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46 free Hard Spider-Man trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This hard Spider-Man trivia quiz is for the reader who knows that Peter Parker's first appearance was in an anthology, not his own title, and wants to be tested on the rest: which issue Gwen Stacy died in, who wrote and drew Kraven's Last Hunt, how much Marvel paid the fan who dreamed up the black costume, why the Comics Code was rewritten because of a Spider-Man story, and what the Japanese live-action Spider-Man's giant robot was called. It also digs into the movies and games: the first film to open above $100 million, the Broadway musical that lost a fortune, and the video game record set by Insomniac. The questions cover six decades of comics (Lee and Ditko, Conway, Stern, Michelinie, Bendis, Slott), the alternate Spider-People (2099, Noir, Punk, Ham, Spider-Gwen, Miles Morales), the villains' first appearances and secret identities, and the retcons that fans still argue about. Nothing here is a giveaway; expect issue numbers, creator names and production details. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and Marvel publication histories, and each question shows its source. All 45 are free, no sign-up. If this is too steep, warm up on our main Spider-Man trivia page or the Spider-Man for kids quiz.
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Q 01Amazing Fantasy #15 was cover-dated August, but on what date that year did it actually go on sale?
June 5
Amazing Fantasy #15 went on sale June 5, 1962, though cover-dated August; cover dates ran months ahead so unsold copies looked fresh on the newsstand longer.
Q 02Which Marvel publisher approved Spider-Man only because Amazing Fantasy was being cancelled?
Martin Goodman
Publisher Martin Goodman disliked the pitch, objecting that people hate spiders, but let Lee run it in Amazing Fantasy's final issue; strong sales led him to order an ongoing series.
Q 03Which artist drew the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15 after Stan Lee rejected Steve Ditko's version?
Jack Kirby
Kirby had also drawn a first attempt at the character that Lee rejected as too heroic. Ditko inked the cover Kirby pencilled.
Q 04Steve Ditko left The Amazing Spider-Man after which issue?
#38
Ditko's last issue was The Amazing Spider-Man #38 (July 1966); by then he plotted the book himself and was not speaking to Lee. John Romita took over with #39 and unmasked the Green Goblin.
Q 05Which 1971 arc, run without the Comics Code seal, forced a revision of the Code's rules on drugs?
#96–98
Amazing Spider-Man #96–98 (1971) ran Harry Osborn's drug addiction without the Comics Code seal, at the request of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Code was revised soon after.
Q 06Who wrote The Amazing Spider-Man #121–122, the two-parter in which Gwen Stacy dies?
Gerry Conway
Gerry Conway wrote The Night Gwen Stacy Died in Amazing Spider-Man #121–122 (1973), with Gil Kane pencilling; the team first considered killing Aunt May before John Romita suggested Gwen.
Q 07Gil Kane's art in The Amazing Spider-Man #121 shows Gwen falling from which bridge, not the George Washington?
Brooklyn
Kane drew the Brooklyn Bridge, with its stone Gothic towers, while the captions called it the George Washington Bridge; later reprints and retellings have gone back and forth between the two.
Q 08Which Spider-Man storyline crossed over all three Spider-Man titles in October and November 1987?
Kraven's Last Hunt
Kraven's Last Hunt ran across Web of Spider-Man, Amazing and Spectacular in late 1987: Kraven drugs and buries Spider-Man for two weeks and wears his costume; DeMatteis first pitched the idea for Wonder Man.
Q 09Which cannibalistic sewer monster does Spider-Man face after digging out of his 1987 grave?
Vermin
Vermin, the rat-like cannibal DeMatteis and Mike Zeck created in Captain America #272, is loosed on a resurrected Spider-Man; Peter had needed Captain America's help to beat him before.
Q 10How much did Marvel pay fan Randy Schueller for the idea of Spider-Man's black costume?
$220
Marvel paid Randy Schueller $220 for his black-costume idea after editor-in-chief Jim Shooter wrote to him in 1982; the suit debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #252 before Secret Wars #8 showed its origin.
Q 11Venom's first full appearance came in which issue of The Amazing Spider-Man?
#300
Venom's first full appearance is The Amazing Spider-Man #300 (May 1988), after a last-page cameo in #299; Michelinie wanted a villain the spider-sense could not detect, since the symbiote knew Peter's signature.
Q 12In the comics, which newspaper did Eddie Brock report for before the symbiote found him?
The Daily Globe
Eddie Brock reported for the Daily Globe until his Sin-Eater scoop collapsed: the man he named, Emil Gregg, was a compulsive confessor, and Spider-Man caught the real killer, Stan Carter.
Q 13Which two creators are credited with Carnage, who first fully appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #361?
Q 21Miguel O'Hara, the Spider-Man of 2099, was created by Rick Leonardi and which writer?
