Image Credit: ©2011 Marvel Entertainment, LLC ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ (2011).Like, for example, introducing some intriguing casting choices and what-if versions of legacy characters…and then literally exploding the entire idea before your very eyes. While you admittedly do need a PhD in Advanced MCU Studies to follow the plot - or at least know WandaVision inside and out - you don’t have to be a Marvel expert to dig how Raimi turns the last third into a cinematic haunted house while still delivering a superhero blockbuster, or the way he uses the multiverse concept to twist and tweak a lot of franchise lore. Welcome back, Sam Raimi! The Spider-Man director returns to the genre he helped level up and adds some very old-school, Evil Dead-era horror elements to this sequel, in which Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch, natch) and a young woman named America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) skip through alternate universes to stop Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) from tearing the fabric of reality asunder. From the campy to the grimdark, the late nights in Gotham City to the sunrises in Wakanda, these are the films that both define the genre and have helped turn the thrill of watching comic-book characters leap on to the screen into a multiplex lingua franca. So, after having navigated several cinematic universes and traveled through a host of multiverses, fought infinity wars and played endgames, rode shotgun with webslingers and prowled alongside dark knights and hung with so many supergroups that we’ve practically become charter members, we’ve ranked the top 50 superhero movies of all time. And when the one-two punch of the first X-Men movie and Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man hit theaters within a few years of each other, the stage was set for the first part of the 21st century to give birth to what’s now a Golden Age of Superhero Movies. Don’t even get us started on Saturday morning cartoons.īy the time superheroes started making their way back to the big screen in the late 1970s and the 1980s, these defenders of truth and justice had become universally recognized icons - you didn’t have to be a comic-book reader to know what that black-and-yellow bat insignia meant, or understand that a red mask with white eyes and a web design equaled your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Later, these comic-book characters would get co-opted by this newfangled invention called “television,” and you could tune in watch George Reeves move faster than a speeding bullet, Adam West and Burt Ward zap-blam-pow their way through a who’s-who of Bat-villains and Bill Bixby go from mild-mannered drifter to a raging green hulk. Thus, a few years later, serials like The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941), Batman (1943) and Captain America (1944) became matinee staples even the Man of Steel would get his own 15-part adventure in 1948. Naturally, the movies wanted in on this craze as well. 1 hit newsstands in June of 1938 and readers met Krypton’s number-one-son Superman, it was a big-bang event that kicked off what would become the Great American Superhero Obsession. You can also find information about referring a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) at Action Comics No. If you would like to know how we handle complaints, please ask for a copy of our complaints handling process. You may be able to obtain finance for your purchase from other lenders and you are encouraged to seek alternative quotations. We do not receive any commission for introducing customers to these lenders. We will only introduce you to these lenders. We can introduce you to a limited number of lenders who may be able to offer you finance facilities for your purchase. Product Partnerships Limited’s permitted business is to act as a Principal for a network of Appointed Representatives who arrange regulated credit facilities for customers who are purchasing goods from them.īensons for Beds Retail Ltd acts as a credit broker not a lender. Product Partnerships Limited’s FCA registration number is 626349 and its address is Suite D2 Joseph’s Well, Hanover Walk, Leeds LS3 1AB. 18 years or over, terms and conditions apply.īensons for Beds Retail Ltd is an appointed representative of Product Partnerships Limited which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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