I'm sure you've all seen Marvel's comments that "Our fans turned their nose up at diversity. They didn't want female characters out there. That's what we heard, whether we believe that or not."

They don't admit any culpability in their slumping sales, they just blame the RACIST SEXIST SCUM who are their customer base. As many have suggested here, maybe it's the unending crossovers and events, not that their buyers are monsters.

Marvel thinks the problem with lady Thor making out with black Captain America on their cover while Nazi Steve Rogers and tween Irongirl look on is that their customers are bigots. Not that they mangled the legacy of their mainstays and made it so most of their readers no longer identify with them.