Peter David
Peter David co-created Miguel O'Hara with Rick Leonardi for Spider-Man 2099 #1 (1992); Miguel is an Irish-Mexican geneticist at Alchemax in Nueva York whose DNA is rewritten with spider code.
Q 22Why does Spider-Man 2099 wear that particular costume rather than a design of his own?
His only outfit made of unstable-molecule fabric
The costume, a Día de los Muertos outfit, was the only clothing Miguel owned made of unstable-molecule fabric, which his non-retractable finger and toe talons could not shred.
Q 23Miles Morales made his first appearance in which 2011 comic?
David Michelinie and Mark Bagley
David Michelinie and Mark Bagley created Carnage, the symbiote spawn bonded to serial killer Cletus Kasady, as a darker Venom; Kasady debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #344 and Carnage fully in #361.
Q 14Todd McFarlane's Spider-Man #1 (1990) sold roughly how many copies, helped by multiple variant covers?
2.5 million
Two years later McFarlane co-founded Image Comics and launched Spawn #1, which sold 1.7 million, still a record for an independent comic as of 2007.
Q 15Under what name had Peter Parker's clone been living before he became the Scarlet Spider?
Ben Reilly
The clone lived as Ben Reilly, taking Uncle Ben's first name and Aunt May's maiden name, after leaving New York in 1975's Amazing Spider-Man #149; he returned as the Scarlet Spider in 1994.
Q 16The Jackal debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #129, but in which issue was he unmasked as Miles Warren?
#148
The Jackal is unmasked as Professor Miles Warren in Amazing Spider-Man #148 (September 1975); Warren had appeared as Peter's Empire State University biology professor since #31.
Q 17Which Marvel villain murdered Richard and Mary Parker, according to The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5?
A successor Red Skull
Peter's parents were spies who posed as traitors to infiltrate Albert Malik's organization in Algeria. Richard had been recruited by Nick Fury.
Q 18Which Babylon 5 creator became the main writer of The Amazing Spider-Man in the 2000s?
J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, wrote Amazing Spider-Man from 2001 to 2007, introducing Ezekiel and the spider-totem idea; he publicly disowned how One More Day was resolved.
Q 19How many issues did The Superior Spider-Man run before Amazing returned in 2014?
31
The Superior Spider-Man ran 31 issues from January 2013 to April 2014 after Amazing ended with #700; Otto gave the body back to Peter in its final issues to save Anna Maria Marconi.
Q 20Spider-Gwen's home reality, where Gwen Stacy was bitten instead of Peter, is designated what?
Earth-65
Spider-Gwen comes from Earth-65, introduced in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014) by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez, where Gwen Stacy got the spider bite and Peter Parker died as the Lizard.
Ultimate Fallout #4
Miles Morales debuted in Ultimate Fallout #4 (August 2011), after the Ultimate Peter Parker's death; Bendis said Donald Glover in Spider-Man pyjamas on Community was part of the inspiration.
Q 24Which two abilities does Miles Morales have that Peter Parker lacks?
Camouflage and a paralysing venom strike
Miles can turn invisible through camouflage and deliver a paralysing 'venom strike' by touch, powers Peter never had; Bendis introduced both in his first Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man arc.
Q 25Bendis and Mark Bagley's run on Ultimate Spider-Man broke a Marvel record previously held by whom?
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on Fantastic Four
Bendis and Bagley's 111 consecutive issues beat the 102 that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby produced together on Fantastic Four, the longest unbroken run by one creative team on a Marvel title.
Q 26In the Ultimate universe, the spider that bit Peter had been exposed to what substance?
The OZ compound
The spider carried the OZ compound, Norman Osborn's super-soldier formula; the same drug made Osborn the Ultimate Green Goblin and later explained how Peter survived his apparent death.
Q 27Spider-Man Noir, created by David Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky, operates in New York during which era?
The Great Depression
Spider-Man Noir is set in 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression; the 2009 miniseries by Hine and Sapolsky touched on lynching, fascism and New Deal-era agitation.
Q 28Spider-Punk, the Spider-Man of Earth-138, is an alternate version of which existing Marvel character?
Hobie Brown
Spider-Punk is Hobie Brown, who on Earth-616 is the Prowler; Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel introduced him in Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #10 (January 2015).
Q 29Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, first appeared in a 1983 one-shot titled what?
Marvel Tails
Spider-Ham debuted in Marvel Tails Starring Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (November 1983), alongside Captain Americat and Hulk-Bunny; his 1985 ongoing ran under the Star Comics imprint.
Q 30In Spider-Man: Blue, Peter recounts his romance with Gwen Stacy into a tape recorder on which day?
Valentine's Day
In Spider-Man: Blue (2002), Peter speaks his memories of Gwen into a tape recorder on Valentine's Day; Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale also made Daredevil: Yellow, Hulk: Gray and Captain America: White.