Top 30 highest grossing comic book movies with inflation added

Only Marvel and DC. In 2016 dollars.

1. The Avengers (2012) - $1.567 Billion
2. The Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - $1.405 Billion
3. Iron Man 3 (2013) - $1.236 Billion
4. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - $1.119 Billion
5. The Dark Knight (2008) - $1.105 Billion
6. Superman (1978) - $1.091 Billion
7. Spider-Man (2002) - $1.084 Billion
8. Spider-Man 3 (2007) - $1.017 Billion
9. Spider-Man 2 (2004) - $983 Million
10. Batman (1989) - $785 Million
11. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) - $777 Million
12. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - $775 Million
13. Deadpool (2016) - $758 Million
14. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) - $749 Million
15. Captian America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - $715 Million
16. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - $709 Million
17. Man of Steel (2013) - $679 Million
18. Iron Man 2 (2010) - $677 Million
19. Thor: The Dark World (2013) - $655 Million
20. Iron Man (2008) - $644 Million
21. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) - $539 Million
22. X2: X-Men United (2003) - $524 Million
23. Batman Forever (1995) - $522 Million
24. Ant-Man (2015) - $519 Million
25. Thor (2011) - $475 million
26. Superman Returns (2006) - $460 Million
27. Batman Begins (2005) - $454 Million
28. Batman Returns (1992) - $449 Million
29. The Wolverine (2013) - $422 Million
30. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - $412 Million

where did you get all these information, or how did you arrive at this list?

I did it myself. I got the information from Wikipedia and put the the gross and the years that each movie came out into this inflation calculator.

Interesting.

woi that's some serious dedication. What have you concluded from this list?

There's also one for just US gross here

Hurts to see Spider-Man 3 higher than Spider-Man 2 and Iron Man 2 and 3 higher than the first Iron Man.

I was expecting Burton Batman to be higher.

Its forth highest for US sales, the international gross is what brings it down.

The international market was much more closed prior to the 00s, we had to wait months for films to be released here. Releasing in every market across the world at around the same time is something that has only really been happening for a decade odd.

Batman (1989) probably did very well in Europe, its places like China and Russia that it would've lost out on.

Spider-Man 2 vs Spider-Man 3 is probably a similar case, Spider-Man 3 made less than 2 in the US but made up for it overseas, and the overseas market and importance had grown a lot during the three year interval period between those movies.

Not really. It took like ten minutes. Wikipedia had the info for all superhero movies on one page, so i didn't have to look it.

I'm surprised that Superman (1978) was essentially the most successful Superhero movie up until 2008. I'm not surprised about how big it was, I'm just surprised it took 30 years for another superhero movie to come out that was just as big. Also cool to see that Superman and Spider-Man are basically in the same league as The Dark Knight.

Keep in mind inflation and ticket prices don't automatically move up hand in hand. The system Box office mojo uses to adjust movies uses average ticket prices and isn't quite the same as this list.

It would put the older movies like Spider-Man and Superman even higher if you go off of just the ticket prices. Batman earned $251 million in America in 1989. If you adjust it for inflation it turns into $460 million. But Box Office Mojo has it at a equivalent of $547 million. Like @Silent_Bomber said, it is ranked number 4 over there. The prices of ticket sales go up faster then inflation. Probably because movies are more popular in general today.

Inflation still gives us the equivalent of what they made in total. Also, Box Office Mojo only goes off of the American number and tickets cost diffrent amounts in diffrent countries.

@gonnagetthat: I know all of that, that's why I am mentioning it. Inflation doesn't take into account the rise of things like Imax and 3d movies though which is why ticket prices rose at a faster rate than just inflation did.

@gonnagetthat:

That's interesting about Superman

Unfortunately you can't really account for inflation on worldwide numbers. Inflation has a different effect on each country.