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Comic book movies have taken over the film industry over the past decade. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is now the highest-grossing movie franchise of all time. Early successes in the medium were Sam Raimi\u2019s \u2018Spider-Man,\u2019 Bryan Singer\u2019s \u2018X-Men,\u2019 and Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher\u2019s \u2018Batman\u2019 films. And Classics like the 60s \u2018Batman\u2019 television series with Adam West and the original \u2018Superman\u2019 movies with Christopher Reeve are the roots of the genre in television and film. The latter showed the potential of comic book adaptations critically and commercially. It was DC\u2019s \u2018The Dark Knight\u2019 that revolutionized the genre, though. This Christopher Nolan film paved the way for studios making comic book movies their tent poles going forward.  Marvel and DC are the movies that usually get highlighted when looking back at the history and success of the genre, however, there are other realms of comic strips that are iconic in their own rights. They deserve to be highlighted for what they\u2019ve brought to the table. These other comic strips come in the forms of graphic novels, manga, and comics (outside of Marvel and DC) that were adapted to film and television with enormous success.\t

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