9 Reasons Why DC Really Is Better Than Marvel

9. They Pioneered Legacy Characters

Full disclosure: Marvel's legacy characters are brilliant. Miles Morales, Kamala Kahn, Kate Bishop, Jane Foster's Thor - all of them have led Marvel's best comics since their introduction. The only reason why DC excel in respect to legacy, however, is that they've just been doing it longer; there's a real sense of history when it comes to mantles and the generational delineation between each successive change.

With Marvel, it took Peter Parker almost fifty years to have a true successor, and previous attempts to create legacies of their other characters resulted in embarrassing and poor imitations of the originals, exemplified in full by the nightmarish inflections of nineties Marvel and characters like Thunderstrike and Teen Tony Stark.

With DC, there's a massive in-house history to make their world feel just that little bit more unique. The Flash isn't just one hero, but a legacy of scarlet speedsters who've been a part of the DC Universe since the forties; the Green Lantern Corps have had no less than six different human representatives; and Dick Grayson - the first Robin - has grown before our very eyes, transforming from a sidekick into a fully fledged hero of his own in Nightwing over forty years after his original debut.

It's not that Marvel are bad at fashioning legacies of their own - quite the opposite - it's more that they're just monumentally late to a game DC perfected a long time ago.