Comics

Question 1

This Highlights two-panel magazine comic features a titular duo, one of which was always doing something wrong, while the other did that same thing morally.

Answer 1

Goofus and Gallant

Question 2

In the series From Hell, Alan Moore identifies the royal physician Sir William Withey Gull as which notorious figure?

Answer 2

Jack The Ripper

Question 3

This cop’s associates have included Sam Catchem, Pat Patton and Lizz The Policewoman.

Answer 3

Dick Tracy

Question 4

“It feels like a character I created thirty years ago has escape the realm of fiction.” Which writer said this, referring to the sight of global protestors adopting the Guy Fawkes mask worn by the protagonist of his V For Vendetta?

Answer 4

Alan Moore

Question 5

Although the illustrator Eddie Campbell believes otherwise, in the comic series From Hell Alan Moore identifies the royal physician Sir William Withey Gull as which notorious figure?

Answer 5

Jack The Ripper

Question 6

First published in 1999, which comic book series by Alan Moore features an eponymous team of secret agents that includes Edward Hyde, Captain Nemo, the Invisible Man and Allan Quatermain?

Answer 6

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Question 7

“Sweet Christmas!” was the longtime catchphrase of what Marvel Comics hero, who got his own TV show in 2016?

Answer 7

Luke Cage

Question 8

As art imitates life imitating art, many comic strip characters are also newspaper journalists, from Brenda Starr to Peter Parker. What is the name of the title editor in Jeff MacNelly’s strip about bird journalists?

Answer 8

Shoe

Question 9

Speedy Canadian Jean-Paul Beaubier has served stints with both the X-Men and Alpha Flight. He’s also been one-half of the first same-sex couple to get married in a mainstream comic. By what code name is Jean-Paul – Marvel’s first openly gay superhero – better known?

Answer 9

Northstar

Question 10

Both Dan Garrett and Ted Cord used this superhero identity before El Paso-born Jaime Reyes reluctantly took up the mantle. When his body fuses with a scarab-like piece of alien technology, what alter ego does eventual Teen Titan Jaime inherit?

Answer 10

Blue Beetle

Question 11

I am serious: King T’Challa’s younger sister, the technical wizard of Wakanda, just might be the most intelligent human in the Marvel Universe. Played by actress Letitia Wright in the films Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, what’s this precocious princess’s name?

Answer 11

Shuri

Question 12

Beginning in Avengers #80 (September 1970), Marvel has introduced a succession of Native American heroes who battle evil using what canine identity? (Here’s a hint: Most of these characters have a companion animal named Lobo, but none of them appear to have attended Arkansas State University.)

Answer 12

Red Wolf

Question 13

Gotham City police detective Renee Montoya inherited her superhero identity from a mysterious man named Vic Sage. Like Vic (who sprang from the mind of artist Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange), Renee wears a fedora and trenchcoat along with a featureless face mask when in costume. If we ask you to name Renee’s alter ego, what’s the answer?

Answer 13

The Question

Question 14

This is Superman’s birth name.

Answer 14

Kal-El

Question 15

These two comic characters were named for a European “theologian who believed in predestination” and a “philosopher with a dim view of human nature.”

Answer 15

Calvin & Hobbes

Question 16

The title of a comic strip by Arthur R. “Pop” Momand, which debuted in the New York Globe in 1913, is the source for what idiomatic phrase, roughly defined as maintaining one’s social level in relation to proximate lifestyles? Momand’s inspiration for the strip was his own rivalry with his neighbors.

Answer 16

Keeping Up With The Joneses

Question 17

During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity “C. King.”

Answer 17

Aquaman

Question 18

Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution is called this, like an ancient capital.

Answer 18

Persepolis

Question 19

This comic strip sportscaster has stayed current, covering Anthony Davis and Roger Goodell.

Answer 19

Tank McNamara

Question 20

Per the full title of the strip that cartoonist Dale Messick created in 1940 and drew until 1980, what was the occupation of the impossibly glamorous Brenda Starr?

Answer 20

Reporter

Question 21

The Berkeley Breathed comic strip Outland was a spin-off of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Bloom County and featured many of the same characters, including a penguin named Opus and a cat named what?

Answer 21

Bill the Cat