DC Comics

DC Comic are a well known brand of comic books and has featured great like Spiderman, Batman, and Wonder Woman which have all been legends of TV and movies. They are owned by Warner Brothers Entertainment, a division of Time Warner.

I think the world fell in love with comic books back in the 1800's when dime novels were published about the big bad west. I know I fell in love with them when they use to be on the cereal boxes when I was a kid.

The adventures of a comic book hero is like your own adventure into heroism. The hero always gets the girl and always smashes the bad guy. They fight for truth and justice and the american way.

DC Comics was founded as National Allied Publications in 1934 by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson in 1934 to publish New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (Feb. 1935), later known as More Fun. This groundbreaking comic book was the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips.The cover art was by WC Brigham.

Now in comics they go by Different ages like the Golden Age, Silver Age, Modern Age and Bronze Age. These are categorized by the age in time and the first one the Golden Age began with the merging of the two companies: National Allied Publications and Detective Comics, Inc., to form National Comics, which in 1944 absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines' and Liebowitz's All-American Publications.

During this time there was a lot of merging and suing for copyright infringement...like when they sued the owner of Wonder Woman cause they claimed it was a remake of Superman. If that is not a crazy suite.. then I don't know what is .. but it happened. They seem to get it all ironed out and that is what is known as the Golden Age. This age also gave way to the genres like science fiction, westerns, humor and romance. At this time DC Comics also published horror and crime titles which were tame. At the end of the Golden Age of Comics a handful of publishers were still in existence.

Now to the Silver Age, this began in the mid 1950s. Characters were revamped and republished "The Flash" was updated and modernized with a costume and an identity. When that became popular they started revamping all the other characters such as the Green Lantern and introduced the team of Justice League of America.

This is when characters such as Supergirl, Bizarro and Braniac were introduced. The Batman titles introduced were Batwoman, Bat Girl and Bat Mite. The TV show Batman come on in the 1960s.

As the competition got fierce from Marvel Comics in the Silver age, DC comics infused new titles and characters and recruited new talent. In 1969, National Comics merged with Warner Bros/7 Arts. Then a creator at Marvel moved to DC Comics and began some new series such as New Gods, Mister Miracle and the Forever People with archvillian Darkseid and the realm of Apokolips.

In January of 1976, the Bronze Age began. Now competing heavily with Marvel Comics, DC comics they surged ahead with characters like Firestorm and Shade and the changing man. The price of the comic books were from 35 cents to 50 cents. The length was eight pages back up features and some were full length at 25 pages. This movement by the company was called the "DC Explosion" The New Teen Titans began and rivaled the X-Men series of the Marvel Comics.

With British Invasion characters imerging at this time the company started steering away from particular titles scripted by those talents, but also established in 1993 the Vertigo mature-readers imprint. In the Mid 1980s, the DC war comics ended, titles such as Sgt. Rock, GI Combat, the Unknown Soldier and Weird War Tales. Also in 1989, DC began publishing the DC Archive Editions.

Then the 1990s began which started the Modern Age. This age killed off Superman, crippled Batman and the Green Lantern turned into a super villian.

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