Four Rooms should be much higher in that list, unless you’re just ranking room 1. Still, there was ample entertainment in that one.
The Rocketeer was actually a modern (comic published 1982) pastiche of 1930s serials.
... where's "Who's That Girl?"?
He belongs in the same club as Bulldog Drummond and Dick Barton - big in their day, but that day has passed. whereas Batman and Holmes have run pretty much continuously since their creation. Spiderman only dates to 1962, so he is nothing like so vintage, but he has run continuously since then too.
Guardians of the Galaxy was effectively a brand new property for everyone except for comic book readers though. It also was a relatively recent property as far as those things go - the modern Guardians of the Galaxy was an in-name-only reboot in 2006 that was updated then to be relevant to contemporary audiences so that by the time the film came out in 2014 it was a property that was less than a decade old. Yes the characters in it date back over the span of Marvel history, but the comics have tried to perpetually update those characters such that the versions in the 2008 relaunch of the Guardians comic book were essentially barely like their originals - much like how Batman in 2005's Batman Begins was barely like the Batman of the Adam West TV show. Different versions as tastes changed over the decades.
And honestly it's fine. Some stories and characters just belong to different eras. They don't need to be IP factories that are perpetually turning out new product.
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The 1945 Dick Tracy movie was good for its time and focus.
