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With the recent focus on the big guns of DC and Marvel, is there a chance of a big success of a b-list or c-list character? I'm sure both companies have character that might not be the most popular, but might have a chance to be successful on the big or small screen. An example of this is Elongated Man.
Originally created when DC didn't know they had the rights to Plastic Man, Elongated Man has moved on from his beginnings to be a first-rate detective, likely at the same level as Batman. Although his superpower is stretching (as a result of drinking the juice of the gingold plant which interacted with his metagene), it is his ability as a detective that makes him distinctive, that and the fact that he had a very public identity (the only people who didn't know who he was were the ones that he hadn't gotten around to personally telling) and that he was very happily married (until the tragic death of his wife).
If done properly, Elongated Man could bring back the kind of detective story where a couple solves mysteries (much like I imagine the "Thin Man" series of mysteries were or, a more recent series, "Hart To Hart"). Unlike many characters in the 1980s, Elongated Man never went into the grim and gritty mode that other characters of that time did.
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