The Superman Villains Quiz Book
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THE SUPERMAN VILLAINS QUIZ BOOK
By
Wayne Wheelwright
Publisher Information
The Superman Villains Quiz Book
Published in 2013 by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published, and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
Copyright © 2013 Wayne Wheelwright
The right of Wayne Wheelwright to be identified as author of this book has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Questions
Prankster
Who created The Prankster?
What issue was The Prankster’s first appearance?
In what year was The Pranksters first appearance?
What is The Prankster’s real name?
What was the name of The Prankster’s children’s show?
What network was The Prankster’s show on?
What is The Prankster’s usual method of committing crimes?
During the Critical Condition storyline, which superhero does Prankster pose as?
What does The Prankster offer anybody that hires him when it involves dealing with Superman?
What is the name of the store above The Prankster’s secret lair?
Toyman
Who created The Toyman?
What issue was The Toyman’s first appearance?
In what year was The Toyman’s first appearance?
What is The Toyman’s real name?
Who does Toyman blame for getting fired from the toy company he worked for?
What was the name of Daily Planet employee who’s son Toyman kidnapped and killed?
What was the name of The Toyman’s wife that died in a road accident?
What was revealed about Toyman’s wife?
What is the name of Toyman’s son?
What criminal name did Toyman’s son go by?
Manchester Black
Who created Manchester Black?
What issue was Manchester Black’s first appearance?
In what year was Manchester Black’s first appearance?
What was the name of Manchester Black’s super powered team?
What nationality is Manchester Black?
In the showdown between Manchester Black and Superman on Jupiter moon, what did Manchester Black use his powers to do to Superman?
How did Superman temporarily disable Manchester Black’s powers?
In the Our World’s at War storyline, who had Manchester Black been sent to release?
During the Ending Battle storyline, what information did Manchester Black give to many supervillains?
What was Manchester Black’s plan during the Ending Battle storyline?
Livewire
Who created Livewire?
What issue was Livewire’s first appearance?
In what year was Livewire’s first appearance?
What is Livewire’s real name?
What was Livewire’s profession?
What is Livewire’s superpower?
Which being abducted Livewire along with many other of the Earth’s metahumans?
Which superhero has Livewire shown an attraction to?
During the Superman: Grounded storyline, which member of Superman’s supporting cast does Livewire attack?
What does Superman give Livewire to help her control her power?
Metallo
Who created Metallo?
What issue was Metallo’s first appearance?
In what year was Metallo’s first appearance?
What is Metallo’s real name?
In the 1986 series Man of Steel, what was the name of the professor that transplanted Metallo’s brain into the robotic body?
What is Metallo’s robotic body powered by?
What army rank did Metallo have according to Superman: Secret Origin?
In the New 52, whose command does Metallo operate under?
Who is it implied that Metallo had a relationship with before his accident?
What is the name of the military project that Metallo is the main part of to go against Superman?
Parasite
Who created the original Parasite?
What issue was the original Parasite’s first appearance?
In what year was the original Parasite’s first appearance?
What is the original Parasite’s real name?
What was the Post-Crisis and the most famous Parasite’s real name ?
What was the second Parasite’s profession before his accident?
What colour is The parasite’s skin?
Who did Parasite pose as for a time to destroy Superman’s life?
In Superman: Secret Origin who is indirectly responsible for The Parasite’s transformation?
During the New Krypton storyline, how did the Kryptonians deal with The Parasite?
Mongul
Who created Mongul?
What issue was Mongul’s first appearance?
In what year was Mongul’s first appearance?
What was the name of the plant that Mongul used on Superman in the storyline For the Man Who Has Everything?
What is the name of the space empire that Mongul was ruler of?
What is the name of the alien warrior Superman joined forces with during the gladiatorial games on Warworld to overcome Mongul?
Who did Mongul begrudgingly serve under during a plan to turn Earth into a new Warworld?
Who defeated Mongul during his plan to turn Earth into Warworld?
What are the names of Mongul’s son and daughter?
What choice does Mongul offer the Sinestro Corps members?
Mxyzptlk
Who created Mxyzptlk?
What issue was Mxyzptlk’s first appearance?
In what year was Mxyzptlk’s first appearance?
Mxyzptlk is an imp from where?
What does Mxyzptlk originally tell Superman he is in his own dimension?
Originally how did Superman get Mxyzptlk to return to his own dimension?
What style of hat does Mxyzptlk usually wear?
What did Mxyzptlk give Luthor in the Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite storyline?
Which super villain temporarily stole 99% of Mxyzptlk’s powers?
When banished to his own dimension, how long is it until Mxyzptlk can return?
Zod
Who created Zod?
What issue was Zod’s first appearance?
In what year was the Zod’s first appearance?
What is Zod’s full name?
What is Zod’s military rank in the Kryptonian Army?
In the Superman: Last Son storyline, who are Zod’s main two companions?
How did Zod survive the destruction of Krypton?
What is the name of Zod and Ursa’s son?
In the New Krypton storyline, what guild is Zod in charge of?
What crime does Zod charge Superman with
?
Doomsday
Who created Doomsday?
What issue was Doomsday’s first appearance?
In what year was the Doomsday’s first appearance?
What planet is Doomsday from?
What was the name of the scientist that turned Doomsday into the mid less beast of rage he is?
What was Doomsday originally known as before he reached Earth?
What was notable about the first time Doomsday faced and easily defeated the Justice League?
Which superhero was responsible for the naming of Doomsday?
After the battle between Superman and Doomsday, who sent Doomsday into space bound to an asteroid?
Who handed Doomsday over to Darkseid to pay Earth’s war debt to Apokolips?
