About This Quiz
It's the ultimate superhero showdown. Whose side are you on? Take the quiz to see if you're on Team Batman or Team Superman.Superman's parents sent him to Earth in an escape pod because his home planet Krypton was dying.
Bob Kane is co-creator of DC Comics and is credited with creating Batman with writer Bill Finger.
That would be Batman. Superman first showed up in 1938 in Action Comics No 1.
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The copy, which is said to be better than any known copy of the comic, sold to an anonymous buyer for more than $3.2 million.
Bruce Wayne, Batman's true identity, takes in Dick Grayson after he witnesses a mafia boss kill Grayson's parents to extort money from the circus that employed them. Dick eventually becomes Bruce Wayne's partner in crime, Robin.
The movie has a PG-13 rating. However, the Blu-ray edition of Batman v Superman scored an R rating for sequences of violence.
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Superman is also known as the Man of Steel.
Batman also went by The Caped Crusader.
Batman also slayed two vampires, three werewolves and a few monsters.
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Zack Snyder also directed "Man of Steel."
As a child Bruce Wayne witnessed the murders of his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne.
In 1985 DC hired Marvel writer John Byrne to retool Superman. The result was "Superman: Man of Steel."
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"Man of Steel" was actually the first live-action Superman movie that did not include Jimmy Olsen.
Oscar-winning actors Marlon Brando and Russell Crowe have both played Jor-El.
"The Bizarro Jerry" is the 137th episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld."
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Rao was about 50 light-years from Earth and much larger.
Bane breaks Batman's back in "Batman: Knightfall" Part 11.
Catwoman appeared first in "Batman No. 1" in 1940. The Penguin appeared in 1941, and the Riddler appeared eight years later in 1948.
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The Phantom Zone is where Kryptonian criminals are exiled for their crimes.
Jax-Ur was banished for creating forbidden experiments with nuclear rockets that destroyed one of Krypton's moons.
In "Superboy No. 124" Lana Lang gets a ring that gives her insectlike abilities. She decides to use her new powers to become the superhero Insect Queen.
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Ace the Bat-Hound was the canine crime-fighting partner of Batman in the 1950s and 1960s. Superman's dog Krypto first appeared in March 1955.
Doomsday, who was created by a deranged scientist on Krypton, made his first full appearance in this comic.
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will be the first time the two superheroes share the big screen together in a live-action film.
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Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Flash and Cyborg are all in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." The Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter, however, are not.
It was in a 1943 film serial called "Batman."
Both Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson created chilling portrayals of the Joker. Willem Dafoe has never acted in the role.
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There are five different types of Kryptonite: green k, red k, gold k, blue k and white k, all with different effects on Kryptonians and humans.
During World War II and the top-secret Manhattan Project, the U.S. War Department demanded that DC delay a comic with Superman’s archenemy, Lex Luthor, launching an attack with what he called an "atomic bomb."
His real identity was also revealed to the world in "Action Comics No. 41" on June 3, 2015.
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