BOOKS
TIM GAINEY/ALAMY
IT BEGAN AS A PLAYGROUND ARGUMENT FOR REED TUCKER, WHO CAN remember schoolyard battles over which was better, Marvel or DC comics, or whether Hulk could whup Superman. But the idea for a book about the creators of his childhood heroes didn’t come until 2016, when Time Warner– owned DC Entertainment threatened to release its long-awaited superhero movie Batman v. Superman on the same day as the Disney-owned Marvel Studios blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. The internet exploded.