Superman is DC's icon and all. But come to think of it. DC seem to invest more on Batman. The movies tell it all. Batman's franchise sells better than Superman. Why, DC means Detective comics, Batman was the star of that comic publications(Superman was in Action comics).
Is Clarke Kent losing out to Bruce Wayne? Is the Dark Knight pulling the strings DC " in the dark"? Is the Man of Steel is being outdone by his greatest friend?
In the Golden Age Superman was supreme and by the time the silver age rolled around Batman had sort of faded into the background
Bats got a shot in the arm thanks to wickedly awesome Adam West and gained some expousure but by the 3rd year of that rn Batman became a comical figure.DCs image faded with their most mainstream image being "Shiver" the Superfriends[check Seanbaby.com for deails]
Superman movies came out DUN DUN Supermans poplarity grows while Adam West is shot out of cannons at car shows.Keep in mind Batman never got as bad as the TV show years earlier but he sint edxactly big time anymore.Thing is a bunch more really really bad Superman movies follow and soon he starts looking as bad as TV Bats
Frank Miller gives Bats his nards back and in a move that at the time was probably shoxking beyond beleif Batman BEATS Superman.Nowadays its not a big deal heck most people think Bats trashes him every mprning over his Bat-Cherrios but at the time it was like toppling God
Late 80s rolls around Superman seems ancient and outdated Bats still has nards though and competes in an age where Cable didnt seem like a bad character .So Bats gets a wickedly awesome movie using his best villain efficiently played by Jack Nickolson ends up a Mega-hit then despite a slew of movies of decresing quality things like BTAS keep him in peoples minds.It took Sups YEARS to get his own series and it was lumped right behind Batman and never really was as good
DC has gotten more profit out of Batman lately so hes their main guy NOW.Superman meanwhile has basically done nothing significant in quite a long time.Wheres his Death in the Family DKRs Killing Joke etc Caliber stories?Best they have done is bad marketing ploys like his "death" turning him Blue or sub-par stories like OWAW.Its all what they put into a character and Superman has essentially been left out to dry and lives only his iconic "Heard before you were born" name value alone
Because of all that yeah id say Batman is DCs man character now.Its not because Bats is any better than Superman inhearently its just becaause circumstances have left one"popular" thus more eligable for promotion and the other not and ignored but in comfortable mediocrity[Thus DC diesnt need to risk making him any better]
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Batman is in American pop culture, that's about as far as he goes.
Superman, on the other hand, is in the culture of nearly the whole world.
He's the "perfect" American, that's what some people use as a reference to what an American should be. Superman represents American, and all it's ideals.
Batman just is a but of a joke, no one jokes about Superman.
Superman is in the phsych of billions.
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Man Evil Cap is a walking library.
Wolverine: ideal fanboy material, but unimpressive to many long term comic readers who notice his inconsistencies, and understand he's not supposed to be there.
Superman would be in the dictionary because it's derived from the Marxist-inspired German word Uber-Mensch (Superman, or Over-man for you literalists). This doesn't necesarily mean Supes is bigger than Bats, but I would agree he's known more widely than any other super-hero. Bats has more series going right now, and makes more money at the moment in comics than Supes, but Kal will always be DC's main guy.
Regardless if he ever sells another issue again,
Superman is in the conciousness of the entire world.
He IS the most popular comic character of all time.
Wolverine is, unfortunately, a cool character whom the fanboys have
latched on too. These Wolvie-fanboys all HATE Spiderman,
because he's Marvel's #1. That's why they ALWAYS trash Spidey.
The Wolvie-Fanboys have written, cried and screamed to Marvel to
make him more popular and more powerful.
Unfortunately, Marvel complied.
That's why he's so wildly inconsistent now.
THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES:
The advent of the Fanboy seems to have started in the 1990's.....
This was a time of great trouble and catastrophe in the comic world.
There was much suffering then.
Marvel couldn't write their way out of a paper bag then.
They went bankrupt.
Tons of Marvel Comic fans stopped buying due to the lousy quality....
Except for a peculiar tribe of people.....
This tribe bought much X-Men and worshipped the great hairy god, Wolverine.
This tribe grew large and kept buying X-Men & Wolverine.
This tribe, however, never bought or read anything other than the
poorly written X-books of that era. The tribe knew nothing outside of
their small small world. In-breeding began within this tribe and the
offspring became.....stupid.
This tribe later became known as..........Fanboys.
The rest of the comic fans of the world remember the dark and grim
days of Marvel Comics during the 1990's.
The Fanboys, however, view this period as their "Golden Age of Comics."
And this is why today there are many Fanboys who.........
know not outside of what they read, know not what they read,
and generally seem to know not about anything.
Gender: Male Location: Kicking pigs out of the screen.
lol, regardless spidey's the most POPULAR,hero of all time simply because he has the most developed character,and we feel what he feels and his life sucks, like most of ours.
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Jun 14th, 2005 08:26 AM
I think Batman probably connects a lot better to newer generations.
.So Bats gets a wickedly awesome movie using his best villain efficiently played by Jack Nickolson ends up a Mega-hit then despite a slew of movies of decresing quality things like BTAS keep him in peoples minds.It took Sups YEARS to get his own series and it was lumped right behind Batman and never really was as good
