I mean, you just admitted it is "junk" so...
And, really this is a strawman. I didn't say people cannot enjoy such fare. I said that I didn't find it a shame it was cancelled. I, personally, find it an ill-fitting piece for under the Marvel banner, which is otherwise about heroic figures.
Well, Deadpool and Ghost Rider aren't full-on paragons on virtue. Namor has certainly been prickly in the past. And Venom? Eh ... he does eat people, no matter how much you might play it for laughs.
By the 90s, and certainly when Marvel left the CCA in 2001, they had more than their fair share of main characters that weren't exactly heroic figures.