Given the payoff matrix (provided in the image) evaluate the following. 1. What is the dominant strategy of DC Comics? What would Marvel Comics choose given the dominant strategy of DC? Where are the firms doing as best as they can give the scenario, i.e., where is the Nash Equilibrium

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