Marvel Comics isn’t the only comic book institution celebrating a 75th anniversary this year. A certain Dark Knight also hits the big seven-five.
Created by Bob Kane and the criminally underrated and overlooked Bill Finger, Batman appeared for the first time in Detective Comics
#27 (cover dated May 1939), and he’s been an American icon ever since.
In fact, Batman’s popularity has grown with each passing decade, and
he’s probably one of the most resilient fictional characters of all
time, up there with Sherlock Holmes and Dracula (two creations,
incidentally, that were instrumental in Batman’s conception).
Today, Batman and Marvel stand as the two greatest examples
of how far superheroes have come since the late 1930s, as well as the
benchmarks of the genre’s current popularity.
Because we live in a time when one success can only be
celebrated by pitting it against another in merciless competition, we’ve
decided to ask—as well as answer—the most important question when it
comes to these two pop culture paragons:
Which is the more successful septuagenarian, Batman or Marvel Comics?
[spoiler: this movie had some bearing on the outcome. Interesting. Written by David Goyer.]
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