A UK perspective: the first comic I read regularly was 2000AD. A bad case of retro-futurism is affecting the name these days, but in '77 it seemed impossibly far off. But anyway. Frankly, in the 70's, in the face of 2000AD, the Marvel vs DC thing looked a bit like two losers squabbling over second place. OK these days both Marvel and DC have caught up (largely by poaching British talent ;-) ) but your favourites are the ones you grew up with. Reading that back it looks hopelessly trollish, but honestly it's not meant that way!