* Action Comics is the first by DC Comics title to reach 1,000 issues (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) is the first superhero movie in the world (Gogoi “Shazam”).
* The Adventures of Captain Marvel is the first Shazam movie (Gogoi “Shazam”).
* Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne’s trusted butler, was portrayed as an overweight, idiotic, comic-relief from his irst appearance until his re-introduction in the Silver Age Comics (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Alfred Pennyworth revealed that he is the Joker in a non-canonical story told in the ‘Batman’ comic “Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader” (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Amalgam Comics (totaling to 24) was a collaboration between Marvel and DC Comics in 1996 which fused the two universes, and thus creating all-new hybrid superheroes like Bat-Thing (Man-Bat + Man-Thing), Challengers of the Fantastic (Fantastic Four + Challengers of the Unknown), Darkclaw (Batman + Wolverine), Iron Lantern (Green Lantern + Iron Man), King Lizard (King Shark + The Lizard),
Spider-Boy (Spider-Man + Superboy), Super Soldier (Superman + Captain America), and Thorion the Hunter (Thor + Orion). Iron Lantern (alter ego: Hal Stark, i.e. Hal Jordan and Tony Stark), for instance, periodically recharges the armor that he made from an alien lantern artifact (“20 Interesting Facts About Marvel Superheroes”; Narcisse “That Weird Time”; Moore “17 Things”).
* Apocalypse made hismovie debut in 2016, the 30th anniversary of his debut in the X-Men comics (May 1986) (“Things You Should Know”).
* Armless Tiger Man is a Marvel villain from the 1940’s (Yezpitelok and Rio “6 Most Bizarrely Offensive”).
* The Atom made his first DCAU appearance in the TV series Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006) (“Justice League Unlimited”).
* The Avengers (2012) hired 25 real life members of the Ohio-based 391st military police force battalion for its segmenet on the attack on New York City (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* The Avengers (2012) hit $1.5 billion and became the then 3rd highest grossing movie in history
(Hughes “’Avengers: Infinity War’”).
* Avengers: Age of Ultron has the most visual effects (VFX) shots in any marvel movie ever, with more than 3,000, beating the previous record holder Guardians of the Galaxy which has 2,750 VFX shots (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* The Avengers: Age of Ultron teaser trailer is the most viewed debut trailer of all time, with 34.3 million global views in 24 hours, beating previous record holder Iron Man 3 with 20 million views (Hall “‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Trailer”).
* Avengers: Age of Ultron was boycotted by about 200 small town German movie theaters after Disney demanded 53% of ticket sales without taking into account the smaller sizes of small town venues; a movie studio usually gets 47.7% of the opening week box office (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* Avengers: Infinity War (2018) is the first movie shot in imax from beginning to end (Katsampiri “Avengers: Infinity War”).
* Avengers: Infinity War (2018) is the longest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) (Katsampiri “Avengers: Infinity War”).
* Avengers: Infinity War opened to a stunning $75+ million in China on May 11, 2018 (Hughes “’Avengers: Infinity War’”).
* The Avengers: Infinity War trailer, which was released on November 29, 2017, is the most viewed debut trailer of all time, with 230 million global views in 24 hours (“Avengers: Infinity War is the Most Viewed Trailer”).
* Avengers: Infinity War was the culmination of a ten-year plan spread across 19 films (Hughes “’Avengers: Infinity War’”).
* Batman could exist in real life but only for a few years due to the incredible physical demands required (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Batman had 8 different Batcaves, one of which is located directly under Arkham Asylum (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Batman is a city in Turkey which once threatened to sue Warner bros. for royalties from its name (“50 Delightful DC”).
* Batman is the DC superhero with the most appearances, at around 6,250 (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* Batman knocked out the Incredible Hulk in a 1981 special, fast. Batman threw a knock-out gas grenade at the head of the Hulk, who was then rampaging at Wayne Tech, and kicked him in the solar plexus, forcing him to breath in the gas (“20 Interesting Facts About Marvel Superheroes”).
* Batman originally lived in Metropolis or New York, and only first became a resident of Gotham City in Batman #4 (1940) (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Batman shot Darkseid with a gun loaded with the very bullet that killed Orion when he taunted him about the destruction of Earth but the Lord of Apokolips hit the dark Knight with his radioactive Omega Beams and incinerates him in Final Crisis #6 (Canfield “15 Biggest Superhero Deaths”).
* The Batman TV series (1966), before being aired, got the lowest test score ratings from selected audience in the history of the ABC network and was not expected to succeed (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Batman V Superman and Justice League were rushed into production without ample time to really develop the story and the characters, which can be blamed partially for their critical failures (Mithaiwala “Warner Bros. Rush”).
* Batman was enslaved and killed over and over again d by the Joker, who was given the infinite power of Mr. Mxyzptlk, in Action Comics vol. 1 #770. The Dark Knight’s death count was pretty high. In one instance Batman was eaten alive by vultures (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Batman was impaled by Ra’s al Ghul with a shovel in the graphic novel trilogy Birth of the Demon, forcing the Dark Knight to jump into the Lazarus Pit to stay alive (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Batman was killed by the Joker and dumped his body into a river in Legends of the Dark Knight #65 (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Batman’s Hellbat is a suit of armor forged in the sun by Superman and used by the Dark Knight in large-scale threats in extreme battle scenarios (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Disturbed versions of the Batman and his sidekick the Boy Wonder beat and nearly killed Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) by painting themselves yellow in a yellow room, thus preventing him to create any constructs in Frank Miller’s All Star Batman and Robin (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* Beast has full membership with the Avengers (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Black Lightning (alter ego: Jefferson Pierce) is the second Black superhero in DC Comics, introduced in 1977 in Black Lightning #1 (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Black Panther is the first Black superhero to appear in a major American comic book, introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966 in Fantastic Four #52 (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Black Panther is the richest superhero, with an estimated net worth of $100-500 billion, making him nearly as rich as Sweden whose nominal GDP is $507 billion (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Black Panther was briefly renamed by Marvel to Black Leopard circa 1972 to avoid any perceived association with the Black Panther party (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Black Widow shot dead Jarvis, Tony Stark’s butler, when he walked in on the two of them having sex in the Ultimate Marvel Universe (“100 Marvel Facts You May Not Know”).
