Q 01/05

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman first appeared in which comic, cover-dated June 1938?

A) Action Comics #1

B) Detective Comics #1

C) Superman #1

D) All-Star Comics #1

Answer · why

A) Action Comics #1

Action Comics #1 cost ten cents; a copy sold for $6 million in 2024, and its June 1938 cover date is the usual starting point of the Golden Age of com...

Q 02/05

Batman debuted in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Which artist and writer are credited with creating him?

A) Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

B) Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

C) Bob Kane and Bill Finger

D) Jack Kirby and Joe Simon

Answer · why

C) Bob Kane and Bill Finger

Bob Kane and Bill Finger share the credit now, but Kane took sole credit for decades; DC only added Finger's name to the official credit line in 2015.

Q 03/05

Which artist, alongside writer Stan Lee, co-created Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15?

A) Jack Kirby

B) Steve Ditko

C) John Romita Sr.

D) Joe Sinnott

Answer · why

B) Steve Ditko

Steve Ditko defined the look and co-plotted the early stories, then quit Marvel in 1966 and stayed famously reclusive for the rest of his life.

Q 04/05

Which anthology comic introduced Wonder Woman in October 1941?

A) Sensation Comics #1

B) Wonder Woman #1

C) All Star Comics #8

D) Comic Cavalcade #1

Answer · why

C) All Star Comics #8

All Star Comics #8 tucked her eight-page debut in beside the Justice Society to test whether readers wanted her; they did, and by 1942 she led Sensati...

Q 05/05

Which Marvel Comics title introduced Iron Man, cover-dated March 1963?

A) Tales of Suspense #39

B) The Invincible Iron Man #1

C) Journey into Mystery #83

D) The Avengers #1

Answer · why

A) Tales of Suspense #39

Tales of Suspense #39 had Tony Stark captured in Vietnam and ordered to build a weapon; he built a suit of armour for himself instead and escaped, and...