That's because Marvel knows how to make movies, and being forced to shackle themselves to the smaller budgets, rights-avoidance and balkanized niche-demographic kissups of television, can't compete with itself.
With Warner/DC, it's the exact reverse: Nolan/Snyder mania has made their...
Er, no, been into old radio since I was a kid, and none spring to mind:
Most of the non-DC comics--at least, if they weren't nationally syndicated newspaper comic strips like Tarzan, the Phantom or Flash Gordon--didn't register much cultural blip outside of 10-yo. comic readers' sheltered...
In fact, not to belabor the point too far, but....anyone who's up on their Golden Age comics, help me out here:
I'm sure he must've had some love interest, but DID the real 40's-comic Captain America ever rescue damsels in distress, like Superman rescuing Lois Lane from the train tracks?
All...
(I was prepared for the feminist male-bashing, but so help me, if they're going to feminist-bash old radio...I believe Margot Lane would have a few things to say about that. :angry: )
How many miniseries made the fatal step of trying to expand themselves to full-time series?
V: the Series, Twin Peaks (second season), Max Headroom: the Series...
(And as noted, it's not like we exactly have a current shortage of grim persecuted female procedural agents fighting to be taken...
Although the latest TV ads are trying to narrow down the demographic a little more:"In the tradition of Emily Thorne (Revenge) and Olivia Pope (Scandal), the latest to join ABC's lineup of strong women!"
Ohh, those male Marvel fans are going to be all over this show like ants on a sugar cube...