Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC Audiobook (Free)

The first in-depth, behind the scenes book treatment of the rivalry between your two comic book giants.

THEY ARE THE TWO TITANS FROM THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY–the Coke and Pepsi of superheroes–and for a lot more than 50 years, Marvel and DC have already been locked within an epic fight for spandex supremacy. At stake isn’t just product sales, but cultural relevancy and the hearts of millions of followers.

To numerous partisans, Marvel is now on top. But also for much of the early 20th century, it was DC that was the undisputed about Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-season Fight between Marvel and DC head, having released the American superhero genre with the 1938 publication of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel’s Superman strip. DC’s titles offered millions of copies every year, and its iconic characters were familiar to nearly everyone in the us. Superman, Batman, Question Woman–DC had all of them.

And then in 1961, an upstart firm arrived of nowhere to smack mighty DC in the chops. With the publication of Fantastic Four #1, Marvel changed the way superheroes stories had been performed. Writer-editor Stan Lee, performers Jack Kirby, as well as the talented Marvel bullpen subsequently unleashed a string of amazing new creations, including the Avengers, Hulk, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Man.

Marvel’s rise forever break up fandom into two opposing tribes. All of a sudden the most informing query you could talk to a superhero enthusiast became ‘Marvel or DC?’

Slugfest, the initial publication to chronicle the annals of this epic rivalry right into a single, in-depth narrative, is the story of the greatest corporate rivalry never told. Filled with interviews with the main names on the market, Slugfest reveals the arsenal of techniques the two companies have employed in their tries to outmaneuver the competition, whether it be stealing tips, poaching employees, planting spies, or starting price wars. The feud has never completely disappeared, and it simmers on a low boil even today. With DC and Marvel character types becoming global symbols worth billions, if anything, the stakes are higher now than previously.