Well one opinion -- Superman is the first -- tells us more about how the genre spread, became popular, and directly inspired others. It does so with...
DC still has Young Justice and the Harley Quinn series. The animated movies are a mixed bag but if Marvel does surpass them (and that's a big "if"),...
Forget Batman, it would ruin the majority of heroes in fiction. When I was a kid, Joe Mannix and Jim Rockford averaged a conk on the noggin per show....