Marvel Vs. DC Inforgraphic Reveals Which Side Is Winning The Battle At The Box Office

Marvel Vs. DC Inforgraphic Reveals Which Side Is Winning The Battle At The Box Office

Thanks to our friends over at MTV Splash Page, we have a handy inforgraphic which takes us all the way from Batman: The Movie and Howard The Duck to The Dark Knight Rises and Marvel's The Avengers. Why? Well, to find out whether Marvel or DC are winning the box office battle of course!

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By JoshWilding - Oct 01, 2012 08:10 AM EST
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AraxisHT
AraxisHT - 10/1/2012, 8:36 AM
Of course DC wins. They have had all the best movies except Avengers.
RunDTC
RunDTC - 10/1/2012, 8:36 AM
DC-7 good movies
Marvel-11 good movies

oh yeah, that makes sense.

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buzzman
buzzman - 10/1/2012, 8:37 AM
I don't know as this is completely accurate - Marvel's putting out more movies but still maintaining about $200 million per movie while DC is putting out fewer and still averaging about the same. Seems to me more movies producing the same amount would be the winning studio... but hey, who am I?
jbow214
jbow214 - 10/1/2012, 8:39 AM
I think overall in the grand scheme of things, they are pretty much equal. Looks to be about the same amount of duds and studs percentage wise.
AraxisHT
AraxisHT - 10/1/2012, 8:41 AM
@UniBeam11 Average per film of course. The only one that matters.
SpaceGhost
SpaceGhost - 10/1/2012, 8:42 AM
it's like Batman and Friends vs Marvel.

A Shame Really...

Flash and Wonder Woman on the Big Screen are Long Overdue.

I Bet if Marvel had them we'd be on Flash2
and Wonder Woman3 by Now.
Keldor
Keldor - 10/1/2012, 8:42 AM
Marvel kicks DC's ass, lol.
justified1
justified1 - 10/1/2012, 8:42 AM
All i see on DC side is Superman and Batman.

Mavel has a lot more variety.
SiriusC
SiriusC - 10/1/2012, 8:43 AM
Dolph Lundgren's Punisher isn't in this. If they're gonna have Howard the Duck in they might as well have that.
Dynamo
Dynamo - 10/1/2012, 8:45 AM
Where's V for Vendetta?
GoILL
GoILL - 10/1/2012, 8:46 AM
Can't believe that Steel actually made 2 million.
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 10/1/2012, 8:47 AM
Ummm....that's just domestic box office, unless my eyes are not seeing clearly.
Hodor
Hodor - 10/1/2012, 8:47 AM
I want to see this in 3 years. Look at Marvel's planned/in-development (Phase 2) vs. DC's planned/in-development (possibly maybe a Justice League movie).
DC needs to get right.
DocBantam
DocBantam - 10/1/2012, 8:48 AM
one thing is for sure - aside from Batman and Superman, DC movies really suck. Not so Marvel who can count on Spiderman, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, etc etc...even Fantastic Four did a heck of a lot better than anything in DC's backlist!!
sicknimon
sicknimon - 10/1/2012, 8:49 AM
AraxisHT that is the only one that matters eh? Especially since those #s are just averaged out.
sicknimon
sicknimon - 10/1/2012, 8:51 AM
WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL CAPTAIN AMERICA, SPIDERMAN, AND PUNISHER MOVIE?
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 10/1/2012, 8:55 AM
It appears MTV doesn't pay well enough to have competent researchers to get the numbers right. I would think our editors here would qualify it before posting or mention that the numbers are only domestic and not that accurate.
PureLionHeart
PureLionHeart - 10/1/2012, 8:56 AM
Lot of odd omissions.
boyofsteel
boyofsteel - 10/1/2012, 8:58 AM
bottom line, WB is sitting on a gold mine, they can spew out 8 wizard movies in 8 years but can't give us anything but Superman and Batman for the last 50 years
GoILL
GoILL - 10/1/2012, 8:59 AM
@sicknimon

I believe they were never released in theaters in the United States.
CarlXVIGarfield
CarlXVIGarfield - 10/1/2012, 9:01 AM
Domestic?!

The world doesn't count?
gmckoy
gmckoy - 10/1/2012, 9:02 AM
this analysis is incomplete and i believe it only shows domestic box, why not include foreign box for one thing...
Greengo
Greengo - 10/1/2012, 9:02 AM
WTF.

Whoever made this is a Marvelite. lol j/k

But fo real it shoulda had worldwide gross
Tymminator
Tymminator - 10/1/2012, 9:03 AM
This is off as hell. Whatever.
usclerkguy
usclerkguy - 10/1/2012, 9:04 AM
Looks like a Marvel win to me! If you go by total dollars and if they were to add Foriegn Box Office, Marvel would definitely further crush DC's money totals!
SageMode
SageMode - 10/1/2012, 9:06 AM
Pretty much Batman and Superman vs MARVEL.

LMAO, smh.
SageMode
SageMode - 10/1/2012, 9:07 AM
But why are they counting domestic and not worldwide?
usclerkguy
usclerkguy - 10/1/2012, 9:08 AM
Men in Black films could also be added to Marvel's totals!
jbow214
jbow214 - 10/1/2012, 9:08 AM
They are missing a ton of movies on both sides.
Bartman87
Bartman87 - 10/1/2012, 9:12 AM
Dolph Lundgren Punisher wasn't released in theaters in America nor were the other CA and Spiderman films.
usclerkguy
usclerkguy - 10/1/2012, 9:21 AM
MIB- 250,690,539
MIB2 - 190,418,803
MIB3 - 179,020,845
Lazyfan
Lazyfan - 10/1/2012, 9:22 AM
@MrEko Forgot about the first 4 of those but knew the rest were dc films. With those added DC probably has a very much lower Average per film. An those marvel movies were awful lolol.
wvcheesehead
wvcheesehead - 10/1/2012, 9:33 AM
If we are bringing all titles in, we should include the Transformers and GIJoe films under Marvel, as they did have a long run in the comics.
thunderforce
thunderforce - 10/1/2012, 9:34 AM
The world doesn't count ? Typical American POV . Get real people these movies make money all around the world not only in the USA .
Coolkid
Coolkid - 10/1/2012, 9:37 AM
If U take the over-all worldwide collection into consideration... Marvel movies have already crossed $10 Billion... And They've collected as twice as what DC movies have collected worldwide...!!!
jimpinto24
jimpinto24 - 10/1/2012, 9:42 AM
DAMN!!!! I was hoping Marvel would win.
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