* Black Widow/Natasha Romanov’s age in Marvel movies hae not been explcitly stated, although it is hinted that she is old enough to have been raised by the KGB. She is said to be 70 years old in the comics because of the various medical procedures and bits of biotechnology invested on her (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* The Blue Ear was a superhero created by Marvel Comics especially for their young fan Anthony Smith in 2012, after his mother wrote to the company, telling them that her son won’t wear his hearing aid since he hadn’t seen any superhero wearing one and if he wore his he couldn’t be a superhero. The Blue Ear initially appeared only in pin-up form for Smith but was introduced in a full comic in partnership with the Children’s Hearing Institute in 2014. Marvel also sent Smith a cover image from West Coast Avengers, when Hawkeye temporarily lost his hearing and had to wear a hearing aid, and promised to make him an honorary Avenger if he wore his (Moore “17 Things”).
* Bob Kane, the co-creator of Batman, paid a legions of ghost artists up to $200/page for pencils in the 1950’s (equivalent to $2,066.71/page in 2016), more than many pencilers make in 2017 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Brian Pulido, the publisher of Chaos! Comics, shaved off his goatee and sold it as part of a charity auction at the Wizard World Chicago convention on July 6, 2002 and it was bought at $50 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Bruce Banner, the human form of the Incredible Hulk, was called David Banner in The Incredible Hulk TV show since a producer considered Bruce to have homosexual connotations (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Bryan Singer directed the most comic book superhero movies in the same series, at 4 X-Men films, breaking the previous record held by Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and Christopher Nolan (Batman), with 3 each. Zack Snyder had 5 but they were from multiple franchises: 300, Watchmen, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League (“Things You Should Know”).
* The Captain America: Civil War trailer is the most viewed debut trailer of all time, with 61 million global views in 24 hours, Marvel announced in November 2015, beating previous record holder Star Wars: The Force Awakens with 55 million views and its second trailer with 112 million views in its first 24 hours in October 2015 (Galuppo “‘Captain America: Civil War’”).
* The Captain America: Civil War trailer is the most viewed debut trailer or any Marvel title of all time, almost double the previous record holder, Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer, with 34 million views in 2014 (Galuppo “‘Captain America: Civil War’”).
* Captain America had a kill count of 14,098 in his movies while Superman had countless, according to Hugh Armitage (Armitage “Which Movie Superhero”).
* Captain America had been killed at least 10 times in the comics (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Captain America once teamed up with Dracula when Hydra invaded Transylvania (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Captain America was briefly a werewolf (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Captain America’s original triangular shield was changed into a round shield since the original was too similar to the heraldic logo on his chest of The Shield, a superhero from rival comic publisher MLJ (“50 Marvelous Marvel”; May “10 Little-Known Facts”).
* Various Marvel movies from Captain America to Captain America: Civil War had to avoid using words from the X-Men since Fox owned its license. It could not be said that Captain America’s shield or Ultron contain a trace of Adamantium, the metal around Wolverine’s bones. “Mutant” was replaced with “enhanced,” and Wanda and Peter have more mundane parents than Magneto (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Captain Cold built the cold gun in the comics but in the CW TV series The flash, he got it from a black market dealer who got it from S.T.A.R. Labs (Schultz “25 Facts”).
* Captain Marvel was originally a superhero created by Fawcett Comics in the 1940’s who became immensely popular. DC Comics claimed that the character was a Superman copycat and sued Fawcett for alleged copyright infringement. Fawcett folded and agreed to cease publication after years of court battles. DC, then looking for new material, planned to license and revive Captain Marvel from Fawcett to use themselves. Marvel learned about the plan in 1967 and Marvel introduced its Captain Marvel and trademarked the name, thereby forcing DC to rename Fawcett’s original Captain Marvel to Shazam. But because of this, Marvel is required to keep printing comics featuring any character named Captain Marvel at all times in order to hold on to the trademark and prevent DC’s Shazam from claiming the name. This is partly why Ms. Marvel took on the name Captain Marvel (Moore “17 Things”; Perpetua “36 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* The original Captain Marvel, created by Fawcett Comics, was inspired by Superman (Gogoi “Shazam”).
* Carnage was modeled after the Joker (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Christian Bale refused to play Batman if Robin appeared anywhere in the Trilogy (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Clark Kent and Lois Lane attended a Halloween custome party as Batman and Robin respectively in a 1997 issue of “Superman (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Clark Kent was originally chosen to become a Green Lantern by Abi Sur’s ring but was rejected since he wasn’t native to Earth (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* “Clint” and “flick” are among the words comic book letterers avoid since the letters can inadvertently run together during printing and can be misconstrued as profanity (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Cobalt Blue is a supervillain who is the long-lost twin brother of the Flash (alter ego: Barry Allen) (Vicky “50 Superb Facts”).
* Colossus is gay in the Ultimate Marvel universe (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Combo Man was a boy who became an amalgamation superhero after being bombarded by energy and eating a Combo and was featured in a single-issue comic cross-promotion by Marvel Comics and Combos Snacks. He was a combination of Captain America, Carnage, Cyclops, Daredevil, the Human Torch, Hulk, Iron Man, Magneto, the Punisher, Spider-Man, and Wolverine (“100 Marvel Facts You May Not Know”).
