Highest Grossing Comic Book Movies Adjusted For Inflation.

What I did was I searched up comic book movies on Box Office Mojo. I adjusted all their box office numbers for 2014. Then I added their adjusted US box office numbers and overseas box office numbers together, and this is the Top 25 results I got. Here they are:

The Top 25 Highest Grossing Comic Book Movies Adjusted For 2014 Inflation:

1. Superman (1978):

Box Office: $1,789,662,782

2. The Avengers (2012):

Box Office: $1,653,908,290

3. The Dark Knight (2008):

Box Office: $1,575,134,156

4. Batman (1989):

Box Office: $1,560,313,276

5. Spider-Man (2002):

Box Office: $1,474,691,001

6. Spider-Man 2 (2004):

Box Office: $1,241,245,691

7. Spider-Man 3 (2007):

Box Office: $1,234,679,620

8. Iron Man 3 (2013):

Box Office: $1,216,904,288

9. The Dark Knight Rises (2012):

Box Office: $1,150,104,701

10. Superman II (1980):

Box Office: $1,149,892,600

11. Batman Forever (1995):

Box Office: $996,409,358

12. Batman Returns (1992):

Box Office: $974,977,120

13. Iron Man (2008):

Box Office: $888,924,220

14. X2: X-Men United (2003):

Box Office: $873,112,361

15. Iron Man 2 (2010):

Box Office: $855,373,069

16. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006):

Box Office: $788,169,431

17. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012):

Box Office: $771,414,194

18. X-Men (2000):

Box Office: $769,106,493

19. Superman Returns (2006):

Box Office: $701,079,408

20. Batman Begins (2005):

Box Office: $695,496,809

21. Man of Steel (2013):

Box Office: $689,087,436

22. Thor: The Dark World (2013):

Box Office: $645,442,900

23. Fantastic Four (2005):

Box Office: $624,217,959

24. Thor (2011):

Box Office: $562,463,570

25. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007):

Box Office: $545,421,287

I was actually expecting 1989 Batman to be in first.

Cool, I knew Superman would be 1 though.

Dang, didn't expect to see the F4 films up there....

No Hulk? Awww...public just ain't into the guy I guess.

Cool list, idk why Fantastic Four and X-Men: The Last Stand are doing so darn high but still cool

Superman is #1....Aw yeah

So there's only ten that broke a billion? Interesting...

Wow Superman Returns is higher than Man of Steel? I'm kind of surprised by that

I'm happy to see that Superman is no.1, even though it wasn't the best superhero movie ever made (still great though), it's importance cannot be overstated. I'm also happy to see that despite people saying that MoS is the Superman for then next generation, it was almost tripled by the original (and out-grossed by Superman Returns).

It's amazing looking at the difference between the gross of The Dark Knight and its predecessor Batman Begins.

Superman is a really good movie.

Spider-Man 3 made the most of the Raimi films and its the worst of the 3, by far. So yea.

I usually prefer to look at tickets sold over grossing because films like avengers made like 5 dollars more on each ticket for doing it in 3D

@opelfl9201: Where did you find the overseas numbers?

I don't think these numbers are correct.

@xwraith: Superman is nearly 10 years older so the inflation would probably have been much worse.

True. Do the math on the tickets sold on the first Star Wars film. The numbers are just silly.

Still the numbers are incorrect. These are the movie sets for Batman and Superman, The Avengers and The Dark Knight should be higher than Superman.

@rustyroy: He's probably including worldwide sale being adjusted for inflation, while your link doesn't.

@maccyd: There isn't any clear record for adjusted oversees grosses for most of the old movies, those are very hard to calculate, that's why those are not listed. If we calculate the overseas grosses by comparing it to the domestic grosses them Superman comes in 2nd or 3rd I think.

Adjusting transformed Superman Returns’ box office of $391,081,192 into $701,019,408… Wow.

Interesting that the X-Movies are on the lower part of the list.

@opelfl9201:

I have seen an adjusted for inflation CBM list before, with Superman on the number 3 spot (and avengers wasn't even out yet)....it makes me wonder whose numbers we go by. and how accurate they are

how many sets of figures and data are competeing with eachother for use in data charts? or is the extended inflation rates change percentiles based on how many years of inflation numbers a movie has to go? (like a curve of relativity that modifies the normal inflation curve?)

It's more about the publicity and visions than movie quality in fact...and we've to look at what was diffused in the same time, when people think about going to the movies sometimes it's the movie based on the poster/cast/synopsis on the 10 minutes you've to decide that the less bad/more appealing is chosen.

And i thought at least 75% is people not knowing anything about comic culture but appealed by girls in tight clothes and explosion who're going to see those. Plus family thinking it's child material...you've got one or more kids plus one or both the parents et voila you're making numbers grow. Toys in restaurants, goodies given, convention month of publicity, event if the movie is lame you've bought your tickets and money is made. It's the word if bad press is made fast after the movie come in then people are less complaisant if not they're trapped

Wouldn't calculating inflation for the overseas be either wrong or really hard to do since different money has inflated differently?

https://moviepilot.com/posts/4029961

The above link has highest grossing superhero movies adjusted for inflation

It says,

1. The Avengers

2. The Avengers Age of Ultron

3. Ironman 3

4. Captain America civil war

5. TDKR

6. TDK

7. Superman (1978)

8. Spiderman

9. Spiderman 3

10. Spiderman 2

The figures seemed off and the OP had not provided a source or method of arriving at those figures.

I am amused by everyone in this thread taking this as if those are correct figures. I get skeptical at such figures calculated at popular websites let alone strangers posting unsourced information on forum threads. Lol

@ashokkumar95:

Soon it will look like this:

1. The Avengers

2. The Avengers infinity wars

3. The Avengers Age of Ultron

4. The Avengers 4

5. The Illuminate (Marvels premier team after Avengers. Will be BIG because marvel will use this team to announce the return of the Xmen and FF. Movie will feature ironman, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, Xavier, Reed Richards etc... This is how Marvel will keep the hype going)

6. Illuminati 2

7. MCU X-Men(will be HUGE! Featuring Cap, Spidey, Hulk, Thor etc..)

8. Ironman 3

9. MCU X-Men 2

10. Captain America civil war

That's how you know Marvel is pure fire. Even after adjusted for inflation Marvel will own all the top ten spots soon.