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47 unusual facts about DC Comics


4th Dimension roller coaster

In 2011, the first ZacSpin in the United States opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain as Green Lantern: First Flight, and is themed to the DC Comics superhero of the same name.

Alex Désert

From 1990 to 1991, he played police lab scientist Julio Mendez alongside John Wesley Shipp in CBS' superhero TV series based on DC Comics' The Flash.

Angus McKie

His illustrations often present highly detailed spacecraft against vividly colored backgrounds and high-tech constructions as demonstrated by his pioneering work on The Dome: Ground Zero for DC Comics imprint Helix in 1998.

Batman Live

Batman Live is a touring stage show, including theatrical, circus and stage-magic elements, that focuses on the DC Comics superhero Batman.

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by DC Comics under the Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992, a total of 30 issues in the run (and a couple of anthologies published separately).

Breathtaker

Breathtaker is a comic book four-part limited series published by DC Comics, with a collected edition published in 1994 under the Vertigo imprint.

Brian Ferrara

In the same interview, Ferrara says he was inspired to get into the comic book industry by such titles as Heavy Metal, Mad, Wolverine and Punisher from Marvel, Lobo and Batman from DC, Evil Ernie, The Crow, The Tick, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Children of Ares

The Children of Ares are fictional DC Comics deity characters based on Greek mythology.

Dan Steffan

His work for DC Comics during the 1990s includes inks on Animal Man #64 and cartoon art for licensed products associated with Batman: The Animated Series.

Dærick Gröss, Sr.

Gröss has worked for a number of comic book companies, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Malibu Comics, Heroic Publishing, Revolutionary Comics, Chaos! Comics, and Innovation Publishing.

DC Universe All-Stars

It is the followup to Mattel's previous 6-inch toyline DC Universe Classics, and focuses on characters owned by DC Comics.

Douglas Croft

Douglas Croft, born Douglas Malcom Wheatcroft (August 12, 1926 – October 24, 1963) was an early American child actor who is best remembered for being the first actor to portray the DC Comics character Robin the Boy Wonder as well as his secret identity Dick Grayson in the 1943 serial Batman, at sixteen years of age.

Eric Battle

He has illustrated numerous iconic characters for DC Comics and Marvel Comics including but not limited to Spider-Man, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman.

Following Milestone, Battle began freelancing for DC Comics, and soon after Marvel Comics.

Ertl Company

Ertl has also, on different occasions, acquired the licenses to produce die-cast vehicles and figurines as well as model kits for Looney Tunes, Garfield, Thomas the Tank Engine, Super Mario Bros. DC Comics, and Star Wars.

Fatman the Human Flying Saucer

Beck and Binder created Fatman long after Beck's popular creation Captain Marvel was canceled partly due to a copyright infringement suit with DC Comics.

Gammarauders

The game also had a 10-issue comic book series that was published by DC Comics.

George Papp

Best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running Superboy feature for DC Comics, Papp also co-created the Green Arrow character with Mort Weisinger and co-created Congorilla along with writer Whitney Ellsworth.

Graham Higgins

He has drawn cartoons and covers for Punch including the Chandleresque comic-strip "Luke Carew, Lone Wolf Detective - The Hogfather", Radio Times, Q magazine and others, and has also drawn for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and 2000 AD He is an associate artist with Comic Company, illustrating educational publications featuring health and social advice for children and young people.

Grrrrrrrrrrr!!

The Lichtenstein foundation notes that the inspiration for this image is a frame of Our Fighting Forces Number 66 (February 1962), which was published by National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics).

Hildegard von Krone

Drawn by Udon Entertainment for DC Comics, it served as a prelude to the events of the game.

Hunt Emerson

For the DC Comics imprint Factoid Books, in the 1990s, he did biographical comics on everything from Erich von Stroheim to Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Hüseyin Kalkan

In August 2007, British newspaper The Guardian, as an aside in the last of a 25 paragraph story concerning honor suicide in the region, claimed that Kalkan had been awarded damages by DC Comics for using his city's name in their Batman Comic book franchise.

Ilias Kyriazis

and since 2008 he's been working for American publishers, mainly IDW and DC's Zuda.

ILYA

His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis, Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Joe Simko

Among Simko’s instructors at the School of Visual Arts were Joe Orlando (VP of DC Comics and associate editor of Mad), Klaus Jansen, Sal Almendola, Carmine Infantino and many other professionals working in the field of comics and graphic storytelling.

Josef Rubinstein

Primarily working as an inker, his artwork has been published by major U.S. comics publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics.

Karl Kerschl

Karl Kerschl is a Canadian comic book artist, best known for his work on DC Comics books, including Adventures of Superman, Majestic, All-Flash and Teen Titans: Year One.

Kerschl has worked on various series for DC Comics, including Adventures of Superman, Majestic, All-Flash #1 and Teen Titans: Year One.

