User blog comment:Jamie/Episode 2 - Death in Comics/@comment-1456680-20140417060242

I can't name a single comic book character of any importance at all who died and stayed dead except for two: Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy. I think one of the reason Deadpool is so popular is that the character is a send-up of how ridiculously hard it is to actually die and stay dead in mainstream comic books.

But if you think Marvel kills and resurrects characters on a routine basis, wait until you look at what DC's been doing:

Let's see.... entire DC multiverse... died in the CRISIS, came back to life as one universe with a borked timeline, died again in Zero Hour, came back to life as one universe with a slightly less borked timeline, died again in Infinite Crisis but came back to life as not one but fifty-two different universes, all of which had a near-death experience in Final Crisis but survived thanks to judicious use of The Miracle Machine, and then died suddenly for not much of a reason only to come back to life as a complete different multiverse for no reason that anyone has ever been able to sufficiently explain to me while merging three universes into one apparently on a whim of one mysterious character who's motivations in this regard have never really been explained. So in summary, DC has killed off an infinite multiverse, a single universe (twice!) a 52-universe multiverse, and now all sense of cohesion and continuity. Beat that, marvel! ;)