Superheroes
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Marvel has been ranked the #1 comic book company year-after-year for like forever.
DC has been #2 for every year that I can remember.
I know that Marvel has a deeper bench of superheroes.
However, DC has Superman, considered to be the first superhero. They have Batman, the most popular superhero in the country. DC has Wonder Woman, the top female superhero. Together, they make up the holy trinity of comics. Plus, DC had a head start of 25 years, a quarter century, to saturate the marketplace before Marvel came along.
How did Marvel catch up and surpass DC. Is it because they have Spider-man, the most popular superhero worldwide?
DC has been #2 for every year that I can remember.
I know that Marvel has a deeper bench of superheroes.
However, DC has Superman, considered to be the first superhero. They have Batman, the most popular superhero in the country. DC has Wonder Woman, the top female superhero. Together, they make up the holy trinity of comics. Plus, DC had a head start of 25 years, a quarter century, to saturate the marketplace before Marvel came along.
How did Marvel catch up and surpass DC. Is it because they have Spider-man, the most popular superhero worldwide?
It's because when Comics were reinventing themselves in the 1960s after a fallow period for Super Heroes in general they did it by inventing the flawed, human, troubled more realistic characters that lead to Modern Comics taking off. For the longest time DC stuck to cardboard cut out Heroic but simple golden age style heroes.
That's not to say DC doesn't have good characters or stories but they stuck to the simplistic hero archetypes for much longer that Marvel did, and so Marvel had the time to build a huge interconnected universe of beloved, unique and awesome-yet flawed heroes before DC really got moving on deeper more developed and interesting characterization.
For awhile in the late 70s and 80s they weren't that far apart, but DC has really struggled in recent years with so many reboot and reimagining making everything loose focus, clarity depth of storytelling and meaning.
-ZacWilliam, there always have been good characters and good stories from both and will continue to be but Marvel has, more often than DC, in the last few decades imo Made those stories into a coherent and compelling universe.
That's not to say DC doesn't have good characters or stories but they stuck to the simplistic hero archetypes for much longer that Marvel did, and so Marvel had the time to build a huge interconnected universe of beloved, unique and awesome-yet flawed heroes before DC really got moving on deeper more developed and interesting characterization.
For awhile in the late 70s and 80s they weren't that far apart, but DC has really struggled in recent years with so many reboot and reimagining making everything loose focus, clarity depth of storytelling and meaning.
-ZacWilliam, there always have been good characters and good stories from both and will continue to be but Marvel has, more often than DC, in the last few decades imo Made those stories into a coherent and compelling universe.
Its simple, DC has better superheroes, Marvel tells better stories.
Getting caught up here...
Also, I feel like the "superhero" term is getting watered down here to the point that the term "hero" alone feels meaningless.
Even Deadpool didn't like Deadpool in that movie.
Also, I feel like the "superhero" term is getting watered down here to the point that the term "hero" alone feels meaningless.