In general Spider-Man and games from the same time as Batman were usually just better. Rogues Gallery - Batman. This is probably the closest, but lowkey, Spider-Man’s top rogues are majority from the Lee/Ditko era. Whereas Batman’s have expanded more and more over the years, not just in quantity but quality. Point is, these are the two greatest comic book characters ever, with only Superman, Wonder Woman, and Robin / Nightwing from DC, or Iron Man, Captain America, and Wolverine from Marvel even coming close, and some if these are still very recent in terms of massive popularity thanks to the movies. 1.6K. Recently, several websites have posted articles alleging that One Piece has sold 490 million copies overall, worldwide. This, according to these reports, means that Luffy and his gang have outsold Batman, the stalwart of the American comics industry, who has sold 460 million copies. There are several issues with this statement, and these issues
Supermans problem is that it doesn't have a lot of story to tell. So the odds of making a good Batman story is so much bigger than a Superman one. Which is why it edges out Superman most of the time. Probably why they are trying to bring the two together so Batman stories can be told with Superman around.
Given that Superman & Lois's high budget is the biggest threat to renewal, it can seem like Superman only works on the big screen. Batman, a creature of the night with no powers but money and wits, seems tailor-made for TV. The CW's Arrow was, essentially, a re-skinned Batman that proved so popular it spawned an entire universe. Still, with
How to account for the book selling 22 thousand more issues than Action Comics #1000? Likely, Batman is just more popular. Likely, Batman is just more popular. 8.
While Superman became a hit right away, and soon jumped to radio and film serials, Superman comics hit their first peak in the Silver Age. During that period, writers such as Otto Binder (whose work on Captain Marvel made the character more popular than Superman) used Superman’s amazing abilities as a launching point for brain-bending stories. There are two main factors that account for this: Superman is an alien and has powers, whereas Batman is a human and does not. Superman’s abilities set him over the top as a superhero. He can fly, has heat vision, gets his energy from the sun, and has super strength, and this just scratches the surface. With Matt Reeves' The Batman smashing box office records, it's hard to think of a superhero more popular than the Dark Knight. He became so influential that DC was named after the series in which he debuted: Detective Comics. As a result of Batman's popularity, many other universes, including DC ones, have tried to replicate him. bOYLjd.
