What is the relationship between video games and the comic book industry?

What is the relationship between video games and the comic book industry?

Abbie Heppe (Entertainment Editor, "Tips & Tricks" magazine) gives expert video advice on: What are some of the best video games based on comics? and more...

Well, comic books and video games have a lot of the same fan base; they attract a lot of the same people. Video games is one of the first places where you could do these amazing things that superheroes could, in a game. Spiderman for the Atari 26 was one of the first ports; very successful. And that was very successful because DC Comics and Atari were both owned by Warner at the time, so it was kind of easy to cross over when you own both of the companies. Since then, they've enjoyed a fairly successful run of comic-based games, and it's something that's going to keep… I mean movies, all the licenses are tied together at this point.