Darkseid
Who created Darkseid?
What issue was Darkseid’s first appearance?
In what year was the Darkseid’s first appearance?
What is Darkseids real name?
What transformed him into the rock like creature he is?
What is the name of Darkseid’s son?
What is Darkseid obsessed by obtaining?
In Final Crisis who is Darkseid’s final host?
Who shoots Darkseid at the end of Final Crisis?
In the New 52, which member of the Justice League has their arm broken by Darkseid?
Bizarro
Who created Bizarro?
What issue was Bizarro’s first appearance?
In what year was Bizarro’s first appearance?
Pre Crisis what colour of kryptonite affected Bizarro like green kryptonite affected Superman?
Apart from Bizarro World what other name did Bizarro’s planet go by?
Post Crisis who is responsible for trying to clone Superman that results in Bizarro?
The more recent Bizarro was created by which Supervillain?
Which of the Freedom Fighter’s did Bizarro kill during Infinite Crisis?
What colour sun does Bizarro create his whole world under?
What does Bizarro often wear around his neck?
Brainiac
Who created Brainiac?
What issue was Brainiac’s first appearance?
In what year was the Brainiac’s first appearance?
What does Brainiac like to collect?
Post Crisis Brainiac was a scientist from which planet?
Early Post Crisis what was the name of the human that contained Brainiac’s consciousness?
Which Kryptonian city did Brainiac shrink?
In the recent Brainiac arc written by Geoff John’s what did Supergirl tell Superman about the Brainiac’s he’d faced up to now?
During this Brainiac story arc when Superman defeats him, what does a rocket fired by Brainac cause to happen?
The defeated Brainiac is sent to a top secret military base, who is assigned to examine him?
Lex Luthor
Who created Lex Luthor?
What issue was Lex Luthor’s first appearance?
In what year was Lex Luthor’s first appearance?
Before balding, what colour hair does Lex Luthor have?
Pre Crisis which character id Lex Luthor blame for him going bald?
Post Crisis Lex Luthor was reinvented and despite still having his remarkable intellect went from a mad scientist to now being portrayed as what?
Lex Luthor contracted cancer due to what?
What global power did Lex Luthor once become?
At the beginning of 52 how does Lex Luthor get every single charge ever aimed at him dropped?
During Blackest Night, what colour ring did Lex Luthor find himself in possession of?
Answers
Prankster
Jerry Siegel and John Sikela
Action Comics #51
1942
Oswald Loomis
The Uncle Oswald Show
WGBS
With elaborate, hi-tec practical jokes
Steel
A discount
Uncle Oley’s Sure Fire Joke Shop
Toyman
Don Cameron and Ed Dobrotka
Action Comics #64
1943
Winslow Schott
Lex Luthor
Cat Grant
Mary
She was actually one of his robotic creations, as was the Toyman that killed Adam Grant
Anton Schott
Dollmaker
Manchester Black
Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke
Action Comics #775
2001
The Elite
English
He gave Superman a stroke
He identified a growth on Manchester Black’s brain and gave Manchester Black a micro concussion
Doomsday
Superman’s secret identity
To force Superman to kill and break his moral code
Livewire
Bruce Timm
Action Comics #835
2006
Leslie Willis
She was a radio shock jock
She can manipulate electricity
The Auctioneer
Nightwing
Jimmy Olsen
A modified costume
Metallo
Robert Bernstein and Al Plastino
Action Comics #252
1959
John Corben
Emmet Vale
A kryptonite heart
Sergeant
General Sam Lane
Lois Lane
Project Steel Soldier
Parasite
Jim Shooter
Action Comics #340
1966
Raymond Maxwell Jensen
Rudy Jones
Janitor
Purple
Lois Lane
Lex Luthor
They banished him to the Phantom Zone
Mongul
Len Wein and Jim Starlin
DC Comics Presents #27
1980
Black Mercy
Warworld
Draaga
Cyborg Superman
Green Lantern, Hal Jordan
Mongul and Mongal
To serve him or die
Mxyzptlk
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Superman #30
1944
The fifth dimension
A jester
By getting him to spell his name backwards
A derby
A piece of red kryptonite that stripped Superman of his powers
The Joker
180 days
Zod
Robert Bernstein and George Papp
Adventure Comics #283
1961
Dru-Zod
General
Ursa and Non
He had been banished to the Phantom Zone
Lor-Zod or Christopher Kent
The Military Guild
Treason
Doomsday
Dan Jurgens
Superman: The Man of Steel #18
1992
Krypton
Bertron
The Ultimate
He did it with one arm tied behind his back
Booster Gold
Cyborg Superman
&nb
sp; Lex Luthor
Darkseid
Jack Kirby
Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #134
1970
Uxas
The Omega Force
Orion
The anti-life equation
Dan Turpin
Batman
Green Lantern, Hal Jordan
Bizarro
Otto Binder and George Papp
Superboy #68
1958
Blue kryptonite
Htrae
Lex Luthor
The Joker whilst he had the powers of Mxyzptlk
The Human Bomb
A blue sun
A crude medal with Bizarro #1 written on it
Brainiac
Otto Binder and Al Plastino
Action Comics #242
1958
Shrunken down cities from throughout the universe
Colu
Milton Fine
Kandor
That they were all the result of a swarm of nano machines sent to locate Superman
It destroys the Kent Farm and causes Jonathan Kent to suffer a fatal heart attack
Lex Luthor
Lex Luthor
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Action Comics 23
1940
Red
Superboy
A billionaire corporate executive
The kryptonite ring he continually wore
President of the United States
He pins the blame on the dead body of Alexander Luthor by saying it was him acting as Lex Luthor
Orange