DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc.

Parent company DC Entertainment

(Warner Bros.)

(WarnerMedia Studios & Networks)

(WarnerMedia)

(AT&T)

Status Active

Founded 1934; 86 years ago[1] (as National Allied Publications)

Founder Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Country of origin United States

Headquarters location 2900 West Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California

Distribution

Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors (direct market)[2]

Penguin Random House Publisher Services (trade paperbacks and graphic novels)

Key people

Jim Lee (Publisher, CCO)

Marie Javins (Editor-In-Chief)

Publication types List of publications

Fiction genres

Superhero

Fantasy

Science fiction

Action

Adventure

Imprints List of imprints

No. of employees ~230[3]

Official website www.dccomics.com

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment,[4][5] a subsidiary of the Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia's Studios & Networks division. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies. The majority of its publications take place within the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. The universe also features well-known supervillains who oppose the superheroes such as Lex Luthor and the Joker. The company has published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Fables and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo.

The initials "DC" are in reference to Washington, D.C. as the company was formerly called National Comics. Originally in Manhattan at 432 Fourth Avenue, the DC Comics offices have been located at 480 and later 575 Lexington Avenue; 909 Third Avenue; 75 Rockefeller Plaza; 666 Fifth Avenue; and 1325 Avenue of the Americas. DC had its headquarters at 1700 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, however DC Entertainment relocated its headquarters from New York to Burbank, California in April 2015.[6]

Penguin Random House Publisher Services distributes DC Comics' books to the bookstore market,[7] while Diamond Comic Distributors supplied the comics shop direct market[6][8] until June 2020, where Lunar Distribution and UCS Comic Distributors, who already distributed to the direct market due to Diamond's distribution interruption as a result of the  pandemic, replaced Diamond to distribute to that market.[2] DC Comics and its longtime major competitor Marvel Comics (acquired in 2009 by The Walt Disney Company, WarnerMedia's main competitor) together shared approximately 70% of the American comic book market in 2017,[9] though this number may give a distorted view since graphic novels are excluded. With the sales of all books included, DC is the second biggest publisher, after Viz Media, and Marvel is third.[10]

History

Golden Age

Pioneers of DC Comics who started in the 1930s.[11]

Malcom Wheeler-Nicholson Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster Bob Kane Bill Finger Sheldon Mayer Gardner Fox

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster Bob Kane Bill Finger Sheldon Mayer Gardner Fox

Founder of DC Comics Creator of Superman Creator of Superman Creator of Batman Creator of Batman Early founder Created various characters

Cover art of the first comic book by National Comics Publications that is cover dated February 1935. Characters such as the Western character Jack Wood that is featured were original characters not from comic strips unlike comic book magazine series before.[12]

Entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in Autumn 1934 intended as an American comic book publishing company.[1][13][14] The first publishing of the company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 (the first of a comic series later called More Fun Comics) with a cover date of February 1935. An anthology title essential for containing original stories not reprinted from newspaper strips unlike many comic book series before.[12][15] While superhero comics are what DC Comics is known for throughout modern times, the genres in the anthology titles consisted of funnies, Western comics and adventure-related stories starting out. The character Doctor Occult, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in December 1935 within the issue No. 6 of New Fun Comics, is considered as the earliest recurring superhero created by DC that is still used.[16][17] The company created a second recurring title called New Comics No. 1 released in December 1935 which would be the start of the long-running Adventure Comics series featuring many anthology titles as well.[18]

Wheeler-Nicholson's next and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date. The themed anthology that revolved originally on fictional detective stories became in modern times the longest-running ongoing comic series. A notable debut in the first issue was Slam Bradley created in contribution by Malcom-Wheeler-Nicholson, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.[17] In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson had to take Donenfeld on as a partner to publish Detective Comics No. 1. Detective Comics, Inc. (which would help inspire the abbreviation DC) was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfeld's accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler-Nicholson remained for a year, but cash-flow problems continued, and he was forced out. Shortly afterwards, Detective Comics, Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction.[19]

American comic books such as Action Comics#1 and Detective Comic#27 were essential in introducing two well known superheroes to life: Superman and Batman.

