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From 'The Walking Dead' to 'Wonder Woman,' Greg Steirer's 'The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood' gets to the bottom of a worldwide phenomenon
by Tony Moore
Taking a look at the movie industry, or the marquee at your local theatre, this last decade or so, one trend has become undeniable and inescapable: The big screens have been jammed full of movies adapted from comic books. Films series such as those based on characters like the Avengers, X-Men, Wonder Woman and Spider-Man, as a small sampling, have raked in billions of dollars over that stretch, and moviegoers show no signs of growing weary of drinking in the exploits of these costume-wearing superheroes. Jumping over to TV, comic-based series like