What exactly is is the value of cape comics over their adaptations? Aren't they just a tangled soap opera with no clear vision or satisfaction? If a hero kills a villain, he'll be resurrected in a few years. If two characters get married, a new editor will find a way to erase it when sales are down. The adaptations aren't much better, but they at least tend to exist as standalone works, without being beholden to some nonsensical concept of canon. And yet people still talk about Marvel and DC comics as is they're the real thing and everything else is just an inferior extraction.

>>149570417 (OP)
The virtue about adaptation is that it can distill a product to its core ideas. Sam Raimi was able to do that with his Spider-Man movies, Bruce Timm with his Superman and Batman animated shows, and so goes for Teen Titans, and of course, Spectacular Spider-Man

Of course, their success is based on piles and pikes of material of their respective character from.wbich they were able to pick and choose the best ones.

Of course, this is a very adaptation centric view where comics are just seen as lego pieces but that is how adaptations have largely trounced their progenitors.