Hollywood’s been churning out superhero movies for more than half a century now, but it’s only in the past decade that they’ve really become an all-encompassing cultural phenomenon. With Green Hornet in theaters this weekend to kick off yet another year of superhero obsession, we put on our lab coats and started crunching numbers to try and figure out how it’s going. The answers may surprise you.

Here's the result, superhero movies by the numbers:


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