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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chun-tzu" data-source="post: 921797" data-attributes="member: 1441">Ghost Rider had super-strength and was indestructible, but his trademark power was his Penance Stare. When he used it on people, it returned upon them all the psychic pain that they had inflicted upon others (i.e., the more vicious and heartless they were, the more they suffered).I disagree. This was a difference that held true maybe 10 or 20 years ago, but it's not there any more. DC super-heroes have more than their share of personal problems, even among the classic heroes (e.g., the revision of Superman by John Byrne; Batman's darker, more arrogant I-don't-need-amateurs-whether-or-not-they-have-super-powers and more paranoid has-back-up-plans-to-take-down-anyone attitude, and Kyle Rayner, the based-on-Peter-Parker Green Lantern). Marvel characters like Thor, Hulk, and Silver Surfer have done things as ridiculously overpowered as the often-scoffed planet-tossing silver age Superman.Any differences in style vary far more from writer to writer than between companies, and most comic writers currently or have in the past written for both Marvel and DC (and often otehr companies). You won't see differences between Peter David's writing style in Supergirl or the Hulk based on the company, but rather based on them being different characters. To me, that's proof that there's no such differences between Marvel and DC characters any more: the same writers write characters of both universes.Marvel is more popular than DC because they have hotter artists. I'm convinced that's by far the biggest factor. Most comic readers, for better or worse, are satisfied with mediocre stories as long as the art is good. The artist has far more influence on sales than the writer. DC doesn't put their hottest talents on their primary characters, thinking that the books will sell anyway. And they will. But when you put guys like Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee on Batman, just watch it take the comics world by storm.If DC put a similar top-notch team on Superman, it would give X-Men and Spider-Man a run for their money.</blockquote>

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