1. Comics Quiz
Quizotic 2011
St. Stephen’s College

6. • X is a 1996 film based on an eponymous comic
book series. Its set in 2017 during the “Second
American Civil War” where X owns the
Hammerhead, a nightclub in Steel Harbor —
"the last free city" in a United States ravaged
by the civil war — and brings in extra cash by
hiring out as a mercenary and bounty hunter. It
was nominated for 6 Razzies and Y won the
Razzie for the Worst New Star. Identify X and Y

9. • On Mythbusters’ “Superhero Hour”, it was
tested whether when you punch someone
while wearing Y it would make an imprint on
them, as it does in the X comic. The myth was
“busted” when it was shown that the amount
of force required to do so would be enough to
crush a human skull. Identify X and Y.

14. • In 2029, the world is connected by a global
electronic network. Tokyo has a network security
force called Section 9, which is on a mission to
arrest the elite hacker known as the Puppet
Master. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg officer,
leads the investigation and finds that the Puppet
Master hacks human minds and leaves victims
with implanted fake memories. Kusanagi
questions her own existence as an artificial
construct, wondering if there is something more.
• This forms the plot of an anime film based on a
manga by Masamune Shirow. Name the
manga/film

15. • X was founded by Detroit, Michigan-born
comics fan Y. When he moved to San
Diego, California in 1970, he organized a one-
day convention on March 21, 1970 "as a kind of
'dry run' for the larger convention he hoped to
stage." Y went on to be associated with the
convention as president or manager, variously,
for many years until becoming estranged from
the organization. Identify X and Y.

16. • X is a biography of Y’s father. Polish Jew and
Holocaust survivor. It alternates between
descriptions of his life in Poland before and
during the Second World War and his later life
in New York City. It is the only comic book ever
to have won a Pulitzer Prize : "the Pulitzer
board members ... found the cartoonist's
depiction of Nazi Germany hard to classify.“
Both X and Y.

18. • X is a comic strip written by a certain Narayan
Debnath for the magazine Shuktara. The hero
of the story is a superman-like character, with a
well-built body and enormous strength. He is
so strong that he can stop a train, run through
a wall breaking it to pieces, kill whales and
sharks barehanded, and even bullets cannot
pierce his chest. He has a great appetite and
sometimes has a whale for his breakfast.

20. • Vinay was a high school student when he saw
some criminals kill his classmate during exams. He
took an oath to revenge her death. He found the
revolver that was used as the murder weapon. The
killer was none other than the head of police
himself. To save himself from the law, he wanted
to recover that revolver and for that he even tried
to kill Vinay. He was rescued by his maternal
Uncle, Prof. K.K., and was brought to his lab,
where the monster Bufalo attacked them. Prof.
K.K. revealed the secret that he had made a
costume that could give him superpowers. Vinay
wore the costume and became X.

23. • X is a financier who appears in the Tintin
adventure “The Shooting Star”. As the owner of a
major banking concern and a petroleum firm
called Golden Oil, he uses his wealth and
resources to attempt to beat Tintin and his friends
in the race to find a recently fallen meteorite. In
the original edition of The Shooting
Star (published during World War II) he was
referred to as Blumenstein, and his bank was
explicitly stated as being located in New York. In
later editions Herge relocated X to a fictitious
country called San Rico.

25. • As a child he used to run behind the open
trams of British troops passing through
Bombay port during the Second World
War. One day, a soldier threw a Walt Disney
comic- book for the running children and child
X was lucky enough to find a ripped page of
that comics which had Mickey Mouse
illustrated on it. He started trying to draw
characters like he saw in the comic book and
went to create the first Indian comic hero
“Bahadur”. Give me X.

27. • He first won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 at the
age of 23 and used to work for “Stars and
Stripes”, the American soldiers newspaper. The
most famous characters created by him are
Willie and Joe. In fact Willie made it to the
cover of the TIME magazine in 1945. He also
designed the cover for the 1958 issue of the
TIME magazine.