“Superhero Smackdown” by Douglas Wolk, comperes the two giants of comic books Marvel and DC and the reasoning of why one is ahead of the other one after decades of competing. Both companies are gaining popularity in the consumers market in the form of movies. Through all the difference between the two, Wolk leans to one of the companies and makes is argument of why. Wolk start be stating the parallels of the comic books both companies are mass producing. Wolk choses the two big characters that have always had the most in common, Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne and how they play a role in recent years. In the beginning the companies used each other in a compative way by reusing some of the characters but with few changes to introduce in their own