How come DC and Marvel aren't producing superhero and/or supervillain comics about Covid-19?

This a silly question.

Viz have been dealing with it. In a recent Gilbert Ratchet the vicar blames the pandemic on God being angry with him for nicking a curly wurley when he was a kid. Gilbert invents a time machine to fix things but inadvertently ends up taking a whole wagon load of curly wurlies back to the future pissing God off even more.

I won’t spoil the ending for you.

That's what I thought. Comic publishers want kids, especially kids, and general audiences to take the pandemic seriously.

However, I think if DC and Marvel, and/or any of the other major comic book publishers, made PSA comics centered around it that featured superheroes and/or supervillains that would drum up a LOT OF COMIC BOOK SALES.

9/11 was a major world-changing event, as were other recent terrorist attacks, but they didn't impact anyone's personal health. Yes, a lot people were killed and injured in 9/11 and in other terrorist attacks but the world moved on. I don't know about how many casualities there were in the other attacks but I doubt that in total including the ones from 9/11 that the count was anywhere in the millions. People weren't required to take personal safety precautions to protect their health.

There were a number of other pandemics and epidemics that transpired in recent years but how come they weren't nearly as bad as the Covid-19 pandemic?

There was no major public panic when swine flu broke out in the U.S. a few years ago and thankfully the recent Ebola outbreak from a few years back was only an issue in Africa.

My younger brother owned a copy of this comic book. In hindsight I wished I had saved it, it would probably be worth something if I took it to an appraiser.

It was thrown out because it was mildewed.

There was an anti smoking campaign over here fronted by superman in which he would fight the evil Nick ‘O Teen. It appeared as a comic strip as an advert in ordinary comics.

Initially it was quite successful until someone pointed out that superman sweet cigarettes were also on sale.

They still sell them but they’re not called cigarettes any longer, candy rolls, or something like that, and one of the ends isn’t red.

Both DC and Marvel have produced health PSAs in their comics, advising readers to maintain social distancing, regularly wash their hands, and wear masks. I linked to a couple of them previously but as usual, you forgot about them.

Also, the pandemic is not really well suited for any major storylines. There is no enemy with a face, so there is no antagonist for the heroes to fight against.. And each of their fictional universes are advanced enough to produce vaccines in a much shorter time frame.

Not to mention, several superheroes are immune and can't be sick.

Okay. What about the supervillains? Are a a large number of them immune too?

Cigarette smoking and drug abuse isn't a big issue with kids and teens in THIS century, in THIS generation.

Anti-smoking and anti-drug abuse PSAs were far more commonplace in the U.S. in the '80s and '90s at least.

I have not seen any anti-drug abuse PSAs on TV recently. The only anti-smoking PSAs I have ever seen lately on TV is for the Truth campaign:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_(anti-tobacco_campaign)

So why did you bring up the anti smoking Spider-Man comic?

When was this? I don't recall seeing any.

For the same reason I brought up the one about world famine. I was just using these as examples of classic PSA comics.

There have been numerous comics in which supervillains play the hero or anti-hero for whatever reason.

Deathstroke was playing a hero or anti-hero when he was fighting Muslim terrorists in a recent comic series.

You could have supervillains playing the hero or anti-hero, but yes, I forgot about the fact that in these fictional universes there is very-advanced tech with which they could produce vaccines in a very short period of time.
This probably would not be very realistic.

They could produce stories in which characters with advanced healing factors (Superman, Wolverine, etc.) could give tissue and/or blood samples to help those infected with Covid-19. I think a LOT of people would read those.

But forget vaccines - the world's chief scientists and chief medical experts NEED TO CONCOCT A PHYSICAL CURE for the virus.

The characters in the comics need to concoct a physical cure for the virus.

Cures are very difficult to produce due to numerous factors (genetics, costs, etc).

We don't even have a cure for the common cold.



What you are asking for is not enough to fill 22 pages of a single issue. That kind of story is barely 2 pages (hero donates blood, cure is created, THE END).

Part of Marvel's Heroes At Home series

Thank you.

I don't know why but Flash washing his hands when they are covered by his costume struck me as funny.

Not DC or Marvel but there are several: