The Marvel and DC franchises are two of the most popular comic book and movie companies. Being rivals has made choosing a side very difficult. With countless comic books in their past, but eventually, every fan must choose a side. The story of mythical heroes with extraordinary powers saving their kin from villains dates back to ancient history. The Greek Scribe Homer gave us earthly warrior heroes battling with one-eyed monsters and women with snakes for hair. In the Middle Ages, the enduring tale
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the diversity of Guardians of the Galaxy Super heros, ear piercing sound effects, and sub par acting are all qualities bonded together to create the infamous Marvel movie. Marvel continually pushes the boundaries of overkill. However, Guardians of the Galaxy soars beyond the cliches and expectations of the typical Marvel production. A gang of misfits that are brought together ultimately by crime, are now held accountable for the fate of the galaxy. This may seem like a typical plot line
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Super heroes have always been an feat in the American culture. Super heroes have been around for such a long time, maybe 10 years, or 100, or even 100000000, who knows? But with every super hero, comes a super villain. There are a lot of super villains but none of them compare to my favorite anti-hero, The Joker. First of all, The Joker is a sick twisted soul who is the revival of BatMan. Joker would do anything to get in the way and kill BatMan for his own cruel and evil plans to take over
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ORTER’s Five Forces Analysis: Buying Power of Buyer’s: In Indian market the buying power of the consumer or the buyers is high. As there are a lot of other comic books available in the market, so the buyers can easily switch over to other comic publications. The cost factor of available comic publications makes it easy for the consumers to switch from one comic to the other. Generally comics with 40 to 50 pages are priced between Rs. 15 to Rs 20. As done by the major players like Raj comics
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which was now known as Marvel Comics. In order to compete with DC comics and their new Justice League of America comics, Marvel instructed Lee to create a new comic series. With this, Stan Lee created the Fantastic Four in 1961. After this, a multitude of new characters were created by Lee. The Hulk, Thor, the X-men, and Spider Man were all creations of Stan Lee (Stan Lee, 2013). Stan Lee was promoted to editorial director and publisher in 1972 after his characters made Marvel highly successful. Even
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JIM LEE When looking at this image I notice that both characters represent some form of power. Jim Lee does this by giving them very upright postures to symbolize dominance and very overdeveloped muscles to really show how much power and force these two characters wield. Jim Lee uses very intense shading to define the muscles and indentations on the bodies. This is effective because it seems as though Jim Lee was trying to create the ideal human in this alternate universe. Jim Lee uses two very
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asdawdawdaBatman in popular culture Since his introduction, Batman has become one of the most famous comic book characters, and is known even to people who do not read the comics. In addition to DC's comic books, he has appeared in movies, television shows, and novels. Batman is known as being an unusually (though not uniquely) grim superhero, particularly for a Golden Age character. He is driven by vengeance, and wears a frightening costume to scare criminals. The contrast to characters like Superman is
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Are we waving goodbye to the superheroes? We all know them, and we all love them. But the era of the superhero movies are maybe coming to an end. Why is that? And will we no longer be looking at buff men and women dressed in slim tights and colourful capes? A dominating and very unique genre of movies saw it’s first light of the day back in the 00’s. It all started with the Batman-movie who was published in 2002 and became a massive success. If we look at the cold facts we can see, that
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We all know that superheroes are mere results of the imagination of creative artists. These fictional characters possess super powers that are incredible. It would be amazing to have them in the real world. Unfortunately, no matter how hard people pray for these characters’ reality, they will only be for the peoples’ entertainment. But, as I reflected about this, I realized that these superheroes have a special purpose: to strengthen people’s moral values. One great example of a superhero that must
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Popular Literature SOC/105 03/25/2012 Popular American Literature The comic book has been a source of entertainment for over sixty years, often called a funny book, comic paper, or comic magazine. It’s a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form as well as including brief descriptive prose. The first comic book appeared in the United
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