>>108547854>the success of much of the MCU was following his templateNo, no, you've misunderstood.
The Creative Committee existed so that the studio had people to call who knew the minutiae of comic book lore. There was absolutely no creative control from the committee itself - they were there to look up ideas for the actual creatives and offer *existing* stories that could be used to justify the kind of stories that actual screenwriters were pitching.
We know they had no creative input because they're all WGA members and none of them got writing or story credits for any of the movies they worked on before they were disbanded. While WGA members can forego credits, Bendis isn't the type and no production can force a writer to give up their credit where it's due.
They were disbanded - so the story goes - because they kept taking what they knew the studio to be doing and doing it in their own titles. This is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, not least because it means your movie has to minutely document the days on which meetings were had and the point at which ideas entered the production, otherwise you're open to a claim to have 'created' whatever story, costume, catchphrase by one of the guys who just ripped it off. There's also a claim that they kept sending their shitty scripts to studio people, which is just a very rude thing to do - you don't send unsolicited scripts to people you want to work for any more. It's not 1985.
Once the CC disbanded, Bendis handed in his notice at Marvel and his backlogged titles were left to print. After they finished, he was free to go to DC who were by then over in Burbank (where, ironically, he'll be closer than ever to the movies he wants to write and far more tightly controlled - he's never going to write one).
