Neil de Grasse Tyson believes Marvel is "hands down" more scientifically accurate than DC.
"Oh, yeah. No question," the astrophysicist explained to ComicBook.com. "It's obvious. Marvel wins that contest hands down over DC Comics if for no other reason that almost, minus Thor and maybe one or two others that I've lost track of, almost everyone with powers in Marvel Comics, those powers are derived from something scientific that happened to them."
Tyson, who is promoting Cosmos: Possible Worlds on National Geographic, pointed to Spider-Man and the Hulk as examples of Marvel’s superiority in science.
"He's bitten while he's in a biology lab where there's a radioactive spider," Tyson said of Peter Parker. "There's the Hulk, who... it was gamma rays," he added. "Everybody's got a science-based story behind their superpowers, and that creates a fertile landscape that you can go back to if you need to. Plus, Banner was a medical doctor, for goodness' sake. So, this has value."
Tyson will be hosting Cosmos: Possible Words, now in its second season. The acclaimed series is a follow-up to the 1980 PBS show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which was hosted by renowned astronomer Carl Sagan, who also wrote a book of the same name.