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The other thing is that there's no comparison between them making what, 7 crime films over 50+ years and comic book films that have engulfed the entire industry allowing almost nothing else space to breathe in its wake. I think that's where the feeling comes from, that it's pushing out everything else. And Westerns in the 40s-60s aren't a good comparison because it's not like 5-7 of the top ten films at the box office in a given year were comic book movies like it is now, most of them were B-pictures made for a quick buck.