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.

Of note:

• Suicide Squad now stands at $745.6 million. There was no new dollars in over the past three weeks, 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 currently sits at just under $635 million. The film passed Iron Man 2 in worldwide totals and is $10 million short of Thor: The Dark World worldwide, but it passed that film’s domestic total. The film will likely wind up seventh when it comes to worldwide totals for Marvel films when its run ends.
• Officer Downe almost doubled its earnings, from $470 to $850! When it comes to the below stats, the film is being treated like Batman: The Killing Joke. The film is mostly a video on demand release, so it likely won’t see a wide release.
• The Chair is currently not included in these stats. While the film is based on a comic, its release was done so through a service where receipts aren’t tracked in traditional ways.
• DC’s films average $315.5 million a film domestically compared to Marvel’s $301.3 million. Internationally, Marvel earns $475.4 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 and Officer Downe which did not have an international run or wide release, so was not included in that average to start:

Total Domestic Gross: $1.883 billion ($1.879 billion without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Total International Gross: $3.1 billion
Worldwide Gross: $4.983 billion ($4.979 billion without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Total Reported Budgets: $1.215 billion ($1.211 billion without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Total “Profit”: $3.769 billion ($3.768 billion without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)

Average Domestic Gross: $268.5 million ($208.2 million without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Average International Gross: $442.8 million
Average: Worldwide Gross: $711.3 million ($553.7 million without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Average Budget: $151.8 million ($173 million without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)
Average Profit: $538.3 million ($471.1 million without Killing Joke and Officer Downe)

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):