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Absence of Women and Minorities in Marvel and DC top 50 poll

Started by Anthony · 10 months ago

Comic Book Resources recently did a poll on the where readers were asked to give there favorite characters.   I noticed a couple of interesting things.  DC had one minority (Black Adam) in the entire top 5o, Marvel had 3 ( Storm, Luke Cage, and% ... Continue reading »

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  • Yeah, I will admit, it WAS a bit disconcerting how poorly minority characters fared in the voting. I mean, we're talking almost 600 voters, and yet minority characters barely got any support.

    You do not want to know how low Black Lightning was - it was freakish how little support he received.
  • I am not surprised at all. I wouldn't expect the "typical" comic book fanboy to support any minority comic book character to any significant degree.

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