Luis Bermejo

He has illustrated a number of novels, and worked for a while with DC Comics.

Matthew Slotover

Matthew's maternal grandfather, Richard Kravitz was an American magazine publisher who introduced Esquire and DC Comics to the UK.

Memory RNA

The basic principle or the memory RNA was also used by comic book writer Alan Moore to explain the origin of DC Comics' character the Swamp Thing in Saga of the Swamp Thing #21.

Peter Lupus

Before this he was hired by the US Army to appear in a series of commercials playing the role of Superman with the permission of what is now DC Comics).

Ronnie del Carmen

He did Batman Adventures Holiday Special with Bruce Timm, Paul Dini and others, garnering an Eisner Award Best Single Issue in 1995; Batman Black and White Volume Two for DC in 2002; Dark Horse's Aliens Mondo Pest series.

Ryan Ottley

In the same interview, Ottley expressed his opinion on the submission process used by many aspiring artists, when he said, "I was talking to a DC editor once at a store signing that said in the last 15 years of working there they've accepted ONE artist through submissions, and I've heard Marvel is even less.

Sal Amendola

Sal Amendola (born 1948 in Italy) is an Italian-American comic book artist and teacher primarily known for his association with DC Comics.

Salaì

DC Comics' 1995 Vertigo series Chiaroscuro: The Private Lives of Leonardo da Vinci (later published as a graphic novel) tells a speculative story of a love affair between Leonardo and Salai.

Scudder Klyce

In that year, Alan Grant, a regular author of Detective Comics for DC Comics, made reference to Universe within the comic book.

SkyBox International

Other series were created under a master license for DC Comics.

Smash Comics

The title was used again in 1999 as a part of the DC Comics crossover story arc "Justice Society Returns".

Starslayer

Grell originally created Starslayer for DC Comics, but plans to publish it were halted after the mass cancellation of titles known as the DC Implosion.

Sung-Hi Lee

She has also appeared on television, in the Queen of Swords episode "The Dragon" (2001) and landing roles such as DC Comics villain Lady Shiva in 2002's Birds of Prey and the waitress Sophie on the soap opera Days of our Lives.

Superman Emergency Squad

The Superman Emergency Squad (sometimes called the Supermen Emergency Squad) is a fictional superhero team in the DC Comics universe.

Superman ice cream

The name of the ice cream comes from the colors of the comic book superhero Superman, though it is not licensed through DC Comics.

Sword of Sorcery

Published bi-monthly by National Periodical Publications, it ran for five issues in 1973, with a cover price of 20¢.

The Batman Chronicles

The Batman Chronicles is a series of comics published by DC Comics from 1995 to 2001, which lasted 23 quarterly issues and a series of collections.

Video Comic Book

The show panned and scanned silver age DC Comics such as Green Lantern, Swamp Thing, Sugar and Spike, The Flash, Adam Strange, Nutsy Squirrel, The Three Mousketeers, Doodles Duck, and The Atom.


1949 in comics

Boy Commandos (1942 series), with issue #36 dated November–December, canceled by DC Comics.

All-Flash

All-Flash, originally published as All-Flash Quarterly, was a comic book series published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals (DC Comics).

America vs. the Justice Society

America vs. The Justice Society is a four-issue comic book mini-series starring the Justice Society of America which was first published by DC Comics between January and April 1985.

Aristeas

This story appears to be referred to in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics: Aristeas was a poet who lived around 700 BCE, and became by transformation one of many ravens who have acted as both adviser and assistant to The Endless known as Dream.

Batman Live

With the Riddler, the Penguin, Poison Ivy, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Harley Quinn and even Batman's potential love, the thief Catwoman, all ranged against them as well, the new 'Dynamic Duo' faces the ultimate showdown.

DC Comics Two Thousand

DC Comics Two Thousand, also known as DC Two Thousand and DC 2000, is a two-issue miniseries by DC Comics in which the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America team up, via time travel, to stop the attempts of T. O. Morrow to alter the present by changing the past.

DC Direct

DC Direct was the collectibles division of DC Comics, the Time Warner subsidiary that publishes comic books and licenses characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Batman, Aquaman and Hawkgirl, from 1998 until April of 2012.

Duke of Oil

The Duke of Oil (Earl J. Dukeston) is a fictional cyborg supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.

Fax from Sarajevo

Friend and client Kubert, the highly regarded artist of DC Comics' Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, and many other titles, was one recipient.

Flash Comics

Flash Comics was an anthology comic book published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals (DC Comics).

Green Arrow and Black Canary

After Black Canary murders 'Green Arrow' on their wedding night, it is discovered that it was actually Everyman posing as him.

