Daily Bugle The adventures of the staff of the newspaper beyond Peter Parker have been depicted in two series, "Daily Bugle" and "The Pulse". After Jameson suffered a near-fatal heart attack, his wife sold the "Bugle" to rival newspaper man Dexter Bennett, who changed the name to The DB (either standing for Dexter Bennett or "Daily Bugle"), and transformed it into a scandal sheet. Since after "Brand New Day" no one knows the secret identity of Spider-Man anymore, the animosity between Jameson and Parker is retconned as a simple financial question, with Jameson's heart attack coming right after a monetary request from
Superhero film as action, horror, fantasy, comedy etc. Almost immediately after superheroes rose to prominence in comic books, they were adapted into Saturday film serials aimed at children, starting with "Mandrake The Magician" (1939). Serials such as "Adventures of Captain Marvel" (1941), "Batman" (1943), "The Phantom" (1943), "Captain America" (1944), and "Superman" (1948) followed. In the following decades, the decline of Saturday serials and turmoil in the comic book industry put an end to superhero motion pictures, with the exception of "Superman and the Mole Men", starring George Reeves, which was a trial balloon for the television series "Adventures of Superman", compilations