The evaluation of superheroes can cover many questions: Physical prowess? Keen deductive skills? The ability to banter well with super villains?

Regardless, those choices, and others, are points of contention among the comic-loving crowd; from their inception to their demise, fan-boys will verbally bash each other about what is better.

One of the biggest questions, has long been: Which is better, Marvel or DC?

To judge this, I’ve gone over the stories of the heroes. I want to take a cursory glance at what makes them interesting and what drives fans to collect for reasons beyond the art.

Without wasting your time with a bunch of in-depth analysis, I’m just going to come out and say that DC has better superheroes.

I’ll be the first to admit, Marvel’s heroes have super-cool powers, and their stories are pretty easy to associate with as they tend to deal with many difficulties that can occur to real people.

But then, when I read a comic, I want drama. I want a Shakespearean episode. What I don’t want is “Jersey Shore” but with the X-Men cast.

Superheroes are cut from a stock greater than normal men. The powers are cool and all, but the stories around them are the real draw.

Both companies have their share of lame filler and villain of the week crap, but that’s how the medium of comic books has developed. The problem is, Marvel’s superheroes evolved into real-people problems and desires. Their superheroes are sleeping with each other, getting drunk, going to parties, dealing with adolescence, all of this, while trying to save the public from random peril.

I want my superheroes to lead lives more interesting than mine; not the same but with the power to fly.

Now, DC superheroes do deal with some of the same stuff, but it resonates with you; you can be moved by the stories in DC more than by Marvel.

The characters in DC are lonely, alcoholic, sexual beings, but when you get down to the best stories, the ones that really grab you panel by panel, there is little contest.

Marvel’s best and most popular — try “Civil War” — offer super-powered stories that confront the world as we know it, in a way that super-intense action movies rock your senses.

Kinda like the film “Avatar” for the most part, but a lot less lame.

DC gives you superheroes who’s powers are secondary as they become lost to the lives they are forced to lead as heroes — try “Identity Crisis.” “Godfather” comes to mind as a fair degree of superiority.

Do you see where I’m going with this?

Marvel superheroes are mostly flash-bang, crowd-pleasers that let people step into their shoes, but lack deeper meaning; they have a couple that do delve deep, but they are few and far between.

DC has the same sort of big-boom confrontations, but tempers them with the larger than life feel of superherodom. Thoughts about putting yourself into the hero’s shoes are more thoughts of how difficult these situations are.

So, what it all boils down to, for me, is how the superheroes make me feel.

If I want to fantasize about being a bad-boy drunk with a penchant for redheads and smoking cigars, or a guy trying to do the right thing and swinging from building to building — also with a thing for a redhead — I’ll try Marvel.

But when I want something with substance, I’ll look to the lives of a group of super-powered folk, folk who have to deal with their loved ones being murdered, and the betrayal of finding out that the burden of superhero is more than the adventure; when I want to see the desire to do right pushed so far the characters are just duking it out. Characters who are forced to face themselves in the mirror and just keep doing what they know, even when it is wrong, I’ll choose DC.

To reiterate my point: Marvel’s superheroes are flashy and cool and suitable for youth and youthful escape — occasionally with some real story — but DC can do the same, with adult, not adolescent, themes that are above normal life.

That’s the whole of it really, DC is more than superheroes, they are superior-heroes with cosmic adventures and nitty-gritty psychology and bitter-sweet results. Marvel superheroes, as great as they are, rarely get further than the battle — hanging out at the entertaining level, and relying on a cameo, as opposed to a true dilemma.

Well, that, and Batman is just plain cooler than everyone Marvel has.