Quote Originally Posted by carabas View Post
You're selling Iron Man short.
Even before the movie his visibility got a massive boost from Civil War and the fallout from that.

As a debut film, a film that's more pure sci-fi than superheroes, like Captain America or Thor, was the safest bet to reach not the comics crowd but the mainstream audience.

And those three, plus the Hulk, really are Marvel's biggest properties until such time they regain control of the X-Men and Spider-Man. Which isn't likely to happen any time soon, if ever.
I guess I cant argue with that. I pretty much knew Iron man was gonna do well before the movie was released and Thor also looked like it was going to pull some bucks too.