Action Comics No. 1, the iconic issue that introduced Superman and helped birth the superhero genre

The rare and valuable Detective Comics No. 27 (as shown above)

Meanwhile Max Gaines, formed the sister company All-American Publications around 1938.[20] Detective Comics, Inc. soon launched a new anthology title, entitled Action Comics. Issue#1, cover dated in June 1938, first featured characters such as Superman by Siegel and Shuster, Zatara by Fred Guardineer and Tex Thompson by Ken Finch and Bernard Baily. It is considered to be the first comic book to feature the new character archetype—soon known as "superheroes" and was a sales hit bringing to life a new age of comic books with the credit going to the first appearance of Superman both being featured on the cover and within the issue. It is now one of the most expensive and valuable comic book issues of all time.[21] The issue's first featured tale which starred Superman was the first to feature an origin story of superheroes with the reveal of an unnamed planet later known as Krypton that he is said to be from. The issue also contained the first essential supporting character and one of the earliest essential female characters in comics with Lois Lane as Superman's first depicted romantic interest.[22] The Green Hornet inspired character known as the Crimson Avenger by Jim Chamber was featured in Detective Comics No. 20 (October 1938). The character makes a distinction of being the first masked vigilante published by DC.[23][24] An unnamed "office boy" retconned as Jimmy Olsen's first appearance was revealed in Action Comics #6's (November 1938) Superman story by Siegel and Shuster.[25][26]

Starting in 1939, Siegel and Shuster's Superman would be the first comic derived character to appear outside of comic magazines and later appear in newspaper strips starring himself which first introduced Superman's biological parents, Jor-El and Lara.[27] All-American Publications' first comic series called All-American Comics was first published in April 1939.[22] The series of Detective Comics would make successful history as first featuring Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in issue#27 (March 1939) with the request of more superhero titles. Batman was depicted as a masked vigilante depicted as wearing a suit known as the Batsuit along with riding a car that would later be referred to as the Batmobile. Also within the Batman story was the supporting character, James Gordon, Police commissioner of what later would be Gotham City Police Department.[28] Despite being a parody, All-American Publications introduced the earliest female character who would later be a female superhero called Red Tornado (though disguised as a male) in Ma Hunkel who first appeared in the "Scribbly" stories in All-American Comics No. 3 (June 1939).[29] Another important Batman debut was the introduction of the fictional mansion known as Wayne Manor first seen in Detective Comics No. 28 (June 1939).[28] The series Adventure Comics would eventually follow in the Action Comics and Detective Comics series footsteps with featuring a new recurring superhero. The superhero called Sandman was first written in issue No. 40 (cover date: July 1939).[30] Action Comics No. 13 (June 1939) introduced the first recurring Superman enemy referred to as the Ultra-Humanite first introduced by Siegel and Shuster, commonly cited as one of the earliest supervillain in comic books.[31] The character Superman had another breakthrough with progress when the character had his own comic book starring him which was unheard of at the time.[32] The first issue introduced in June 1939 helped directly introduce Superman's adoptive parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent by Siegel and Shuster.[25] Detective Comics #29 (July 1939) introduced the Batman's utility belt by Gardner Fox.[33][28] Outside of DC's publishing, a character later integrated as DC was introduced by Fox Feature Syndicate named the Blue Beetle released in August 1939.[34][35] Fictional cities would be a common theme of DC. The first revealed city was Superman's home city, Metropolis, that was originally named in Action Comics No. 16 in September 1939.[36][37] Detective Comics No. 31 in September 1939 by Gardner Fox, Bob Kane and Sheldon Moldoff introduced a romantic interest of Batman called Julie Madison, the weapon known as the Batarang that Batman commonly uses along with the fictional aircraft called the Batplane.[28] Batman's origin would first be used in Detective Comics No. 33 (Nov. 1939) first depicting the death of Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne by a mugger. The origin story would remain crucial for the fictional character since the inception.[12][38] The Daily Planet (a common setting of Superman) was first named in a newspaper strip of Superman around November 1939.[39] The superhero Doll Man was the first superhero by Quality that DC now owns.[40] Fawcett Comics was formed around 1939 and would end up as DC's original competitor company in the next decade.[41]

National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc., forming National Comics Publications on September 30, 1946.[42] National Comics Publications absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines' and Liebowitz' All-American Publications. In the same year Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics. At that point, "Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, [the self-distributorship] Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications".[43] National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1961.[44][45]

Despite the official names "National Comics" and "National Periodical Publications", the company began branding itself as "Superman-DC" as early as 1940, and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.[46]

Beck wearing a suit and holding a stylized lightning bolt, like on Captain Marvel's suit

Captain Marvel creator C. C. Beck (1910–1989) at the October 1982 Minneapolis Comic-Con. DC purchased many of their competitors' comic stables, including Fawcett Comics, whose Beck-created Captain Marvel was central to a lawsuit with DC.

