Marvel and DC differences, according to Stan Lee

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>“When Thor wants to fly, we use a scientific principle. He has his hammer, he has a leather thong attached to his wrist. He swings the hammer around faster and faster ’til it’s going like a propeller, and then he lets go of it — well, the hammer goes flying off into space, but the thong is wrapped around Thor’s wrist, so he goes with it. So you have hammer propulsion.

>“You’ve seen Superman flying on the screen, haven’t you? What is his means of propulsion? What makes him fly? He doesn’t have a jet engine, there’s nothing pushing him, he just sort of assumes a horizontal position, lies on the air and off he goes."

Making Marvel more realistic and giving scientific explanations to the powers is something that goes all the way back to Stan Lee.