Q 01/05

Which anthology series introduced Peter Parker in its final issue before cancellation in 1962?

A) Tales to Astonish

B) Strange Tales

C) Amazing Fantasy

D) Journey into Mystery

Answer · why

C) Amazing Fantasy

Amazing Fantasy was already slated for cancellation, Stan Lee recalled, which is why his publisher let him try a hero based on a spider; the issue sol...

Q 02/05

Where in New York City was Peter Parker raised?

A) Brooklyn

B) Hell's Kitchen

C) Queens

D) The Bronx

Answer · why

C) Queens

Queens is home: a 1989 comic gave his address as 20 Ingram Street, Forest Hills, a real house where a family named Parker spent decades receiving his ...

Q 03/05

On screen Tony Stark is captured in Afghanistan, but which country was it in his 1963 comic debut?

A) Korea

B) Vietnam

C) Cuba

D) East Germany

Answer · why

B) Vietnam

Vietnam was the 1963 setting; as that war slipped into the past, writers blurred it to an unnamed Southeast Asian country, and Marvel finally invented...

Q 04/05

Which duo created Captain America in 1940?

A) Bill Everett and Carl Burgos

B) Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

C) Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

D) Bob Kane and Bill Finger

Answer · why

C) Joe Simon and Jack Kirby

Joe Simon and Jack Kirby put him on the first cover punching Hitler, and it went on sale nearly a year before Pearl Harbor brought America into the wa...

Q 05/05

Why was Steve Rogers initially rejected by the US Army?

A) Being under age

B) A criminal record

C) Physical unfitness

D) Foreign citizenship

Answer · why

C) Physical unfitness

Physical unfitness kept the frail Rogers out, so he volunteered for a secret serum trial; a Nazi spy then shot its inventor, leaving Rogers the only s...