* Conan the Barbarian, Fu Manchu, Godzilla, and The transformers were part of the Marvel Universe until their license agreements lapsed (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Conan the Barbarian was licensed by Marvel Comics from Conan Properties for $200 an issue (equivalent to $1,284.86 in 2017) in 1970. To compensate for the big fee, Marvel had Barry Smith draw the early issues since he was a new artist and had a cheaper rate (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Condiment King was a Batman villain who was defeated after he slipped on his own ketchup (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Cyborg (alter ego: Victor Stone) joined the Justice League on TV 25 years before joining them in the comic books. Cyborg, a member of the Teen Titans in the comics, was added to the group in the cartoon TV show Super-Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985) (Justice League with a different name) because Teen Titans was then a hit comic book and including him in the group will boost the show. Cyborg was made a founding member and mainstay of the Justice League in the New 52 comics (“16 Fun Facts You Never Knew”).
* Cyclops and Jean Grey were married by Marvel in the comics when they discovered that the producers of X-Men: The Animated Series will wed them in its second season (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Danny the Street is a DC Comics character which is a sentient transvestite length of road with the power of teleportation (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The Dark Knight (2008) is the first superhero movie ever to cross the billion-dollar threshold, which its sequel, The Dark Knight Rises (2012), also achieved in 2012. Iron Man 3 is the only other solo superhero film to do so at the end of 2017; the movie got a significant boost in ticket sales since it was the MCU’s first post-Avengers movie (Mithaiwala “Warner Bros. Rush”).
* The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie not to have the word Batman in the title (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The Dark Knight was the first Batman movie not to have any bats throughout the film (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* DC Comics had acquired superheroes from other publishers, among them Midnighter (Wildstorm), Plastic Man (Quality), The Question (Charlton), Shazam (Fawcett), Static (Milestone), and Wonder Woman (All-American) (“50 Delightful DC”).
* Detective Comics (debuted: 1937) is the longest-running title by DC Comics, at 81 years by 2018 (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* DC Comics Inc. was originally the National Allied Publications, only officially changing its name to DC Comics in 1977 since prior to that most fans knew it as DC because of the initials on every cover of its comics, identifying it as being from the same publisher as the popular Detective Comics (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* DC Comics rebooted their superhero universe, including Superman, in 2011 (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* DC was named after Detective Comics (“50 Delightful DC”).
* Deadpool is immortal in the comics because Thanos wants to keep him away from Death in the afterlife (Muse “10 Weird Facts”).
* Deadpool (alter ego: Wade Wilson) was originally conceptualized as a spoof of DC’s Deathstroke (alter ego: Slade wilson) (“25 Marvel Facts”).
* Dick Ayers was colorblind but managed to colored comic books by having his paints in jars with labels. Other artists who were also colorblind include John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, Tim Sale, and John Severin (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Dkrtzy RRR, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, is a sentient math equation (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Doctor Doom was a Batman villain 12 years before Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Marvel villain with the same name (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Doll Man is a superhero created by Quality Comics whose only power was to shrink to the size of a doll (Peters “8 Regrettable”).
* The Doom Patrol of DC and the X-Men of Marvel, both teams of outcasts with superpowers led bya wheelchair-bound leader, deuted within three months of each other, with the former being the first (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Doomsday can withstand Darkseid’s omega beam (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Doomsday defeated the Justice League with one arm tied behind his back (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Doomsday is reposnible for the death of more than 1,000,000 Green Lanterns (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Earth-23 is a planet in the DC Multiverse which is almost entirely populated by black versions of DC superheroes. Black Superman and Black Wonder Woman were based on Barack Obama and Beyoncé Knowles (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* El Diablo #6 (2009) is said to be the worst-selling DC Universe comic of all time, selling only 3,997 copies (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 2”).
* Ethan Van Sciver, an artist, secretly incorporated the word “sex” into nearly every page of New X-Men No. 118 (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* The Eye (a.k.a. Detective Eye), is a superhero created by Centaur Publications and debuted in: Keen Detective Funnies Vol. 2 No. 12 (December 1939), was a living, speaking, crime-fighting giant, floating disembodied eyeball, wreathed in a halo of golden light, which may well be the “most literal superhero in comic book history” (Morris “Most Literal Superhero”; Peters “8 Regrettable”).
* Fables was initially intended as a 5-issue series but ended up with 150 issues, and resulted to ten spinoffs (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 2”).
* The Falcon (Sam Wilson) is the first African-American superhero (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* The Falcon is the Black superhero not to have the word “black” in his monicker (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* The Falcon is the second Black superhero in Marvel Comics, introduced in 1969 in Captain America #117 (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* The Falcon (Sam Wilson) is the first Black Captain America, having been given the mantle by the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, who could no longer serve as the superhero, in Captain America (vol.7) #25 (2015) (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* The Flash (Barry Allen) beat Quicksilver in a race, after he seem to die in Crisis on Infinite Earths and ran to the Marvel Universe (“50 Delightful DC”).
* The Flash can phase (move) through solid objects with his entire body or just a specific limb (“17 Bizarre Facts About the Flash’s Body”).
* The Flash can pass the speed force to his descendants (“17 Bizarre Facts About the Flash’s Body”).
* The Flash (alter ego: Barry Allen) can punch someone up to 1,000,000,000 times per second (Jenkins “10 Lightning-Fast Facts”).
* The Flash can time travel, backwards or forwards, and to travel to other dimensions as well by running very fast (“17 Bizarre Facts About the Flash’s Body”).