Hardcore Station

Hardcore Station is a location in the DC Comics Universe, a corrupt commercial satellite station with a population of several million in a free space zone between a number of trading civilisations.

History of the DC Universe

History of the DC Universe was an attempt to summarize the new history of the DC Universe to establish what was canonical after Crisis reformed the multiverse into a single universe.

Inferior Five

Afterwards they appeared sporadically after their own series was canceled, most notably in Showcase #100, one or two panels in Crisis on Infinite Earths, The Oz-Wonderland War #3 (March 1986), in a superhero Limbo in the Grant Morrison written Animal Man series.

Information broker

An example of an information broker in contemporary fiction would be DC Comics' superheroine, the Oracle, Edward G. Robinson's character Sol in the film Soylent Green, the Shadow Broker in the video game series Mass Effect, Nicholas Wayne, Rachel, Elean Duga, Gustav St. Germain, Carol, and the President of the Daily Days newspaper company in Baccano!, or Izaya Orihara in the anime Durarara!!.

Jean Loring

After the Spectre kills Nabu, the last and most powerful of the Lords of Order, the Presence's attention is finally drawn to him, and the Spectre is forced into a human host, finally stopping his mad rampage.

Jerry Robinson

During the mid-1970s, Robinson was a crucial supporter of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in their long struggle with DC Comics to win full recognition and compensation as the creators of Superman.

Joel Rose

Rose has edited and co-authored graphic novels for DC Comics, including La Pacifica (Paradox Press) written with Amos Poe and art by Tayyar Ozkan, and Get Jiro! (Vertigo) written with Anthony Bourdain and art by Langdon Foss.

Kia Asamiya

To that end, he has worked on projects with Image Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, as well as developing a manga adaptation of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century

Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century is a DC Comics comic book based on the Warner Bros. Animation-produced TV series Legion of Super-Heroes airing since fall 2006 on The CW, which in turn is based on the original DC super-team of the same name appearing in various DC titles since 1958.

Live action

Adaptations from comics include live-action film versions of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and X-Men, DC Comics' Superman and Batman, or manga such as Death Note, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka.

Mike Lilly

Lilly’s original art sketch cards can also be seen for the Revenge of the Sith trading card line, The Lord of the Rings Evolution and Masterpieces series, Frankenstein from Universal, The Vintage Poster Collection sketch cards from Breygent, The Complete Avengers from Marvel Comics/Rittenhouse Archives and DC Legacy archive editions from DC Comics.

Nodwick

They've also encountered characters who appear to be from other sources as well (a pageful of cameos including Xena and Harry Potter in one issue, Death from The Sandman appearing in another, Spider-Man being chased by an amorous Lolth in a comic strip in Dragon Magazine, etc.

Poni Adams

She is best known for her role as Nina in 1945's House of Dracula, but she also has the distinction of acting in early adaptations of both major DC Comics franchises: Batman, where she played Vicki Vale in the second Batman serial, Batman and Robin, and also a character in the first Superman television series.

Rafael Garres

Since then, Garres has worked for publishers like DC Comics, Fleetway and Crusade, cooperating with writers such as Alan Grant, Pat Mills and John Wagner on series like Lobo, Sláine, Judge Dredd, Jaguar God, The Spectre and JLA.

Roxy Rocket

After a lengthy absence from the DCU, Roxy made her first proper appearance in Batgirl #6-7, as one of the villains in Roulette's game, and is shown battling the new Batgirl, Stephanie Brown in the Batgirl #7 cover.

Sandy Hawkins

Sanderson "Sandy" Hawkins, formerly known as Sandy, the Golden Boy, Sands, Sand, and currently as Sandman, is a fictional character, superhero in the DC Comics universe created by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris.

Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.

Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. was an American comic book published by DC Comics, featuring the second Star-Spangled Kid and her stepfather, the original version's sidekick Stripesy.

Strange Adventures

Strange Adventures was the title of several American comic books published by DC Comics, the first of which began in 1950.

Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man

In the early 1970s author and literary agent David Obst suggested to Marvel publisher Stan Lee and DC editorial director Carmine Infantino that there should be a feature film crossover featuring Marvel's Spider-Man and DC's Superman characters.

The Unexpected

The Unexpected was a DC Comics horror comic book series, a continuation of Tales of the Unexpected.

Tomm Coker

Coker's career started in the early nineties drawing comic books for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

Valerie D'Orazio

At Acclaim Comics she helped edit Shadowman and Magnus Robot Fighter and at DC Comics she assisted on such titles as Justice League of America and Identity Crisis.

Warlock of YS

In JSA #54, The Warlock of Ys recently resurfaced, this time allied with the Justice Society of America's old foe, Kulak the Sorcerer.

Young Heroes in Love

Young Heroes in Love was an American comic book series published by DC Comics; it ran for 18 issues (including the #1,000,000 issue) from 1997 to 1998.