The company began to move aggressively against what it saw as copyright-violating imitations from other companies, such as Fox Comics' Wonder Man, which (according to court testimony) Fox started as a copy of Superman. This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics' top-selling character (see National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.). Faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1953 and ceased publishing comics. Years later, Fawcett sold the rights for Captain Marvel to DC—which in 1972 revived Captain Marvel in the new title Shazam! featuring artwork by his creator, C. C. Beck. In the meantime, the abandoned trademark had been seized by Marvel Comics in 1967, with the creation of their Captain Marvel, forbidding the DC comic itself to be called that. While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

When the popularity of superheroes faded in the late 1940s, the company focused on such genres as science fiction, Westerns, humor, and romance. DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid-1950s backlash against such comics. A handful of the most popular superhero-titles, including Action Comics and Detective Comics, the medium's two longest-running titles, continued publication.

Silver Age

Main article: Silver Age of Comic Books

In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz (whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase. Instead of reviving the old character, Schwartz had writers Robert Kanigher and John Broome, penciler Carmine Infantino, and inker Joe Kubert create an entirely new super-speedster, updating and modernizing the Flash's civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science-fiction bent. The Flash's reimagining in Showcase No. 4 (October 1956) proved sufficiently popular that it soon led to a similar revamping of the Green Lantern character, the introduction of the modern all-star team Justice League of America (JLA), and many more superheroes, heralding what historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comic Books.

National did not reimagine its continuing characters (primarily Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman), but radically overhauled them. The Superman family of titles, under editor Mort Weisinger, introduced such enduring characters as Supergirl, Bizarro, and Brainiac. The Batman titles, under editor Jack Schiff, introduced the successful Batwoman, Bat-Girl, Ace the Bat-Hound, and Bat-Mite in an attempt to modernize the strip with non-science-fiction elements. Schwartz, together with artist Infantino, then revitalized Batman in what the company promoted as the "New Look", re-emphasizing Batman as a detective. Meanwhile, editor Kanigher successfully introduced a whole family of Wonder Woman characters having fantastic adventures in a mythological context.

Since the 1940s, when Superman, Batman, and many of the company's other heroes began appearing in stories together, DC's characters inhabited a shared continuity that, decades later, was dubbed the "DC Universe" by fans. With the story "Flash of Two Worlds", in Flash No. 123 (September 1961), editor Schwartz (with writer Gardner Fox and artists Infantino and Joe Giella) introduced a concept that allowed slotting the 1930s and 1940s Golden Age heroes into this continuity via the explanation that they lived on an other-dimensional "Earth 2", as opposed to the modern heroes' "Earth 1"—in the process creating the foundation for what was later called the DC Multiverse.

DC's introduction of the reimagined superheroes did not go unnoticed by other comics companies. In 1961, with DC's JLA as the specific spur,[n 1] Marvel Comics writer-editor Stan Lee and a robust creator Jack Kirby ushered in the sub-Silver Age "Marvel Age" of comics with the debut issue of The Fantastic Four.[47] Reportedly, DC ignored the initial success of Marvel with this editorial change until its consistently strengthening sales, albeit also benefiting Independent News' business as their distributor as well, made that impossible. That commercial situation especially applied with Marvel's superior sell-through percentage numbers which were typically 70% to DC's roughly 50%, which meant DC's publications were barely making a profit in comparison after returns from the distributors were calculated while Marvel was making an excellent profit by comparison.[48]

