3 months ago 19th Aug 10:36
While Marvel seems to be having success at the box office in recent years 2008 belongs to DC Comic movies as The Dark Knight, the second Batman film from Christopher Nolan, has dominated the box office smashing record after record.
DC Comics, founded as National Allied Publications began publishing comics in 1934 and became the largest distributors of comics from the late sixties.
Superman made his debut in 1938 and was followed a year later by the first look at the caped crusader Batman. The character first appeared in the Detective Comic in 1938 but due to the character's popularity he was soon given his own title.
The forties was the golden age for DC Comics as the iconic Wonder Woman made it onto the shelves and along with Batman and Superman Wonder Woman was one of the comic's most successful titles.
But these characters have always been an interest and moving them out of the comic book setting seemed to have always been the aim as serials for Batman, Superman and Adventures of Captain Marvel made it onto screens between the forties and fifties.
Just under twenty years after Batman was introduced as a comic book character the caped crusader made it onto the big screen in the first full length adaptation Batman, also known as Batman: The Movie.
But the most successful DC comic movies of the sixties and seventies was Superman, Christopher Reeves' most famous role.
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