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Many also had the support of the box office, including Spider-Man (No. 16) and Batman (No. 19), which both benefited from recent major motion picture reboots.
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The series -- about a group of space explorers given various superpowers after being hit by cosmic rays -- began a new era for Marvel Comics, signaling the start of their wave of Silver Age characters, including Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Iron Man and many more.
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The success of the Playstation 2 pushed the games division's profits up to 24.8bn yen from 4bn and films, including "Spider-Man" and "Men in Black II", pulled in 9.9bn yen, but was down on the 22bn yen a year ago.
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