Marvel, riding high off its major successes with the "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" movies, is digging deep into its catalogue and working on screen adaptations of Iron Man, Submariner, Thor, Silver Surfer and others. Superman is on his way back to the big screen, as is his DC colleague Wonder Woman. The decline of comic books since the 1970s made the issue largely irrelevant, but video games, online role-playing games and new movies are bringing the classic DC-Marvel conflict back to life. The difference between DC and Marvel used to be one of those cultural dividing lines - a slightly geekier version of the Beatles-vs.-the-Stones question. "Fantastic Four," which opens July 8, belongs to Marvel Enterprises Inc.'s comics. 1 flick last week and took in a not-bad $48.7 million in its opening weekend. His latest adventure on the big screen, "Batman Begins," kicked off as the No. Crime-fighter Batman, after all, is an employee of DC Comics Inc., a division of Warner Bros.
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