Marvel vs DC - Copycat | 3

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As Marvel’s richer storylines captivate more readers, DC just can’t keep up, or fully understand Marvel’s success. They even try directly copying Marvel’s style, but go about it in the worst way. Just when it looks like DC’s days at the top are numbered, they throw one final Hail Mary that steals away one of Marvel’s finest artists.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Business Wars ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:06.6	It is the mid-1960s, and DC Comics is in trouble.
0:11.8	The powerful publisher of Superhero Comics has recently been bloodied by an unlikely
0:16.0	challenger.
0:17.0	It's been a few years since the once more of unmarval comics launched several new Superhero
0:22.8	titles.
0:24.4	Its sales are exploding.
0:26.9	DCs are slowing, despite having some of the most well-known fictional characters on the planet,
0:33.5	including Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.
0:37.1	In the DC Universe, something is very wrong, and they are desperate to stop the hemorrhaging
0:42.8	sales and stave off potential ruin.
0:45.3	So DC does what any large bureaucratic organization would do.
0:50.6	It calls a meeting.
0:52.8	Its executives, editors, and others gather in a spare conference room on the 10th floor
0:57.2	of its corporate Manhattan headquarters to try and figure out what Marvel's doing that
1:02.2	DC isn't.
1:04.6	Someone tax a few of Marvel's covers to the walls.
1:07.7	Another spreads some Marvel comics across the table.
1:10.3	The head of DC, Irwin Dunn, and Feld calls the meeting to order.
1:13.8	OK, OK, everyone.
1:15.8	Let's get to work.
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