Some hits and misses for Marvel who came out of dark time of 80s and 90s to finally find success.  Some mis steps then led to creation of MCU which took the company and brands to new heights.  We already know dozen or so more films will come in next decade so no shortage of Marvel anytime soon.

Going stronger than ever nowadays. You're welcome.

PS: Watch the extended cut of the Wolverine.  It doesn't fix the ending but DAMN those fight scenes get that much more awesome (loved the train fight in the original cut already)

poor disney, they miss the greatest of all action movies on this list because of technical thingis(the comic been made after the movies)

Very interesting summary of the Marvel history.

And 5 more films will be added next year.

Saving that image!

Now, I wish there was one for DC or better yet, ALL comic book films.

I'm slightly embarrassed to say I've seen 35 of these - some of them great, some awful, most pedestrian.

I think things started to turn around in 1998 with Blade and really broke through in 2002 with Spider-Man. The highlights for me are Blade II, X2, Spider-Man 2 (still my pick for the best superhero movie), Iron Man, and The Avengers.

And while things are obviously much better now than they were in the 80s and 90s, I worry about Disney's vision for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Building worlds and introducing new characters is fine, but in the end what I want are discrete movies, each with a fully-formed beginning, middle, and end.

Nice, lots of info