trivia question answers:

1. in the 1990s, Michael Jackson wanted to play spider-man so much,
he reportedly made serious efforts to buy Marvel in order to make it happen.

2. deadpool (aka wade wilson) was designed as a parody
of slade wilson, better known as dc’s deathstroke.

3. sorry, trick question. superman has used all of these wacky powers
at least once in his long history as a dc mainstay.
(comics in the 60s were something else, weren’t they?)

4. ka-zar appeared with namor and human torch in
marvel comics #1 published in 1939. but, he had debuted 3 years earlier
in timely pulp magazine ka-zar #1, making him marvel’s earliest.

5. William Moulton Marston created the systolic blood pressure test
which became a key component of the polygraph or “lie detector test”.
as you know, wonder woman used her lasso of truth to similar effect.