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Originally Posted by CMIII

they become peg warmers faster because once you do one you do not need to keep making all 365 costumes. Heck look at some of the Alt Batmen produced 4 are the same with the addition of Damage on one, mud on another..

The thing is, if they were absolutely 100% pegwarmers, then someone would get the memo and stop putting out so many.

The bottom line is that Batman does sell, if not to the consumers, then at least to the corporate buyers (Walmart, TRU, Target, etc). Keep in mind, that while they're trying to get us to want their products enough to buy them, they also have to convince the big-box retailers to stock their products in the first place. Which is why they overproduce certain characters - the corporate buyers will readily go for something that has easily recognizable characters.

Which is why the TF lines have been so inundated with mass amounts of Bumblebees and Optimus Primes until very recently. At least now Hasbro's been able to make their cases equal-packs, so no character overwhelms another (in theory).

So while it absolutely makes one seethe, keep in mind that without your stupidly massive amounts of Batmen/Supermen/Flashes/Hal Jordans, the DC lines wouldn't have lasted as long as they have.