However, the senior DC staff were reportedly at a loss at this time to understand how this small publishing house was achieving this increasingly threatening commercial strength. For instance, when Marvel's product was examined in a meeting, Marvel's emphasis on more sophisticated character-based narrative and artist-driven visual storytelling was apparently ignored for self-deluding guesses at the brand's popularity which included superficial reasons like the presence of the color red or word balloons on the cover, or that the perceived crudeness of the interior art was somehow more appealing to readers. When Lee learned about DC's subsequent experimental attempts to imitate these perceived details, he amused himself by arranging direct defiance of those assumptions in Marvel's publications as sales strengthened further to frustrate the competition.[49]

However, this ignorance of Marvel's true appeal did not extend to some of the writing talent during this period, from which there were some attempts to emulate Marvel's narrative approach. For instance, there was the Doom Patrol series by Arnold Drake, a writer who previously warned the management of the new rival's strength;[50] a superhero team of outsiders who resented their freakish powers,[51] which Drake later speculated was plagiarized by Stan Lee to create The X-Men.[52] There was also the young Jim Shooter who purposely emulated Marvel's writing when he wrote for DC after much study of both companies' styles, such as for the Legion of Super-Heroes feature.[53]

A 1966 Batman TV show on the ABC network sparked a temporary spike in comic book sales, and a brief fad for superheroes in Saturday morning animation (Filmation created most of DC's initial cartoons) and other media. DC significantly lightened the tone of many DC comics—particularly Batman and Detective Comics—to better complement the "camp" tone of the TV series. This tone coincided with the famous "Go-Go Checks" checkerboard cover-dress which featured a black-and-white checkerboard strip (all DC books cover dated February 1966 until August 1967) at the top of each comic, a misguided attempt by then-managing editor Irwin Donenfeld to make DC's output "stand out on the newsracks".[54] In particular, DC artist, Carmine Infantino, complained that the visual cover distinctiveness made DC's titles easier for readers to see and then avoid in favor of Marvel's titles.[55]

In 1967, Batman artist Infantino (who had designed popular Silver Age characters Batgirl and the Phantom Stranger) rose from art director to become DC's editorial director. With the growing popularity of upstart rival Marvel Comics threatening to topple DC from its longtime number-one position in the comics industry, he attempted to infuse the company with more focus towards marketing new and existing titles and characters with more adult sensibilities towards an emerging older age group of superhero comic book fans that grew out of Marvel's efforts to market their superhero line to college-aged adults. He also recruited major talents such as ex-Marvel artist and Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko and promising newcomers Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil and replaced some existing DC editors with artist-editors, including Joe Kubert and Dick Giordano, to give DC's output a more artistic critical eye.

Kinney National Company/Warner Communications subsidiary (1967–1990)

In 1967, National Periodical Publications was purchased by Kinney National Company,[56] which purchased Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in 1969. Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 (as National Kinney Corporation) and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc.

In 1970, Jack Kirby moved from Marvel Comics to DC, at the end of the Silver Age of Comics, in which Kirby's contributions to Marvel played a large, integral role. Given carte blanche to write and illustrate his own stories, he created a handful of thematically linked series he called collectively The Fourth World. In the existing series Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen and in his own, newly launched series New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People, Kirby introduced such enduring characters and concepts as archvillain Darkseid and the other-dimensional realm Apokolips. Furthermore, Kirby intended their stories to be reprinted in collected editions, in a publishing format that was later called the trade paperback, which became a standard industry practice decades later. While sales were respectable, they did not meet DC management's initially high expectations, and also suffered from a lack of comprehension and internal support from Infantino. By 1973 the "Fourth World" was all cancelled, although Kirby's conceptions soon became integral to the broadening of the DC Universe, especially after the major toy company, Kenner Products, judged them ideal for their action figure adaptation of the DC Universe, the Super Powers Collection.,[57] Obligated by his contract, Kirby created other unrelated series for DC, including Kamandi, The Demon, and OMAC, before ultimately returning to Marvel Comics.

The Bronze Age

Main article: Bronze Age of Comic Books

Following the science-fiction innovations of the Silver Age, the comics of the 1970s and 1980s became known as the Bronze Age, as fantasy gave way to more naturalistic and sometimes darker themes. Illegal drug use, banned by the Comics Code Authority, explicitly appeared in comics for the first time in Marvel Comics' story "Green Goblin Reborn!" in The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 (May 1971), and after the Code's updating in response, DC offered a drug-fueled storyline in writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams' Green Lantern, beginning with the story "Snowbirds Don't Fly" in the retitled Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 85 (September 1971), which depicted Speedy, the teen sidekick of superhero archer Green Arrow, as having become a heroin addict.

