Marvel Comics was founded in 1939, as Timely Comics, however Marvel Studios was founded in 1993, by Avi Arad. It is based in Burbank, California at Walt Disney Studios. Marvel Studios is also owned by the Disney corporation. Marvel Studios has produced many famous comic book film properties, including the Iron Man and Captain America films, but perhaps their most famous properties are the two Avengers movies; 'The Avengers' (Known as Avengers Assemble in Great Britain), and 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron'. 'The Avengers' made $1,519,557,910 internationally, and 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' made $1,405,035,767 internationally, for a combined international gross of $2,924,593,677. Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced 12 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is a series of films which all take place within the same cinematic universe; meaning they all happen at roughly the same time in the same world. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has grossed over $9 billion internationally, making it the highest grossing film franchise of all time.
DC Comics
DC Comics was first established around late 1934, to early 1935, as National Allied Publications. It was founded by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. The film productions of DC Comics are produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, which is itself owned by Time Warner. They are well known for their heroic comic-book characters such as Batman, and Green Lantern. The character of Batman has been portrayed in numerous different film and television adaptations; the most famous of which is the Christopher Nolan film series, known as The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012) starring Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman. The Dark Knight character has also been portrayed by Adam West in the campy 60's television and film adaptations, and Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer and George Clooney in the 90's Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman film series. As well as DC Comics famous hero characters, the studio has also produced films based on works unrelated to that universe, such as Watchmen and V For Vendetta. DC Comics films are generally much darker than Marvel films, and contain less humor.
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