Comic-book movies are a big business. As with horror and sci-fi, genre films have taken a step out of the dark (or the page, in this case) to become true cultural phenomenons. They're now a multi-billion dollar industry that dominates any year's film release schedule, with the trailers, cast announcements and costume changes becoming events in themselves.
Now, what with the genre-expanding to include everything from brooding anti-heroes or spandex-clad defenders of justice, tales of action, adventure, murder, mayhem and, er, record-collecting, we've knuckled down and picked the 50 best comic-book flicks ever made.