* The Flash can whip up miniature tornadoes (vortexes) (“17 Bizarre Facts About the Flash’s Body”).
* The Flash consumes vast amounts of calories to keep up his energy but doesn’t become fat because of his accelerated metabolism, except one time he got fat after Gorilla Grodd shot him with a radiation gun (“17 Bizarre Facts About the Flash’s Body”).
* The Flash gave his superpowers to himself. In the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” crossover comic, Barry Allen was turned into pure energy after running so fast, traveled back in time, and struck himself as the a bolt of lightning which gave him his superpowers (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* The Flash had to run after being pricked by one of Poison Ivy’s toxic thorns to keep the toxin from metabolizing into his bloodstream, circling the world 6 times, maintaining supersonic speeds for over a day (Vicky “50 Superb Facts”).
* The Flash (alter ego: Barry Allen) is faster than Superman (Jenkins “10 Lightning-Fast Facts”).
* The Flash is not a single superhero, there had been at least four incarnations: Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West, and Bart Allen (grandson of Barry Allen) (Vicky “50 Superb Facts”).
* The Flash (alter ego: Barry Allen) is the first Silver Age remake of a DC Comics superhero. DC Comics has been in the industry for quite a while so it has different “ages” of its comics. The Golden Age refers to the first incarnations of superheroes while the Silver Age was its first effort to modernize its characters (Jenkins “10 Lightning-Fast Facts”).
* The Flash once tuned every radio on Earth in one septosecond, which means he would have travelled about 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, faster than the speed of light (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* The Flash (alter ego: Barry Allen) was used by DC editors as the in-story mechanism for rebooting the DC Comics universe in the New 52 series. He changed reality after going back in time to try to stop the Reverse-Flash from murdering his mother, Nora Allen (Jenkins “10 Lightning-Fast Facts”).
* The original Flash (alter ego: Jay Garrick) wears a helmet inspired by the Greek God Hermes and the Roman god ‘\Mercury (Vicky “50 Superb Facts”).
* The Floronic Man was a DC supervillain made of marijuana that Batman fought (“50 Delightful DC”; Yezpitelok and Rio “6 Most Bizarrely Offensive”).
* Four Color by Dell comics is the first American comic book to reach 1,000 issues, reaching 1,365 issues (1942-1965) (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* Galactus and Silver Surfer, which were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, were inspired by the Bible, specifically God and Satan respectively (“20 Interesting Facts About Marvel Superheroes”).
* Galatea, the Supergirl clone, wore a custome and hairstyle similar to Power Girl in the TV series Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006); the real Power Girl was not allowed to appear in the series (“Justice League Unlimited”).
* Garbage Man (alter ego: Richard Morse) is a DC superhero who was a lawyer for a powerful law firm twho was ransformed into hideous creature with toxic skin, regeneration abilities, and super human strength (“Garbage Man”).
* George Clooney was once asked in an interview if he would ever play a homosexual character in a movie. His reply was he already did when he had played Batman in Batman and Robin in 1997 (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* G.I. Joe was based on a failed pitch for a Shield comic book (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Godzilla was continuously used by Marvel in the mid 1980’s even when its license to publish the character in comics had already expired (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Goldballs is a mutant who has the power to shoot gold balls from his body (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Green Lama is a comic book superhero in the 1940’s who was a practicing Buddhist and has the power of reincarnation (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Green Lantern and Wonder Woman were planned by DC Comics to become into a couple in the 1970’s but had to abandon the idea after a fan mail suggested the same idea (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* Green Lantern (alter ego: John Stewart) destroyed Mogo, a member of the Green Lantern Corps who was a sentient planet, since it was corrupted and was being used to create waves of new killer Green Lanterns (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* Green Lantern (alter ego: John Stewart) is the first Black superhero in DC Comics, introduced in December, 1971 in Green Lantern #87 (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Green Lantern once had an alien starfish sidekick, Itty, who sat on his shoulder (“30 Facts About the Green Lantern”; “20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* The original Green Lantern (alter ego: Alan Scott, 1940 version) can not make his powers work against wood (“30 Facts About the Green Lantern”).
* The original Green Lantern had declining sales so the eries was rebooted in 1959 with Hal Jordan as the new Green Lantern. It was the Hal Jordan version of the Green Lantern whose powers don’t work against yellow (“30 Facts About the Green Lantern”).
* The original Green Lantern is different from the 1959 version, their only commonality being the wearing of a ring. Alan Scott’s powers were magical in origin rather than etraterrestial. He found a magical green flame from which his lantern came (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* The original Green Lantern was created by Martin Nodell after seeing a railroad engineer holding up a green lantern to indicate that it was time for his train to pass by (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* The original Green Lantern was reintroduce as an openly gay man in the rebooted “New 52” universe (“20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Green Lantern”).
