Marvel and DC comics hold a joint trademark on the words “superhero” and “superheroes”. If you want you can tell stories about superheroes. You just can’t use the term in your advertising and marketing. Superman and Spider-Man can be called superheroes. Doc Savage and the Shadow cannot.
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Who was it called ’em
“Underwear perverts”
is that alowed>
I think that was Warren Ellis. The more “realistic” and Grim and Gritty that DC/Marvel make their characters the more the label applies.