The summer movie season is wrapping up and we’ve seen an interesting year when it comes to comic book films. For months debates have raged as to who is more successful, Marvel or DC, which movies were successes, and which were flops. The answers aren’t so simple and black and white, which is why I like to turn to data to give actual rankings as to who were winners and losers.

So far this year, seven films have been released based on comic books (counting Batman: The Killing Joke). This feature will be weekly until the end of the year, as some films are still in the box-office and there’s till more to come.

Doctor Strange has now been added to these stats, so expect things to shift a lot while that film goes through its theatrical run.

Of note:

• Suicide Squad now stands at $745.6 million. There was no new dollars in over the week, so looks like that’s the end of it’s run. The film is $2.2 million short of X-Men: Days of Future Past and currently the fifteenth top-grossing comic film of all time.
• Doctor Strange passed X-Men: Apocalypse‘s domestic and international gross this week and now is about $28 million higher than that film’s entire run. It currently ranks 25th for all comic films while the latter is 28th. What’s interesting is the film seems to be lagging domestically. Marvel films on average get 40.3% of their gross from the domestic run and 59.7% from their international run. Doctor Strange is just earning 31.76% domestically and 68.24% internationally. That’s the highest amount for any film in the Marvel cinematic universe and continues what feels like an upward trend of reliance on the international film market.
• DC’s films average $315.5 million a film domestically compared to Marvel’s $298.8 million. Internationally, Marvel earns $473.2 million and DC earns $446.8 million.

Here’s where this year’s movie crop stands as far as the actual numbers. Numbers are presented with and without The Killing Joke which did not have an international run, so was not included in that average to start:

Total Domestic Gross: $1.849 billion ($1.846 billion without Killing Joke)
Total International Gross: $3.070 billion
Worldwide Gross: $4.920 billion ($4.916 billion without Killing Joke)
Total Reported Budgets: $1.215 billion ($1.211 billion without Killing Joke)
Total “Profit”: $3.705 billion ($3.705 billion without Killing Joke)

Average Domestic Gross: $231.2 million ($263.7 million without Killing Joke)
Average International Gross: $438.6 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $615 million ($702.3 million without Killing Joke)
Average Budget: $151.8 million ($173 million without Killing Joke)
Average Profit: $463.1 million ($529.3 million without Killing Joke)

Now that we have those numbers down we can get a better idea as to how films have actually done this year. Below are various rankings of where films stand so far and if the films are above average (green) or below average (red):