Comic Book Trivia for Kids
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60 free Comic Book Trivia for Kids trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This comic book trivia quiz is written for kids. If you have read a Dog Man book, watched a Spider-Man movie, laughed at Garfield or seen Snoopy on his doghouse, you already know a lot of these answers. The questions cover superheroes from Marvel and DC, newspaper strips like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes, European favourites like Tintin and Asterix, Japanese manga such as Astro Boy and Doraemon, and modern graphic novels including Captain Underpants, Bone, Amulet, Smile and Big Nate. Everything here is the kind of thing you learn from actually reading the comics: which planet Superman comes from, what Thor's hammer is called, who draws Dog Man, what kind of animal Snoopy is and why the Ninja Turtles have such fancy names. There are no dark storylines and no obscure dates, just fun facts for readers aged around eight and up. Grown-ups who want something tougher can try our main comic books trivia quiz. Every answer was checked against a reliable source before publishing, so you can trust the results when you play with friends, family or a classroom.
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Q 01Superman was born on which planet before being sent to Earth as a baby?
Krypton
Superman was born on Krypton; his parents Jor-El and Lara launched him toward Earth in a small rocket moments before the planet exploded, and the Kents found the baby in a Kansas field.
Q 02What is the name of the newspaper where Clark Kent works?
The Daily Planet
The Daily Planet, with the giant globe on its roof, is where Clark Kent works as a reporter; in his earliest stories the paper was called the Daily Star.
Q 03What colour is the glowing rock from Superman's home planet that makes him weak?
Green
Green is the colour of the glowing rock that weakens Superman; its radiation cannot pass through lead, which is why he can hide behind lead walls. Red and gold varieties exist in the comics too.
Q 04Batman protects which fictional city?
Gotham
Writer Bill Finger picked the name Gotham instead of New York so readers in any city could imagine it was theirs.
Q 05What is Batman's real name?
Bruce Wayne
Batman is billionaire Bruce Wayne, raised by the family butler Alfred Pennyworth after his parents were murdered in an alley; he famously refuses to use guns.
Q 06Who is Batman's best-known sidekick?
Robin
Robin first appeared in 1940 as Dick Grayson, a young circus acrobat whom Batman trained as his partner; his success set off a wave of kid sidekicks across comics.
Q 07How did Peter Parker get his amazing powers?
He was bitten by a radioactive spider
He was bitten by a radioactive spider at a science exhibit, which gave Peter Parker wall-crawling, super strength and spider-sense; he then built his own web-shooters and sewed his own costume.
Q 08Which two relatives raised Peter Parker in Queens, New York?
Aunt May and Uncle Ben
Aunt May and Uncle Ben Parker raised their orphaned nephew Peter in Forest Hills, Queens; Uncle Ben was killed by a burglar Peter had earlier let run past him.
Q 09What is the name of the island where Wonder Woman and the Amazons live?
Themyscira
Wonder Woman's home is Themyscira, also called Paradise Island, where she is Princess Diana; in the oldest stories her mother, Queen Hippolyta, sculpted her from clay.
Q 10What kind of radiation turned scientist Bruce Banner into the Hulk?
Gamma rays
Gamma rays from an experimental gamma bomb transformed Bruce Banner after he ran onto the test site to push teenager Rick Jones to safety; the angrier the Hulk gets, the stronger he becomes.
Q 11Which billionaire inventor builds a suit of armour and becomes Iron Man?
Tony Stark
Tony Stark built the first Iron Man suit to escape after being captured in a war zone; Iron Man went on to be a founding member of the Avengers in 1963.
Q 12Captain America's most famous piece of equipment is what?
A nearly indestructible shield
Captain America's nearly indestructible shield is made of a vibranium alloy; skinny Steve Rogers became a super-soldier through a special serum and was frozen in ice for decades before waking in modern times.
Q 13What is the name of Thor's enchanted hammer?
Mjolnir
Q 21What breed of dog is Snoopy?
