DC Vs. Marvel

[UnderdogDJLSW]

As a kid I collected Superman, Batman, JLA, and Spider-Man. I loved to watch all of the Filmation cartoons, the Spidey cartoon, and the 60s FF. There was also the Adam West Batman, Adventures of Superman, and Superfriends. I liked those shows because they were fun and there was no angst. The comics I have from the 70s are fun, too. Even if they occasionally had an adult plot. The DC titles outnumbered the Marvel ones so I'd say my preference was DC back then. Now I just collect DC, but find I have to hide the titles from my kids, because they can sometimes be a bit gruesome. But DC has Tiny Titans, so they still win over Marvel!

[drmego]

Stan Lee put romance and soap operas into the 60s Marvels, making
them full of introspection and angst.

DC characters are clean cut, well-mannered adults who are secure
in their identities and abilities.

Since the late 70s, the differences blurred as creators went back
and forth between the companies, so that now they are all about
the same. The realization of this came during the Avengers/JLA books
when I got the feeling both groups were from the same publisher.

Filmation did a better quality job on the cartoons than Grantray-Lawrence,
at least Hanna-Barbera did the FF well.

[Cosmicman]

In my opinion of years of reading, Marvel has the best villains and DC has the best heroes.

[saildog]

But DC has Tiny Titans, so they still win over Marvel!

Amen...my Sister made merciless fun of me for reading comics as a kid, but I'll be danged if she ain't all into that book because her Daughter is into it.

Now, they are into recording/watching anything from the DC Animated Universe and my Niece has something I never had as a kid...subscriptions!

[MEMEGO]

I am DC Man all the way, Batman, Superman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman what a Hottie. However I do like some marvel. But as I said I am a DC man all the way.

[vulcan2074]

It's been DC all the way since I was a youngster. I don't hate Marvel, I just Love DC. The characters, costumes and colors are beyond Fantastic. The stories I read growing up were the best in my opinion
Sammy

[saildog]

In my opinion of years of reading, Marvel has the best villains and DC has the best heroes.

I don't think you could sum it up any better than that. All you have to do is look at a character like Submariner to know that Marvel always flirted with the line between good and bad and DC has pretty much held true. With DC (for most of it's history) Good is good and Bad is bumbling.

[generic]

As a kid, I never thought about there being a difference between DC and Marvel - they were all in the same category of "Superheroes" to me. Probably because my Mego Spiderman and Captain America could ride in the Batmobile just like Batman and Robin (and Uhura and Kirk for that matter). I've always loved Batman. He may not have always been my favorite, but he's the only guys to ALWAYS be in my top 5. Now, 1970s Batman comics are pretty much the only comics I'm reading. I've also always liked Spiderman, but not as much as Batman. I guess Batman just seemed like such a bad mofo. He doesn't have any super powers, but there he is right next to Superman fighting whatever you can throw at him. I always liked that. For years I considered myself a Marvel fan who liked Batman because he seemed more of a Marvel guy to me. It's only been in recent years that I've realized that I'm a DC fan who likes Marvel mostly when it's reminding me of Batman.

[theressa]

When I was younger, my brother bought mainly Marvel comics. I used to read his and they kinda rubbed off onto me.
He always told me of how Mom tossed his Spidey #1 in the fire!
We both grew up with the Marvel regulars, so.......

Make mine Marvel!!

[starsky]

the filmation cartoon shows really did it for me. they were aired very consistently thus the bias towards dc. impressionable kid that i was. the only marvel tv show that aired regularly was spiderman which i loved as well.

[Mego Milk]

But DC has Tiny Titans, so they still win over Marvel![/QUOTE]

AW YEAH TITANS!!!!!

[Captain]

I prefer DC. The characters are more varied and have a deeper backstory, secret identity wise...especially in their glory days of the Golden Age and the later Silver age. Marvel, once you get past Captain America (my favourite Marvel character) and maybe even spidey, are all the same under the mask. Angst ridden teenagers/adults with mutant powers. The powers differentiate them, but there mannerisms seldom do. They are interchangeable.
Sadly, nowadays, all comic characters seem written this way.

I grew up with the Adam West Batman, Filmations Superman,Aquaman, and DC Heroes cartoons, Spiderman (67) and the Mighty Marvel Marching society toons. Oddly enough, these are my favourite heroes (including Cap, Spidey, Namor and Iron Man) so I have no doubt those shows had an early influence on things. Plus, I could read before I went to school and since Batman was my favourite character on tv, I always wanted the Bat books. I just happened to be lucky enough to grow up in the era of 48 pg, 60pg, and 80pg comic books, with a ton of classic old reprints from the Golden Age Dc crew. Again, that influnced me a lot I'm sure.

[Brazoo]

I grew up on Marvel and thought DC was silly.

Marvel characters lived in our world and had real world problems, they aged and grew as characters. It made the serialization more compelling. Marvel books held the illusion that you were going to miss something historic every month if you didn't keep up. UNTIL...

I left comic collecting at age 14 or 15, I can't remember off-hand exactly how old I was, but I DO remember it was exactly after John Byrne had left his run of the Fantastic Four in the 80s. I didn't know who John Byrne really was until much later, all I knew was all the characters I had been following suddenly became the same characters they were when I started. I realized that part of my interest in Marvel comics was not only knowing what The Thing (for example) would do to beat a bad guy - it was what will Marvel would do if The Thing became a well adjusted and happy person. When Byrne left I realized the trick - The Thing would NEVER become a well adjusted happy person. He really didn't grow! The illusion was shattered for me, I didn't have to buy comics every month to follow what would happen, because NOTHING was actually going to happen.

In my early 20s I got back into comics. "Kingdom Come" was a major influence in getting me interested again - it got me interested in DC comics for the first time. I realized how much better the stoic and more iconic characters of the DC were suited to fitting each era. It was a real treat catching up on Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze/Modern age DC characters, because not only did the characters and stories fit each era perfectly, I didn't have to read a hundred other books just to follow a story. A good issue could stand up on it's own, and you could pick one up from any era and get a different kind of pleasure with it. DC didn't need use the albatross of it's universe's continuity to make a great book. Superman, unless you're reading an "Imaginary Story" or an Elseworlds, will never reach middle age, and that's fine - Spider-Man won't reach middle-age either, but Marvel pretends that he will, and personally I think Marvel's books suffer because of that.

[PNGwynne]

DC versus who?

Seriously, to me DC is classic, with characters that are like mythology, archetypal...

I don't dislike Marvel, but it doesn't engage me like DC does...

[clemso]

Why do you like DC characters more than Marvel characters? Everybody's opinion is wanted so please comment.

I don't, I've been a Marvel fan most of my life and I just relate to the Marvel stories better than DC which in the 70s seemed a little on the silly side.
Marvel heroes had a cool factor for me ... But relating your question to Mego dolls, then I prefer the DC characters, their costume design just work better.
Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are 3 of the top most iconic Super hero characters.