Jenette Kahn, a former children's magazine publisher, replaced Infantino as editorial director in January 1976. DC had attempted to compete with the now-surging Marvel by dramatically increasing its output and attempting to win the market by flooding it. This included launching series featuring such new characters as Firestorm and Shade, the Changing Man, as well as an increasing array of non-superhero titles, in an attempt to recapture the pre-Wertham days of post-War comicdom. In June 1978, five months before the release of the first Superman movie, Kahn expanded the line further, increasing the number of titles and story pages, and raising the price from 35 cents to 50 cents. Most series received eight-page back-up features while some had full-length twenty-five-page stories. This was a move the company called the "DC Explosion".[58] The move was not successful, however, and corporate parent Warner dramatically cut back on these largely unsuccessful titles, firing many staffers in what industry watchers dubbed "the DC Implosion".[59] In September 1978, the line was dramatically reduced and standard-size books returned to 17-story pages but for a still increased 40 cents.[60] By 1980, the books returned to 50 cents with a 25-page story count but the story pages replaced house ads in the books.

Seeking new ways to boost market share, the new team of publisher Kahn, vice president Paul Levitz, and managing editor Giordano addressed the issue of talent instability. To that end—and following the example of Atlas/Seaboard Comics[61] and such independent companies as Eclipse Comics—DC began to offer royalties in place of the industry-standard work-for-hire agreement in which creators worked for a flat fee and signed away all rights, giving talent a financial incentive tied to the success of their work. As it happened, the implementation of these incentives proved opportune considering Marvel Comics' Editor-in-Chief, Jim Shooter, was alienating much of his company's creative staff with his authoritarian manner and major talents there went to DC like Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Marv Wolfman, and George Perez.[62]

In addition, emulating the era's new television form, the miniseries while addressing the matter of an excessive number of ongoing titles fizzling out within a few issues of their start, DC created the industry concept of the comic book limited series. This publishing format allowed for the deliberate creation of finite storylines within a more flexible publishing format that could showcase creations without forcing the talent into unsustainable open-ended commitments. The first such title was World of Krypton in 1979, and its positive results lead to subsequent similar titles and later more ambitious productions like Camelot 3000 for the direct market in 1982.[63]

These changes in policy shaped the future of the medium as a whole, and in the short term allowed DC to entice creators away from rival Marvel, and encourage stability on individual titles. In November 1980 DC launched the ongoing series The New Teen Titans, by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, two popular talents with a history of success. Their superhero-team comic, superficially similar to Marvel's ensemble series X-Men, but rooted in DC history, earned significant sales[64] in part due to the stability of the creative team, who both continued with the title for six full years. In addition, Wolfman and Pérez took advantage of the limited-series option to create a spin-off title, Tales of the New Teen Titans, to present origin stories of their original characters without having to break the narrative flow of the main series or oblige them to double their work load with another ongoing title.

Modern Age

Main article: Modern Age of Comic Books

This successful revitalization of the Silver Age Teen Titans led DC's editors[65] to seek the same for the wider DC Universe. The result, the Wolfman/Pérez 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, gave the company an opportunity to realign and jettison some of the characters' complicated backstory and continuity discrepancies. A companion publication, two volumes entitled The History of the DC Universe, set out the revised history of the major DC characters. Crisis featured many key deaths that shaped the DC Universe for the following decades, and it separated the timeline of DC publications into pre- and post-"Crisis".

Meanwhile, a parallel update had started in the non-superhero and horror titles. Since early 1984, the work of British writer Alan Moore had revitalized the horror series The Saga of the Swamp Thing, and soon numerous British writers, including Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison, began freelancing for the company. The resulting influx of sophisticated horror-fantasy material led to DC in 1993 establishing the Vertigo mature-readers imprint, which did not subscribe to the Comics Code Authority.[66]

Two DC limited series, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Watchmen by Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, drew attention in the mainstream press for their dark psychological complexity and promotion of the antihero.[67] These titles helped pave the way for comics to be more widely accepted in literary-criticism circles and to make inroads into the book industry, with collected editions of these series as commercially successful trade paperbacks.[citation needed]

The mid-1980s also saw the end of many long-running DC war comics, including series that had been in print since the 1960s. These titles, all with over 100 issues, included Sgt. Rock, G.I. Combat, The Unknown Soldier, and Weird War Tales.

