hermanthegerm wrote:
You are the one making the meaningless distinctions. I am saying comics heroes are comics heroes, precisely as stated in the title of this thread...................
 
You keep focusing on comics origin without qualifying why, yet you specifically state that sales for comics are down. I don't know what you are basing this on, as "comics" are now all over and distributed (not sold) in many different forms, including CD-Rom, video games, RPG or other table games, comic reprints, (plus reprinted collections in book or microfiche form,) online comics, emails, newspapers and comic magazines. Did you take all of these (and others I may be missing, for example, secondary and tertiary markets,) into account in your claim that they don't sell as well as they used to?

A role playing game or video game adaptation of a comic book stands in the same relationship as a film or TV show based on a comic book; not a comic book itself. Analogous situation; should we include DVD sales of J.K. Rowling based films in with the sales of her books? 

My other assertions:

I will note that sales of American comic books in the 1970's and 1980's generally paled compared to those of the 1950's and 1960's. 



ut the contours of the industry have changed almost beyond recognition. In 1950, Marvel and DC together sold roughly 13 million comic books a month. In 1968, they put out 16 million a month. Since 1993 the overall sales trend has been inexorably downward. For January 2010, all American publishers combined sold a total of 5.63 million comics.

This might sound like an industry marching toward oblivion, yet in 2009, Disney paid $4 billion to acquire Marvel (DC was already owned by Time-Warner). The reason for this gaudy valuation is that the comic books themselves are no longer important to the comic-book industry. They’re loss leaders. The real money is in the comic-book properties, which power toy and merchandise sales, theme parks, and above all else movie franchises. Since 1997, 26 comic book adaptations have gone on to gross more than $100 million at the box office. Twelve of these grossed more than $200 million. More—many more—are coming soon to a theater near you.

As a financial concern, comic book publishers are no longer in the publishing business: They’re curators of, and incubators for, extremely valuable intellectual property. To comic-book collectors, that’s very good news.

Anyway, origins in comic book usually presents a more discreet source. I wanted to keep matters "apples to applies" not apples to oranges. 
Again, I find it odd that in recent decades private eye film adaptations do not produce sequels, even though private eye novels still seem to sell reasonably well. Clive Cussler, Stephen Hunter and other authors (including, to a degree, Tom Clancy, who has not had a theatrical film based on his works in first run in theaters in almost a decade) have had mediocre to little success with media adaptations of their works.   

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