Marvel and DC comics

Marvel
Marvel Worldwide Inc is an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel Entertainment. Martin Goodman founded the company as Timely Productions in 1939. Some of marvel's most famous characters are Wolverine, Iron Man, Captain Amercia, Spider-man and The Hulk, and their famous teams are the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the Guardiens Of The Galaxy and the X-Men. Most of the characters are set in real-life cities. An example of this is is Spider-man, the fantastic four, the avengers, daredevil and Dr.Strange are based in New York City. Over the years, marvel has created obver 200 superheroes, and has 42 films based on Marvel Comics! 

3 Marvel + DC Facts
1)Marvel Comics and DC cosmics have co-owned the trademark for the phrase "superhero" since 
1881. 
2)From 2002-2006,  60.6 million DC or Marvel comics were sold.
3)In 1969, the most sold superhero comic was Superman, DC, with 511,984 sales. The 5th most sold was Marvels Spider-man, with 372,352 sales.

DC
Dc Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a company of Warner Bros, which itself is owned by Time Warner. In the late 1934 or early 1935,DC was founded by Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson as national allied publications. the initials "DC" come from the company's popular series Detective Comics. DC have some of the most well-known characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Shazam, Hawkman and Green arrow. DC characters are often set in fantasy places, such as Gotham. There have been 115 DC superheroes and 29 films based on DC Comics!