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It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s Superman! The Man of Steel made his first comic book appearance 86 years ago, on April 18, 1938, and the latest DC Comics movie, Joker: Folie à Deux hits

theaters Oct. 4. How much do you remember about Superman, Catwoman, Batman, The Joker, and the rest of the DC Universe? Put your trivia superpowers to the test!

True or false: Superman hails from the planet Krypton but was raised by human parents in Florida.

Just before his home planet exploded, Superman’s parents put him in a rocket bound for Earth. It crashed near the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, where farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent

found the alien infant and raised him as their own.

True or false: Superman and Supergirl are siblings.

Because they have similar origin stories and identical superpowers, Superman and Supergirl might seem like siblings, but they’re actually cousins. While Superman was sent to Earth from

Krypton as a baby, Supergirl was sent as a teenager. On her way there, her spaceship became stuck in a meteorite made of kryptonite. The Kryptonians placed her into a state of suspended

animation for the journey, which is why Superman looks older than Supergirl even though he’s actually younger.

Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were founding members of which famous crime fighting team?

Titans

The Justice League of America is the most famous superhero team in the DC Universe. Although it has had many incarnations, it made its first appearance in 1960 in issue #28 of DC’s The Brave

and the Bold. In that comic book, the Justice League’s original members — which also included Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter — battle a giant alien starfish who wants

to take over the world.

Which of these DC Comics villains is NOT a Batman nemesis?

The Batman comic books are known as much for their nefarious villains as they are for their titular hero. Among the most famous Batman villains are the Joker, the Penguin and the Riddler,

not to mention Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Scarecrow, Bane and Two-Face. Billionaire brainiac Lex Luthor, however, is Superman’s archnemesis.

True or false: Wonder Woman’s primary weapon is the golden Lasso of Truth.

Also known as the Lasso of Hestia, the lasso was allegedly forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of craftsmanship and metallurgy. Unbreakable and infinite in length, the lasso compels anyone

who’s roped by it to tell the truth — which makes sense, because Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston, also was the inventor of the modern lie detector test.

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