* Hawkeye is the only character who is a member of the Justice Legue and the Avengers (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* Hawkeye once ripped off his own fingernails and used them as deadly projectiles (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* The Hemo Goblin was a DC supervillain created to help a white-supremacists terminate people of non-white ethnicity by spreading AIDS (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* Henry Cavill almost wasn’t cast as Superman in Man of Steel because he was busy playing World of Warcraft (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Hugh Jackman is the first actor to play the same comic superhero in five movies (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* Hulk was boycotted by 200 cinemas in 2003 after a rise in demanded fees by Disney (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* The Human Torch was not in the 1970’s Fantastic Four cartoon not because the network was afraid children would light themselves on fire emulating the hero, but because Universal Studios, which had licensed the Human Torch, blocked the use of him in the show (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* The CGI Incredible Hulk body in the movie The Avengers (2012) was based on bodybuilder Steve Romm while his face was modelled after Mark Ruffalo’s (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* The Incredible Hulk, an aged and deteriorated psychotic landlord who ruled over Logan and his family, had a brutal brawl with Wolverine in the final act of the celebrated miniseries Old Man Logan whee he swallowed Logan whole but died when the Wolverine clawed through his stomach (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* The Incredible Hulk in the films The Hulk (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) was key-frame animated (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* The Incredible Hulk played by Mark Ruffalo in the film The Avengers (2012) was the first time the superhero role was portrayed via motion capture in a movie (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* The Incredible Hulk was an original Avenger but quit after the first issue and only came back to the team 50 years later when the movie Avengers was released (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* The Incredible Hulk was originally made gray by Stan Lee in the first issue of the series The Incredible Hulk in 1962 so as not to suggest any particular ethnic group. The color gray, however, would cause inconsistency problems in printing as colorist Stan Goldberg found out, resulting in different shades of gray; the printing technology at the time was not ideal for the gray color. Thus, Lee change dthe Hulk to green after the first issue (“20 Interesting Facts About Marvel Superheroes”; “50 Marvelous Marvel”). Green was chosen since it was one of the most consistent colors in print at the time (May “10 Little-Known Facts”).
* The Incredible Hulk was the last living human in the Hulk: The End, and as an elderly Bruce Banner, suffered a fatal heart attack, but managed to turn into the Hulk. The stores with the Hulk sitting, knowing that he will cease to exist when he returns to his human form (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* The Incredible Hulk’s alter ego was originally introduced as Bruce Banner but Stan Lee inadvertently used Bob Banner in some comics so he was given the name Robert Bruce Banner to reconcile the discrepancy (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Image Comics was founded in 1992 by Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, and four other major artists after leaving Marvel, causing Marvel’s stock price to drop more than $11 per share (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* The Incredibles 2 teaser trailer, which premiered on November 18, 2017, is the most watched animated movie teaser trailer ever (biggest trailer debut ever for an animated film), with more than 114 million views (Read-Dominguez “Incredibles 2”).
* Iron Man once proposed to the Illuminati to bring the Incredible Hulk off into outer space (“15 Times Iron Man”).
* Jean Grey has died fourteen times in Marvel’s Earth-616 continuity alone (“100 Marvel Facts You May Not Know”).
* Jemm, Son of Saturn #10 (1984) of DC Comics was sold returnable and is reputed to have had a 90% return rate, although its initial print run was well above 40,000 copies (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 2”).
* Jeremy Renner trained with Olympic archers to prepare for his role as Hawkeye in Avengers (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman, sold the charcater to DC Comics for $130, plus a 10-year contract to do the book, 32.5-40% of net proceeds derived from the newspaper strip, and 5% of all other licensing. The duo earned $63,776.46 (equivalent to $986,459.35 in 2017) in Superman income in 1942 alone (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Jessica Cruz is the first female Green Lantern from Earth, in 2013 (“30 Facts About the Green Lantern”).
* Jihad was a character bent on world domination introduced by Marvel Comics eleven days before 9/11 (“25 Marvel Facts”).
* The John F. Kennedy of the DC universe was abducted by aliens, instead of being assassinated, to fight a tyrannical extraterrestrial government, as revealed in Teen Titans: The Lost Annual #1 (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* John Romita Jr., an artist, set a Guinness World Record by penciling Spider-Man sketches and signing autographs in Times Square for 51 hours, 26 minutes consecutively on May 10-12, 2002, raising more than $10,000 to benefit his niece, who was suffering from brain cancer (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* The Joker also used a utility belt, which contained different gag items, in some old Batman comics (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The Joker once served as the Iranian ambassador for the United Nations (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* The Joker was hired by Red Skull to steal an atomic bomb in the Marvel and DC crossover comic special “Batman/Captain America” (1997). He attacked Red Skull when he found out that he was a Nazi, shouting, “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an American criminal lunatic” (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* The Joker was supposed to be killed off by creator Bob Kane in his very first appearance in Batman No.1 but Whitney Ellsworth, Batman’s editor, saw potential in the villain and onvinced Kane to let him live (May “10 Little-Known Facts”).
* Jon Bogdanove, an artist who used to draw Superman, named his son Kal-El, the Man of steel’s Kryptonian name (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* The Justice League did not have a Black member for 23 years, until 1984, when writer Gerry Conway introduced the Detroit League (“16 Fun Facts You Never Knew”).
* The Justice League of America was once renamed by Hanna-Barbera to Super Friends in the Saturday morning cartoon TV show of the same name in 1973 because the original name was thought to be too aggressively patriotic in light of the Vietnam War (“15 Things You Didn’t Know”). Also see Super Friends/
* Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006) is the first DCAU show to start using CGI vehicles (“Justice League Unlimited”).
* Justice Society of America is the first superhero team (“15 Things You Didn’t Know”).
* Kal-El crashed in Gotham City and was adopted by the Waynes in an alternate universe and became the Batman when they were killed (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Kevin Smith named his daughter Harley Quinn Smith, after the sideick of DC Comics’ The Joker (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Kitty Pryde was named after a real life classmate of John Byrne at the Alberta College of Art, who went on to change her name in the early 1990’s to avoid unwanted attention from comics fans (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Kryptonite has over 20 varieties, among them pink Kryptonite, which gives Superman gay tendencies (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Kyle Rayner is the first and only being to weild all Lantern Corps rings at once (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Lex Luthor contracted cancer because of the kryptonite ring he wore in his right hand, which was amputated (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The Library of Congress houses the largest comic book collection in the world, with more than 100,000 individual issues (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role of Wanda “Scarlet Witch” Maximoff in Avengers: Age of Ultron (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* Lobo, a Dell African-American hero in a Western-themed comic, is the first African-American comic book character with his own title, appearing in only two issues in 1965 and 1966 due to poor sales. Most copies of the comic were returned by retailers since they didn’t want to sell a comic book featuring a Black hero, according to co-creator Tony Tallarico (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Lobo is a DC Comics white alien supervillain from another planet that related to Dell Comics’ Lobo (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Lois Lane was inspired by movie reporter Torchy Blaine (Smith “As ‘Action Comics’ Reaches”).