Time Warner/AOL Time Warner/WarnerMedia unit (1990–present)

In March 1989, Warner Communications merged with Time Inc., making DC Comics a subsidiary of Time Warner. In June, the first Tim Burton directed Batman movie was released, and DC began publishing its hardcover series of DC Archive Editions, collections of many of their early, key comics series, featuring rare and expensive stories unseen by many modern fans. Restoration for many of the Archive Editions was handled by Rick Keene with colour restoration by DC's long-time resident colourist, Bob LeRose. These collections attempted to retroactively credit many of the writers and artists who had worked without much recognition for DC during the early period of comics when individual credits were few and far between.

The comics industry experienced a brief boom in the early 1990s, thanks to a combination of speculative purchasing (mass purchase of the books as collectible items, with intent to resell at a higher value as the rising value of older issues, was thought to imply that all comics would rise dramatically in price) and several storylines which gained attention from the mainstream media. DC's extended storylines in which Superman was killed, Batman was crippled and superhero Green Lantern turned into the supervillain Parallax resulted in dramatically increased sales, but the increases were as temporary as the hero's replacements. Sales dropped off as the industry went into a major slump, while manufactured "collectables" numbering in the millions replaced quality with quantity until fans and speculators alike deserted the medium in droves.

DC's Piranha Press and other imprints (including the mature readers line Vertigo, and Helix, a short-lived science fiction imprint) were introduced to facilitate compartmentalized diversification and allow for specialized marketing of individual product lines. They increased the use of non-traditional contractual arrangements, including the dramatic rise of creator-owned projects, leading to a significant increase in critically lauded work (much of it for Vertigo) and the licensing of material from other companies. DC also increased publication of book-store friendly formats, including trade paperback collections of individual serial comics, as well as original graphic novels.

One of the other imprints was Impact Comics from 1991 to 1992 in which the Archie Comics superheroes were licensed and revamped.[68][69] The stories in the line were part of its own shared universe.[70]

DC entered into a publishing agreement with Milestone Media that gave DC a line of comics featuring a culturally and racially diverse range of superhero characters. Although the Milestone line ceased publication after a few years, it yielded the popular animated series Static Shock. DC established Paradox Press to publish material such as the large-format Big Book of... series of multi-artist interpretations on individual themes, and such crime fiction as the graphic novel Road to Perdition. In 1998, DC purchased WildStorm Comics, Jim Lee's imprint under the Image Comics banner, continuing it for many years as a wholly separate imprint – and fictional universe – with its own style and audience. As part of this purchase, DC also began to publish titles under the fledgling WildStorm sub-imprint America's Best Comics (ABC), a series of titles created by Alan Moore, including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tom Strong, and Promethea. Moore strongly contested this situation, and DC eventually stopped publishing ABC.

2000s

In March 2003 DC acquired publishing and merchandising rights to the long-running fantasy series Elfquest, previously self-published by creators Wendy and Richard Pini under their WaRP Graphics publication banner. This series then followed another non-DC title, Tower Comics' series T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, in collection into DC Archive Editions. In 2004 DC temporarily acquired the North American publishing rights to graphic novels from European publishers 2000 AD and Humanoids. It also rebranded its younger-audience titles with the mascot Johnny DC and established the CMX imprint to reprint translated manga. In 2006, CMX took over from Dark Horse Comics publication of the webcomic Megatokyo in print form. DC also took advantage of the demise of Kitchen Sink Press and acquired the rights to much of the work of Will Eisner, such as his The Spirit series and his graphic novels.

In 2004, DC began laying the groundwork for a full continuity-reshuffling sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths, promising substantial changes to the DC Universe (and side-stepping the 1994 Zero Hour event which similarly tried to ret-con the history of the DCU). In 2005, the critically lauded Batman Begins film was released; also, the company published several limited series establishing increasingly escalated conflicts among DC's heroes, with events climaxing in the Infinite Crisis limited series. Immediately after this event, DC's ongoing series jumped forward a full year in their in-story continuity, as DC launched a weekly series, 52, to gradually fill in the missing time. Concurrently, DC lost the copyright to "Superboy" (while retaining the trademark) when the heirs of Jerry Siegel used a provision of the 1976 revision to the copyright law to regain ownership.

