In 1961 Martin Goodman, the publisher of the small and struggling Marvel, decided to take on DC with their winning trio of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Since then the slugfest has been on. You were either Marvel or DC; the underdog or the conservative; Marvel thought DC drawings were boring, DC thought Marvel’s were brutish and ugly, and many other perceived differences in spite of the fact that the writers and artists (with the exception of Stan Lee) have at some point worked for both companies.
The rivalry continues to the present even though Marvel is now owed by Disney and DC is owned by Warner Bros, and now we’re talking about movies and TV series.
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