Batman Begins and the Mighty Fantastic Four-Who’s Your Favorite?
By Dave Gieber Well, it looks like Hollywood keeps it continual pot ofrevenue filled with, guess what, comic book heroes. BatmanBegins and The Fantastic Four have been duking it out onHollywood and Vine. An age-old comic book company rivalryis yet renewing the heat this year. I guess all of us comicbook aficionados always wonder who would win the battlebetween such and such superheroes. Well at least in the next few months one way to keep scoreis to watch the revenues generated between the recentlyreleased “Batman Begins” and “Fantastic Four”, which wereboth childhood fascinations of mine. Not only are theresuperhero “what ifs” going on here, but which comic bookcompany will stand to gain the most economicsubstantiation? Batman Begins punches the daily time clockat DC Comics and the Fantastic Four was the brainchild ofStan Lee and crew at Marvel Comics. And don’t tell me there is a small comic book hero market.Batman Begins claimed the number one spot in gross revenueon its opening weekend. Hollywood is definitely increasingthe thickness of its silver lining these days with comicbook hero movies. Batman Begins took in almost $49 millionit’s opening weekend. How many mint condition old comicbooks would you have to sell to make that kind of dough?Are we in the wrong end of the comic book world (ha ha)? The rivalry between Marvel and DC used to be a majordividing line amongst the tight knit group of comic bookcollectors. When comic book interest started to decline inthe 1970s, this issue became largely irrelevant. But now asvideo games, online role-playing games and major motionpicture productions are spreading across the globe, theclassic Marvel-DC conflict is springing back to life. Superman is coming back to life on the big screen as wellas Wonder Woman. Marvel has been riding high off theirmajor successes with the X-men and Spiderman. They are nowdigging deep into their catalog of characters and areworking on screen adaptations of Iron Man, the Submariner,Thor and Silver Surfer, among others. Have we entered a newcomic book age that will have to be defined around majormotion pictures? Maybe it could be call the “GreenbackAge”. Do you have another definition? And as computer literate as so many are these days, Marveland DC will have to start developing more online games andvirtual universes of all their characters that you and Iwill be willing to pay a monthly fee to access through ourcomputers and game consoles. Ka-ching, Ka-ching. DC hasalready announced a deal with Sony Online Entertainment andMarvel is working with Vivendi Universal Games. With themassive successes of the X-Men and Spiderman movies, thishas proven that the Marvel characters still have life andrelevance in today’s pop culture. While DC may be playing a bit of catch up, they are quickto point out that they and Warner Bro. have been moresuccessful on the small screen with TV shows like”Smallville” and several animated cartoon series. Andfurther since their TV and film projects are filmed andaired by the Warner Bro. conglomerate, DC gets to keep moreof the profit than Marvel does on their projects. What do we, the consumer public, get out of all this? Well,for one, we get to see our heroes in a more realistic lightthan ever before. We can grab that popcorn and maybe anextra drink and watch our comic book heroes and characterscome to life in a real world setting, at least for a fewhours, and walk out with a little more joy in our hearts.Go out and get immersed in Batman Begins and hold yourbreath for the Fantastic Four. And besides, this newrevelation in Hollywood may just increase the value of ourold mint condition comics. We can only wait and see. Dave Gieber is the owner and editor of a website builtaround one of his childhood passions. Learn the basicessentials to comic book collecting success with thisfree 5-day course: Comic Book Collecting Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dave_Gieber http://EzineArticles.com/?Batman-Begins-and-the-Mighty-Fantastic-Four-Whos-Your-Favorite?&id=83807 local her church up witness must lee to niv both study would bible got online take online come college our worksheets these peter them denies to jesus there jesus could doesn’t her care some
