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On the other hand, villains were banished to the periphery of society, he said. "The Marvel universe looks almost like a real social network," New Scientist quoted Gleiser as saying. However, even prominent arch-villains always played marginal social roles at the periphery of the network, he said. Gleiser said that the results of his analysis might reflect the restrictions on comic writers laid down by the rules of the Comics Magazine Association of America. While telling about one of such rules, he said: "Criminals shall not be presented so as to be rendered glamorous or to occupy a position which creates the desire for emulation." He further said that the institution's rules seemed to govern the victory of superheroes in almost every comic book. — ANI
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THE rules of the Comics
Magazine Association of America that restrict glamorous presentation
of criminals may be a reason why superheroes never lose to villains in
the children books, says a study. Physicist Pablo Gleiser of the
National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, analysed the social webs in 12,942 issues of Marvel
Comics, comprising of 6486 characters. When he linked two characters
appearing in same issue, Gleiser found a small fraction of characters,
especially the superheroes themeselves, had far more links than most
others, acting as key social hubs.