Yeah well the comics were different in different eras, Batman was dark as fuck when it started. Also marvel didn't offer anything like Watchmen or Dark Knight for along time. DC started Vertigo for mature readers with stuff like Sandman, Doom Patrol, Animal Man,
this is where such dope writers as Alan Grant, Peter Milligan, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Mark Millar came from (although DC stole them all from 2000AD). At the time Marvel was offering nothing like that.
Plus if you wanna really debate it, you could say the Marvel bit the entire concept of super heroes off DC, who were doing it years before. And didn't even bite it well, I mean isn't the Peter Parker secret identity just a total rip on Clark Kent?
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