* Loki was introduced in the Marvel Universe 13 years before his brother Thor (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Loki was recently reincarnated as a teen and wanted to reform, joining the Young Avengers (Tzatzou “Loki Trivia”).
* Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder who portrayed the Incredible Hulk in the TV series, contributed to the voice of the Hulk in film The Avengers (2012) (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* Malcolm Merlyn of the TV series Arrow was based on a D-list Justice League America villain, not a Green Arrow nemesis (“16 Fun Facts You Never Knew”).
* A man was facing a foreclosure in 2010 when he found a copy of Action Comics #1, which featured the first appearance of Superman, in his basement and went on to save his home after selling it at only $250,000 due to its poor shape (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Man-Thing of Marvel and Swamp Thing of DC debuted within weeks of each other in 1971, with their with their co-creator Gerry Conway and Len Wein respectively being roommates at that time (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Marc Silvestri and his brother gained access to the hotel room of DC editor Joe Orlando by pretending to be room service staff during the 1980 Chicago Comicon. Silvestri got his portfolio looked at, and got his first professional assignment – a six-page story in House of Mystery (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics, tried to convince Stan Lee and Steve Ditko not to introduce Spider-Man since kids hate spiders (Perpetua “36 Things”; Moore “17 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”; May “10 Little-Known Facts”).
* Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics, went on honeymoon in Europe and tried to book tickets to the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg for their return trip to the U.S.A. but had to pull out since he could not get two seats next to each other, and instead, booked for a plane. Had he booked earlier, there would not have been Marvel Comics since the Hindenburg was engulfed in flames and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey on May 6, 1937 (Moore “17 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Marvel Comics owns the Men In Black since it purchased its previous publisher Malibu in 1994 (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Marvel Comics shares dropped from $35 to just $2 by 1996, barely more than the shelf price of the comics they printed (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Marvel Comics was originally known as Timely Comics in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s and Atlas Comics in the 1950’s (Moore “17 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Marvel Comics wrote backstories for the toy franchises of G.I. Joe and Transformers (stories that will go with the toys which were created first)
* Marvel got more than $1 million in Heroclix royalties alone in 2003 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Marvel stories largely take place in New York City partly because it is where Marvel Comics has always been based. DC stories, on the other hand, occur in fictional areas (Moore “17 Things”).
* Marvel Strange Tales #110 (July 1963), the comic book which first featured Doctor Strange, had been sold for $61,000 at an auction (Flessa “Doctor Strange”).
* Melbourne was almost named Batmania, after John Batman, one of it’s founding fathers (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Michael Jackson and Shaquille O’Neal lobbied for parts in the first X-Men movie (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Michael Jackson owned a huge collection of Marvel and DC comics and memorabilia (Moore “17 Things”).
* Michael Jackson planned to buy Marvel Comics in the late 1990’s since he wanted to play Spider-Man in a film (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Michael Keaton was so against Batman Forever that even $15 million couldn’t convince him to reprise his role (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Mike Banks, a retailer, of Samurai Comics in Phoenix, Arizona came up with a brilliant idea for cheap advertising that got him some new customers, by making good use of the competing promotional offers of both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. DC Comics relased the highly successful Batman: The 10 Cent Adventure in 2002, which resulted to 16 comic stores ordering 10,000 or more copies; Marvel’s answer was a nine-cent Fantastic Four #60. Banks put a store sticker with address and contact number on more than 1,000 issues and gave them to a local Dominos Pizza to be delivered free with order (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Mike Grell broke Walter Simonson’s record for DC Comics’ highest starting page rate for pencils, $43/page vs $40/page for his debut, a seven-page Aquaman story in DC’s Adventure Comics #435. It was increased to $45/page after editor Joe Orlando liked his job (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Mr. Immortal is a Marvel superhero whose only power is immortality (“25 Marvel Facts”).
* Mogo, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, is an actual sentient planet (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Namor the Submariner of Marvel was the first flying superhero back when Superman was still leaping tall buildings (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Nicolas Cage (real name: Nicolas Coppola) chose his stage name as a tribute to Luke Cage of Marvel Comics (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Nicolas Cage earned $20 Million to play Superman in Superman Lives in 1997, even if he did not actually played the Man of Steel since the film got canceled (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Nicolas Cage named his son Kal-el (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The One Above All, an all-powerful all-knowing entity who takes the form of Jack Kirby when interacting with others, is the most powerful in the Marvel Universe (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Attendance at the Orlando MegaCon had a grown by leaps in the last 13 years: 16,800 in 2003, 20,500 in 2004, 69,000 in 2014, and over 100,000 in 2016 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Pepper Potts in the film The Avengers (2012), portrayed by Gwyneth Paltrow, was always barefoot in Stark Tower since Paltrow was taller than Downey at 5’9” and he had to wear lifts in his shoes to appear taller (“28 Fun Facts & Trivia About Marvel’s Avengers”).
* Peter Parker was once bitten by a radioactive sheep in an alternate reality, transforming him into a superhero called Sheep-Boy (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Power Man (alter ego: Luke Cage) is the first Black superhero at either Marvel or DC to get his own comic book series (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* The Punisher had been killed at least 10 times in the comics (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Ragman (alter ego: Rory Regan), one of the few Jewish superheroes in the DC universe, wears a suit of rags made from the souls of evildoers (“Ragman”).
