Q 01/05

Which writer and artist created the Hulk in 1962?

A) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

B) Stan Lee and Steve Ditko

C) Stan Lee and Don Heck

D) Stan Lee and John Romita

Answer · why

A) Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby mixed two horror classics: a misunderstood monster in the mould of Frankenstein's and the split self of Jekyll and Hyde.

Q 02/05

What colour was the Hulk's skin in his very first issue?

A) Grey

B) Green

C) Blue

D) Red

Answer · why

A) Grey

Grey proved too hard to print: the shade shifted from page to page, at times coming out greenish, so the Hulk was simply made green from issue two.

Q 03/05

Before anger became the trigger, what first turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk in his earliest comics?

A) A full moon

B) Thunderstorms

C) Loud noise

D) Nightfall

Answer · why

D) Nightfall

Nightfall did it at first: Banner became the Hulk each evening whatever his mood, and only later did rage take over as the trigger.

Q 04/05

Whom did Banner save from the bomb test that turned him into the Hulk?

A) Betty Ross

B) Rick Jones

C) Glenn Talbot

D) Leonard Samson

Answer · why

B) Rick Jones

Rick Jones strayed onto the test site and Banner shoved him into a trench; at first he was the only person who knew the secret, and the only one who c...

Q 05/05

What official full name fixed Stan Lee's mix-up after he called the Hulk's alter ego 'Bob'?

A) Robert Bruce Banner

B) Bruce Robert Banner

C) David Bruce Banner

D) Bruce David Banner

Answer · why

A) Robert Bruce Banner

Robert Bruce Banner was Lee's cheeky fix: when readers caught the slip, he declared in print that this was the full name, "so we can't go wrong no mat...