Reply #48: Good comparison, actually.

[Spider Jerusalem]

Marvel is like Fox in that: both specialise in glitzy technicolor pap with lots of teen angst that a lot of people mistake for quality entertainment.

Marvel can't compare with DC. DC, for the past few decades now, has been THE mainstream comics publisher taking risks, pushing the envelope of what can be done with the medium, allowing writers and artists to produce serious, complex, intelligent, ADULT stories. Published by DC, since the mid-80's: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (written by Frank Miller); Batman: Year One (written by Frank Miller); Watchmen (written by Alan Moore); V For Vendetta (written by Alan Moore); Sandman (written by Neil Gaiman); Transmetropolitan (written by Warren Ellis); and many others...all of these are among the best and most seminal works in comics in the past 20 years. Marvel is NOT in the running, sorry. (And their superheroes aren't as good, either.)