So you think you know comic books?

OK, fans, time to engage those gray cells and test your knowledge about the world of comic books.

I did this last February and I was inundated with hundreds of e-mails. Well, maybe a couple.

Anyway, here is the second annual Comic Guy All-Star Fan Challenge.

And the rules haven't changed: I list 10 comic-related questions and you answer them. You get 10 right, you are smarter than Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Get 7-9 right, and you're sharper than Wolverine's adamantium claws.

Get half correct, and you qualify for membership in the Justice Society of America.

Three to four correct: You probably wouldn't last one round with the Wasp.

Get less than three: You are to report Monday to Superman's Fortress of Solitude and listen to endless recordings of the Gilligan's island theme song.

OK, here we go:

1. Peter Parker got his spider-like abilities after:

A - Spending 48 hours confined in an insect cage

B - Being bit by a Black Widow while cleaning out his attic

C - Being bit by a radioactive spider

D - The Hulk accidentally injected him full of gamma-powered arachnid juice

2. The Flash discovered he could run around the world in a blink of an eye and perform other speed tricks after:

A - A freak lightning storm spilled a bunch of radioactive chemicals all over his body

B - He was left to die in the Sahara desert and learned by necessity to run real fast to find water

C - He enrolled in a speed reading class held by an alien instructor and it just took off from there

D - His girlfriend told him to take steroids because he was always showing up late for dates

3. Green Lantern is able to use his power ring to:

A - Create tables, chairs, airplanes or just about any kind of animate object just by thinking about it

B - Fly from Coast City to New York on a green sofa

C - Get the best view at rock concerts by willing himself a front row seat

D - All of the above

4. A less-than-flattering nickname for DC's Captain Marvel is:

A - "The Flying Goofball"

B - "The Nut in the Red Suit"

C - "The Big Red Cheese"

D - "The Martian Maniac"

5. The mysterious Spectre has the uncanny ability to:

A - Cohabit the same body as a police detective

B - Split himself in two and double date with ease

C - Foretell weather reports, which earned him a job as a television meteorologist

D - Turn himself into a five-legged frog and hop onto the backs of criminals

6. Legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby, whose work on the Fantastic Four and other books made him famous in the 1960s and 70s, was simply nicknamed:

A - "The Man"

B - "The Crown Prince"

C - "Mr. Comic Book"

D - "The King"

7. Hawkman had a strange ability that served him well in fighting crooks. He could:

A - Talk to birds

B - Grow a pair of bird wings

C - Create birds out of thin air just by sheer will power

D - Turn into a raven

8. The Atom, DC's smallest super-hero, got his powers from:

A - Spending too many hours in a reducing machine

B - Being force-fed reduction pills by a mad scientist