* Ralph Macchio, Marvel comic book editor, is often mistaken as the actor of the same name who starred in Karate Kid. He once spent 15 minutes on the telephone with a fan reading fake lines from a made-up Karate Kid Part 5 script even if there were only three original Karate Kid movies which starred Macchio (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Richard Isanove, a colorist, colored Marvel’s Origin series direct from the pencils and backwards. He was left handed while penciler Andy Kubert was right-handed so he had to scan and flip the pages to color them left-handed (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Salvador Larroca, an artist, had a home in the shape of a “4” with a large 4-shaped “porthole” window upstairs because he earned a lot in drawing the Fantastic Four due to the U.S. dollar-to-Spanish exchange rate at the time (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Santa Claus in the DC universe is a powerful 1,800 year-old immortal entity whose bone dust was once snorted like cocaine by John Constantine (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Scarlett Johansson, who portrayed Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), had three stunt doubles since she was pregnant during the filming of the film (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* The name Shazam stands for the attributes of several mythical figures – Solomon’s wisdom, Hercules’ strength, Atlas’ stamina, Zeus’ power, Achilles’ courage, and Mercury’s speed (Gogoi “Shazam”).
* Shazam was originally named Captain Marvel, but had to take its current name after a legal battle with Marvel Comics for the use of the name (Gogoi “Shazam”).
* She-Hulk was created by Marvel after it found out that the popular Incredible Hulk TV series had a plan to introduce a female Hulk. They inaugural issue of The Savage She-Hulk was rushed so Marvel could hold the copyright and trademark (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Snowflame was a DC supervillain in the late 1980’s who was a olombian drug lord who got his powers by snorting cocaine (“50 Delightful DC”; Yezpitelok and Rio “6 Most Bizarrely Offensive”).
* Spider-Ham, a spider-pig whose identity was Peter Porker, was created by Marvel Comics (“25 Marvel Facts”).
* The Amazing Spider-man, the film, employed more than 1,000 people (Lewis “30 Super Facts”).
* The Amazing Spider-man Volume 1 ended in December 2012, on the 700th issue (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man had been killed at least 7 times in the comics (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Spider-man had hands six arms at one point and even became a giant spider (Lewis “30 Super Facts”).
* Spider-man (alter ego: Peter Parker) has an IQ of 250 (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man has a total of 8 cartoon TV shows: Spider-man (1967), Spider-man (1981), Spider-man and His Amazing Friends (1981), Spider-man: The Animated Series (1994), Spider-man Unlimited (1999), Spider-man: The New Animated Series (2003), The Spectacular Spider-man (2008), and Ultimate Spider-man (2012) (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man in Sam Raimi’s films had organic web shooters rather than mechanical ones (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man is not a part of the Avengers because Marvel had sold the rights to Sony (“25 Marvel Facts”).
* Spider-man is the first teenage superhero to not be a sidekick of an adult hero (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man is weak to the pesticide ethyl chloride (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man once became part of the Fantastic Four, then called the Future Foundation, when the Human Torch died (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man: Reign (2007), a four issue miniseries, tells of a possible future where Mary Jane dies from cancer caused by Peter Peter’s radioactive sperm (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man: The Animated Series (1994) was heavily censored by Fox. The entire season only had three punches thrown. Killing was a no-no, with the word “kill” replaced by “destroy” and villains were sent to alternate dimensions and not killed off (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-man uses quips in his fights with villains distract them and make him relax (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Spider-Man was originally contemplated to be named Fly-Man or Isect-Man by Stan Lee (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Spider-Man’s black costume was designed by a fan who joined a competition for aspiring writers and artists organized by Marvel, and was bought by Jim Shooter, Marvel’s editor-in-chief, for $220 in the 1980’s. It was introduced as an alien “symbiote’ and became known as Venom, one of the most famous foes of Spider-Man (Perpetua “36 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Spider-Man’s name has a hyphen to avoid it being confused with Superman in print (Perpetua “36 Things”).
* Spider-man’s webs is strong enough to restrain the Incredible Hulk (“50 Facts About Spider-man”).
* Stan Drake, a legendary comic strip artist, used to keep one foot in a bucket of ice water to keep him awake while working overnight on tight deadlines (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Stan Goldberg, an artist, received from Marvel Comics a four-foot stack of original art with material dating back to the 1950’s in April 2004 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Stan Lee bought Marvel stock at $7.48 on March 18, 2002. He made a 4x multiple on his investment when Disney acquired Marvel and was given a partial share of Disney stock for each Marvel share he owned, each of which would be worth the equivalent of $78.80 by 2017 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Stan Lee cameos in nearly every Marvel live-action film (Moore “17 Things”).
* Stan Lee sued Marvel Comics in 2005, claiming that it did not paid him the 10% of profits from superhero movies that he was owed (Moore “17 Things”).
* Stan Lee was a judo instructor in the U.S. Army in World War II (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Stan Lee wrote a large part of his Marvel Universe stories while standing (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Stan Lee wrote for DC Comics in the past, on a series called “Just Imagine” where he rewrote some of the company’s most famous superheroes, among them Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and many other members of the Justice League (Moore “17 Things”).
* Steve Rogers, the alter ego of Captain America, once worked as a comic book artist in his civilian identity and he drew Captain America (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Storm (alter ego: Ororo Munroe) is the first Black female superhero, introduced in 1975 in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Storm is the first Black member of the X-Men (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Storm married Black Panther in the comics but the marriage did not last (“Who Were the First Black Superheroes”).