A beagle
A beagle who naps on top of his doghouse, Snoopy was inspired by Spike, a dog his creator had as a boy; in the strip, Snoopy's desert-dwelling brother is called Spike too.
Q 22What is the name of Snoopy's best friend, a small yellow bird?
Woodstock
Woodstock, the small yellow bird, hung around Snoopy for years without a name; in June 1970 he was finally named after the famous 1969 music festival.
Q 23What is Garfield the cat's favourite food?
Lasagna
Lasagna won Garfield over as a kitten: in the strip's backstory he was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant, where he ate so much that the owner sent him to a pet shop.
Mjolnir, Thor's enchanted hammer, lets him fly and command storms, and only those deemed worthy can lift it; his trouble-making adopted brother Loki is his greatest enemy.
Q 14Black Panther is the king of which fictional African country?
Wakanda
Wakanda, T'Challa's hidden kingdom, is rich in the super-strong metal vibranium, which powers its advanced technology and the Black Panther suit.
Q 15How did Barry Allen become the super-fast Flash?
A lightning strike in his laboratory
A lightning strike in his laboratory doused Barry Allen in electrified chemicals and gave him super-speed; he works as a police forensic scientist and keeps his red costume squashed inside a ring.
Q 16Aquaman is the king of which underwater kingdom?
Atlantis
Atlantis is ruled by Aquaman, real name Arthur Curry; as the son of a lighthouse keeper and a mother from Atlantis, he belongs to both the surface world and the sea.
Q 17The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after what kind of people?
Italian Renaissance artists
Italian Renaissance artists Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo gave the Turtles their names, though early comics misspelled the last one as 'Michaelangelo'.
Q 18What kind of animal is Splinter, who teaches the Ninja Turtles ninjutsu?
A rat
Splinter is a mutated rat who raised the four Turtles in the sewers and trained them in ninjutsu; their human friend April O'Neil is often a TV news reporter.
Q 19Who created the comic strip Peanuts, drawing every single strip himself for almost 50 years?
Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz wrote, drew and lettered every Peanuts strip himself from 1950 to 2000; his contract said no one else would ever draw it, so the strip ended when he retired.
Q 20In Peanuts, who always pulls the football away just as Charlie Brown tries to kick it?
Lucy
Lucy van Pelt first yanked the football away in 1952 and kept doing it for decades; her creator took the gag from his own childhood, when kids could never resist pulling the ball away.
Q 24Who created Garfield?
Jim Davis
Jim Davis created Garfield in 1978 after deciding the comics pages had plenty of dogs but no star cats; he named the cat after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis.
Q 25In Calvin and Hobbes, what kind of animal is Hobbes?
A tiger
Hobbes is a tiger, a stuffed toy to everyone else but a walking, talking best friend to six-year-old Calvin; Calvin's alter egos include Spaceman Spiff.
Q 26Who created Calvin and Hobbes and refused to let the characters become toys or cartoons?
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson drew Calvin and Hobbes from 1985 to 1995 and turned down almost all merchandising, believing that selling the characters would undermine the strip's integrity.
Q 27Tintin is a young reporter from which country?
Belgium
Belgium is home to Tintin and to his creator Georges Remi, who signed his work Hergé: the French pronunciation of his initials reversed, R.G.
Q 28What is the name of Tintin's faithful dog?
Snowy
Snowy, a white wire fox terrier, is Milou in the original French; the series' creator borrowed the nickname of a girlfriend, Marie-Louise.
Q 29In the Asterix books, what gives the villagers the strength to fight off the Roman army?
A magic potion
The magic potion brewed by the druid Getafix gives temporary superhuman strength; Obelix fell into the cauldron as a baby, so its effects on him never wear off.
Q 30Asterix and his friends are Gauls fighting against the army of which Roman leader?
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar's Romans occupy all of Gaul in the stories, set around 50 BC, except one small village of indomitable Gauls that keeps holding out against his legions.