Comic Book Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A reader wants an influential title associated with the U.S. underground comix movement of the late 1960s. Which should they choose?
Zap Comix
Famous Funnies
Heavy Metal
MAD
2. A mainstream U.S. publisher in the late 1950s wants its comics to carry the industry's prominent approval seal. What would it most likely need to do?
Register every issue with a newspaper syndicate
Join the National Cartoonists Society
Submit the comics for review under the Comics Code Authority
Receive a content rating from the Library of Congress
3. Batman first appeared in which comic book?
Batman #1
Detective Comics #27
Action Comics #1
World's Finest Comics #1
4. Which work by Will Eisner helped popularize the term and format “graphic novel” in the U.S. market?
Maus
The Dark Knight Returns
A Contract with God
The Spirit
5. A historian uses the debut of Barry Allen as the Flash as a conventional marker for the start of the Silver Age of American comic books. Which issue are they referencing?
Flash Comics #1
Showcase #4
The Flash #105
All-Flash #1
6. Which EC Comics publication was especially known as a horror anthology?
Weird Science
Frontline Combat
Tales from the Crypt
MAD
7. What name did the company now known as Marvel Comics use when it began publishing comics in 1939?
National Comics
Atlas Comics
Marvel Entertainment
Timely Comics
8. Which creator, known for Astro Boy, helped establish influential cinematic storytelling conventions in postwar Japanese manga?
Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Jack Kirby
Hergé
Osamu Tezuka
9. A reader wants to explore the Franco-Belgian tradition commonly called bande dessinée. Which series is the most relevant choice?
Peanuts
2000 AD
Lone Wolf and Cub
The Adventures of Tintin
10. A comic is published online first and later collected in print. Which description best explains why it can still be considered a webcomic?
It features superheroes created specifically for digital animation
It uses no speech balloons or printed words
It was produced without professional writers or artists
Its original publishing and reading platform was the web
11. Which workflow best describes the production approach commonly called the Marvel Method?
The artist develops pages from a plot or synopsis, after which the writer adds dialogue
The writer and artist complete every panel together in a single session
An editor gives separate specialists fixed layouts that cannot be altered
The artist illustrates a fully scripted story without changing its pacing
12. Which writer and psychologist created Wonder Woman with artist H. G. Peter?
Jerry Siegel
William Moulton Marston
Will Eisner
Bob Kane
13. Which publisher originally released the individual issues of Watchmen in the United States?
Eclipse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
DC Comics
Marvel Comics
14. When prominent artists left Marvel to establish Image Comics in 1992, which concern did that move most directly reflect?
Publishers seeking to restore mandatory Comics Code review
Creators seeking greater ownership and control of their work
Retailers seeking to replace comic shops with newspaper stands
Editors seeking to convert American comics entirely to manga formats
15. In which issue did Superman make his first published appearance?
Action Comics #1
Superman #1
Adventure Comics #1
Detective Comics #27
16. What feature most clearly distinguished the comic book direct market from the traditional newsstand model?
Specialty retailers generally ordered comics on a nonreturnable basis
Only newspaper strips could be sold through direct-market stores
Publishers stopped using distributors and shipped only to readers
Every direct-market title had to be released as a hardcover book