Superhero Facts

SuperFacts

These are a list of interesting facts about superhero's, from both th Marvel and DC comicbook Universes.

1. It was originally thought that Spiderman would fail as a hero, as most people are afraid of spiders.
2. The second Robim, Jason Todd, was killed by the Joker after readers voted for him to be killed off.
3. Marvel's Luke Cage (1972) was the first black superhero to have his own comic book.
4. There are 6 Green Lanterns from Earth, these are Alan Scott, Hal Jordan, Guy Gardener, John Stewart, Kyle Rayne and Simon Baz.
5. Spiderman received his powers after he was biten by a radioactive spider.
6. Happy Hogan had saved Tony Stark from a car crash, so Tony hired him as his chauffeur.
Green Arrow's Chili defeated both Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter.
The Juggernaut is 140 lbs lighter than the Hulk.
There are over 20 different types of Kryptonite, including Silver, Pink and Purple Spotted Kryptonite.
Dr Connors had to have his arm amputated when he worked as an army surgeon and he injured his right arm.
The Suicide Squad is a covert black-ops government strike team partially made up of imprisoned super-villains who agree to serve as expendable agents on life-threatening top-secret missions for the US Government.
The Young Avengers came together because Iron Lad didn't want to become Kang the Conquerer.
Black Panther, T'Challa, is King of Rwanda and was married to Storm for a time.
The character Bruce Wayne was named in honor of Robert Bruce, a Scottish Patriot, and "Mad" Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War general
The srcond Robin was brought back to life and took on the persona of the Red Hood, an anti-hero who is willing to kill.
Daredevil is Marvel hero who is blind and uses his heightened senses to "see".
Bart Allen, aka the Flash had a Green Lantern tatoo on his left shoulder. However, because of his accelerated healing his body rejected the ink and the tatoo disappeared.
Marvel is home to the fisrt openly gay superhero, Northstar.
Nightcrawler was originallt pithched to DC as a charcter but they felt he looked too demonic. Dave Cockrum then brought the charcter to Marvel where Nightcrawler became part of the X-Men.