* Storm was the first female African-American superhero (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Storm was married to the Black Panther (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* Super Friends aired 109 episodes over 13 years up to 1986 and introduced a racially diverse rooseter of characters by inventing four characters, namely Apache Chief, Samurai, El Dorado, and Black Vulcan (“15 Things You Didn’t Know”). Also see Justice League of America.
* The trademark for “superhero” (along with alternate spellings such as super hero and super-hero) is shared by DC Comics and Marvel Comics since the late 1970’s (“50 Marvelous Marvel”). Cup ‘O Java, a small publisher, was brought to court by the comic book giants in 2013 for a book it published, “A World Without Superheroes.” They also sued the entrepreneur who wrote the business book “Business Zero To Superhero” (Moore “17 Things”).
* Many of Superman’s supporting cast have the initials L.L. – Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Linda Lee, Lori Lemaris, Lupe Leocadio, Lyla Lerrol, Letitia Lerner, Lara Lor-Van, and Lex Luthor (“50 Delightful DC”).
* Superman compresses his spine when he is Clark Kent to appear shorter than the Man of Steel (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Superman faced off with Spider-Man in the comic book Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man (1976) (Narcisse “That Weird Time”).
* Superman had a brutal brawl with Doomsday and due to his massive injuries, died in the 1992 storyline The Death of Superman in Superman vol. 2 #75, the most publicized death of any superhero (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Superman has been ranked #1 on IGN’s top 100 superheroes, followed by Batman and Spider-man in that order (“Top 100 Comic Book Heroes”).
* Superman landed in a Ukrainian collective and became a hero of the USSR in an alternative version of the Superman comics (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Superman once recorded a sex tape after his mind was controlled by the villain Sleez (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Superman teamed up with Muhammad Ali to stop an alien invasion in a 1978 comic book (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Superman was once bitten by Dracula but the vampire exploded since Superman is powered by the Sun (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Superman was killed by the alien life-form The Murder Man (a.k.a. Zunial) with a Kryptonite radio wave in Superman #188, the second time the Man of Steel was killed off in the comics (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Superman also died in Justice League of America #145 (1977), Action Comics #583 (1986), and the New 52, bringing his total death count in the comics to at least 5 (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Superman was originally planned as a bald telepathic megalomanical villain bent on world domination (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* The Teen Titans cartoon is a spin-off of the Justice League franchise (“Justice League Fun Facts”).
* Thanos is listed as 6’7” in Marvel.com although Hot Toys’ Thanos Sixth Scale Figure for the Avengers: Infinity War movie stands 41 cm., or about 8 ft., making Thanos taller in the film than in the comic book (Wallace “Marvel Superhero Height”).
* Tony Stark (Iron Man) has been choked in every film he has been featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the fifth time of which was by Thor in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (Deane “26 Fun Facts”).
* Tony Stark owns Area 51 in the Marvel comics (Muse “10 Weird Facts”).
* Many Transformers, among them Optimus Prime and Megatron, were given their English names by Marvel Comics editors (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Ultron was created by Dr. Hank Pym (Ant-Man) in the comics, as opposed to the movie where he was developed by Tony Stark (“15 Interesting Facts and Trivia”).
* The University of Victoria in Canada offers a course in the science of Batman (“100 Interesting Facts About DC”).
* Vibe was a DC superhero who breakdanced to create sound waves that was later killed off (“30 Awesome DC Comics Facts”).
* The Wall is a Marvel super villain who is a sentinet chunk of wall with no arms (Muse “10 Weird Facts”).
* Walter Simonson was given by DC Comics its highest starting page rate for pencils plus inks in 1972 for his DC debut, at $40/page for a story in Weird War Tales #10 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”). Also see Mike Grell.
* Warner considered licensing the publishing rights for DC’s superheroes to Marvel in the mid 1980’s but it passed on the offer (“50 Delightful DC”).
* All 12 original Watchmen covers sold as a group at a Sotheby’s auction in 1993 for $17,250 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* The cover to Watchmen #1 alone sold for $155,350 at a Heritage auction in 2013.
(McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 3”).
* Wizard: The Comics Magazine #141 (June 2003) had an advertising revenue of $125,056.25 (McLauchlin “100 Little-Known Facts…Part 1”).
* Wolverine has regenerated from a single drop of blood (“85 Enlightening Superhero Facts”).
* Wolverine originally wore gloves with claws attached rather than having retractable claws in The Incredible Hulk #180 (1974) (“20 Interesting Facts About Marvel Superheroes”).
* Wolverine was originally conceptualized as a wolverine who mutated into a human (“35 Best Marvel Facts”).
* Wonder Man was killed off by Marvel in deference to DC’s Wonder Woman but brought him back after DC created Power Girl while Marvel has Power Man (“50 Marvelous Marvel”).
* Wonder Woman died after a brutal attack from Neron in Wonder Woman vol. 2 #124-125, the issue of which was released on the same day, August 31, 1997, when another Princess Diana died, Princess Diana of Wales, in a car accident (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Wonder Woman lost her powers for a period in the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s (Cellania “26 Odd”).
* Wonder Woman was supposed to be named Suprema but the idea had to be dropped since it was deemed too similar to Siperman (“50 Delightful DC”).
* Wonder Woman was turned into clay, the matter with which she was first created, in the Crisis on Infinite Earths series, the most notable among the five deaths of the heroine in her 70 year existence (Castro “15 Superheroes”).
* Zeitgeist, an X-Force mutant, uses incredibly corrosive acid vomit (DiMatteo “25 Facts”).
* The word zombie was trademarked by Marvel Comics for two decades (1976-1996). The trademark, however, was unenforceable, in practical terms, so Marvel revised the trademark to Marvel zombies (Moore “17 Things”; Perpetua “36 Things”; “35 Best Marvel Facts”).
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