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Man of Steel fails to fly into first place in eBay.co.uk superhero ranking

As the much-anticipated Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice hits the big screen and the iconic superheroes battle in the ultimate power struggle, eBay.co.uk has seen Batman outselling his rivals with two pieces of merchandise every minute on the site .


In the last three months, more than 200,000 Batman related items have sold on site , with listings including limited edition figurine collections, yours for £4,000  and comics and DVDs starting at 99p . Rival superhero and ‘son of Krypton’ Superman fails to keep up with the ‘caped crusader’,  flying into second place, selling just 74,000 products in the last three months, that’s only 35 per hour compared to Batman’s 94 .


Surprisingly, in third place is the green goliath; Hulk, selling more than 50,000  items with current listings including limited edition comics, signed pictures and toys . While loveable Iron Man makes it into fourth place selling just over 500 products per day , ranging from a 7ft statue to miniature action figures .


Despite the previous success of The Amazing Spider-Man movies, the spider-web shooting superhero fails to make it into the top five - poor Peter Parker. 
eBay.co.uk’s Superhero characters collectables ranking :            

               
1. Batman
2. Superman
3. Hulk
4. Iron Man
5. Thor


  Data taken from eBay.co.uk 20.12.15 – 18.03.16
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