With the annual Silver Age Comic Trivia contest set to unfold in Chicago near the end of this month (early this year), now's as good a time as any for me to prime my brain by posting some comic book trivia for Blog Points. Each correct answer posted by 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday, June 9/08 will receive a Blog Point. I'll add the official answers as a Comment to this post tomorrow night, after 9:00.
1) Who is the Iron Man villain who wears a different type of ring on each of his 10 fingers?
2) Which superhero was also a professor at Ivy Town University?
3) In the upcoming Incredible Hulk movie, a character named Leonard Samson will apparently appear. In the comics, by what more famous name is Leonard known?
4) In which comic series did Doctor Stephen Strange first appear?
5) Who did the Justice League of America fight in their debut (in Brave and the Bold # 28)?
6) Which two DC series featured the first inter-title crossover (in which the story began in one title and ended in another)?
7) Name any four members of the Inhumans.
8) Which Batman comic regular was revealed to actually be the villain, The Outsider?
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Wow, not a single guess made for any of these questions! Good thing it's me going to the Trivia Contest and not any of you lunkheads! (Just kidding, although these questions are much easier than what I typically get asked in Chicago!)
Answers:
1) The master of the many rings is the Mandarin, who may just show up in Iron Man 2.
2) Professor Ray "The Atom" Palmer is the egghead-in-spandex at Ivy Town U.
3) Leonard's post-Gamma irradiation nomme de plume is Doc Samson.
4) Dr Strange, of course, first appeared in Strange Tales (# 110, to be precise).
5) The brand new JLA faced off against Starro the Conqueror (a malevolent, intelligent and giant starfish invader from space) in their first appearance.
6) Strangely enough, it was Doom Patrol and Challengers of the Unknown who performed the first pass-the-baton trick of starting a story in one title only to finish it in another. These days, that sort of thing is commonplace, but back in 1966? No way!
7) The Inhumans are, of course, Black Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, Karnak, Triton, Gorgon and Lockjaw.
8) Can it be? Was faithful butler, Alfred Pennyworth, really the villainous Outsider? Well, there was a goofy explanation provided for it, but yes.
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