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1. DC's "Omega Men" no. 3 (June 1983) marked the first appearance of Lobo, an over-the-top character who was specifically created to be a parody of an extremely popular Marvel Comics character. Which one?
2. DC's silver age Flash, Barry Allen, died in "Crisis on Infinite Earths" no. 8 (November 1985). A few years later, a Marvel comic paid homage to this milestone character by having him appear in a thinly disguised form, winning a huge super-speedster race and being referred to as "Buried Alien." Which title featured this unusual (and techinically unofficial) appearance of Barry Allen?
3. John Byrne is a writer/artist who has done extensive work for both Marvel and DC. In 1990, he strongly suggested with two pages of art and script that, due to some interdimensional gymnastics, a certain Marvel character and a certain DC character were actually the same person! Which ones?
4. In "The Avengers" no. 85 (March 1971), writer Roy Thomas introduced a team of super-beings called the Squadron Supreme. These super-beings were rather obviously designed to be analogues of DC Comics' Justice League of America. Which of the following statements is NOT accurate regarding the Squadron Supreme?
5. From the late 80's through the mid-90's, DC Comics proudly published "The Sandman," a literate, intricate monthly series written by Neil Gaiman that primarily focused on The Endless, seven godlike beings who embodied certain concepts that were part and parcel of the human condition.
One of the Endless was Death, who generally appeared as a "goth girl," and spent most of her time doing exactly what you would expect: gathering/guiding the souls of the recently departed. In 1994, she made a surprise appearance in an issue of a Marvel comic book. Which one?
6. In the early 80's, DC's "The New Teen Titans" introduced a new character named Terra, a superhuman who wound up being far less benevolent than she originally seemed. Writer Marv Wolfman has stated on several occasions that Terra was created solely because of the immense popularity of a certain Marvel character. Which one?
7. As of February 2006, there have actually been numerous single-issue collaborations between Marvel and DC in which characters from the two separate "universes" have interacted. Which is NOT one of these collaborative efforts?
8. In 1996, dreams finally came true for many longtime fans of both Marvel and DC: the two companies agreed to co-publish a mini-series (entitled, predictably enough, "Marvel vs. DC") in which the characters from the two universes would not only interact, but face each other in combat. Several "title bouts" were designed, pitting flagship characters against each other in fights that many fans had only dreamed about ever seeing on the printed page.
In almost all cases, there was a clear winner in each "title bout." One match-up, though, turned out to be a draw. Which one?
9. As a clever finale to the "Marvel vs. DC" mini-series, the two universes were briefly merged into something new, called "Amalgam Comics." For a week or two, fans were presented with comic books featuring the adventures of characters who embodied the personas, powers, costumes, and histories of multiple iconic characters from the two disparate universes that had been kind of "smushed together".
Which "amalgamation" did we NOT see during this period?
10. The first major Marvel/DC crossover was "Superman vs. Spider-Man", back in "Marvel Treasury Edition" no. 28 (1976). Which character did NOT appear in that milestone issue?
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