) Quality Comics

D) Dell Comics

Answer · why

A) DC Comics

DC Comics offered the pair far more after Simon decided Goodman was holding back their promised share of the profits, and Goodman fired them when he l...

Q 02/05

Who made his comics debut with a two-page prose story in Captain America Comics #3?

A) Stan Lee

B) Will Eisner

C) Steve Ditko

D) Roy Thomas

Answer · why

A) Stan Lee

Stan Lee was a teenage office assistant then, and when Simon and Kirby left later in 1941, Goodman made him interim editor.

Q 03/05

Who is Captain America shown punching on the cover of his first issue?

A) Benito Mussolini

B) Hirohito

C) Adolf Hitler

D) The Red Skull

Answer · why

C) Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the greatest villain you could think of, Simon said, and the pro-Nazi German American Bund objected to the comic mocking their leader...

Q 04/05

Roughly how many copies did Captain America Comics #1 sell?

A) About 10,000

B) About 100,000

C) About 1,000,000

D) About 10,000,000

Answer · why

C) About 1,000,000

About 1,000,000 copies sold, and the series kept selling a million a month, yet Simon and Kirby saw little of the profits.

Q 05/05

In The First Avenger, what job is the newly enhanced Captain America given before he sees combat?

A) Selling war bonds on tour

B) Guarding the president

C) Training new recruits

D) Testing Stark's weapons

Answer · why

A) Selling war bonds on tour

Selling war bonds on tour kept him from the front until he learned Bucky's unit was missing in Italy and went behind enemy lines to rescue them himsel...