In 2005, DC launched its "All-Star" line (evoking the title of the 1940s publication), designed to feature some of the company's best-known characters in stories that eschewed the long and convoluted continuity of the DC Universe. The line began with All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder and All-Star Superman, with All-Star Wonder Woman and All-Star Batgirl announced in 2006 but neither being released nor scheduled as of the end of 2009.[71]

DC licensed characters from the Archie Comics imprint Red Circle Comics by 2007.[72] They appeared in the Red Circle line, based in the DC Universe, with a series of one-shots followed by a miniseries that lead into two ongoing titles, each lasting 10 issues.[70][73]

2010s

In 2011, DC rebooted all of its running titles following the Flashpoint storyline. The reboot called The New 52 gave new origin stories and costume designs to many of DC's characters.

DC licensed pulp characters including Doc Savage and the Spirit which it then used, along with some DC heroes, as part of the First Wave comics line launched in 2010 and lasting through fall 2011.[74][75][76]

In May 2011, DC announced it would begin releasing digital versions of their comics on the same day as paper versions.[77]

On June 1, 2011, DC announced that it would end all ongoing series set in the DC Universe in August and relaunch its comic line with 52 issue #1s, starting with Justice League on August 31 (written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Jim Lee), with the rest to follow later on in September.[78][79]

On June 4, 2013, DC unveiled two new digital comic innovations to enhance interactivity: DC2 and DC2 Multiverse. DC2 layers dynamic artwork onto digital comic panels, adding a new level of dimension to digital storytelling, while DC2 Multiverse allows readers to determine a specific story outcome by selecting individual characters, storylines and plot developments while reading the comic, meaning one digital comic has multiple outcomes. DC2 will first appear in the upcoming digital-first title, Batman '66, based on the 1960s television series and DC2 Multiverse will first appear in Batman: Arkham Origins, a digital-first title based on the video game of the same name.[80]

In 2014, DC announced an eight-issue miniseries titled Convergence which began in April 2015.[81][82][83][84]

In 2016, DC announced a line-wide relaunch titled DC Rebirth.[85] The new line would launch with an 80-page one-shot titled DC Universe: Rebirth, written by Geoff Johns, with art from Gary Frank, Ethan Van Sciver, and more. After that, many new series would launch with a twice-monthly release schedule and new creative teams for nearly every title. The relaunch was meant to bring back the legacy and heart many felt had been missing from DC characters since the launch of the New 52. Rebirth brought huge success, both financially and critically.[86][87][88]

In January 2019 it was reported that 7 of the DC's 240 person workforce were laid off, including several vice presidents.[3]

2020s

On February 21, 2020, the Co-Publisher of DC Comics, Dan DiDio stepped down after ten years at that position. The company did not give a reason for the move, nor did it indicate whether it was his decision or the company's, though it was the latest event in a restructuring that began the previous month, as several top executives were laid off from the company.[89][90] However, Bleeding Cool reported that he was fired.[91]

In August 2020, roughly one third of DC's editorial ranks were laid off, including the editor-in-chief, senior story editor, executive editor, and several senior VPs.[92]

DC Entertainment

DC Entertainment

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Type Subsidiary

Industry Entertainment

Genre Superhero fiction

Founded September 2009

Headquarters Burbank, California, United States

Area served Worldwide

Key people

Pam Lifford

(President, Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences)

Jim Lee (CCO)

Amit Desai (Executive VP)

Products

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Services Licensing

Owner WarnerMedia (a subsidiary of AT&T)

Parent Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences

(Warner Bros.)

Divisions

DC Comics

MAD

DC Universe

Website www.dcentertainment.com

DC Entertainment, Inc. is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. that manages its comic book units and intellectual property (characters) in other units as they work with other Warner Bros units.

In September 2009, Warner Bros. announced that DC Comics would become a subsidiary of DC Entertainment, Inc., with Diane Nelson, President of Warner Premiere, becoming president of the newly formed holding company and DC Comics President and Publisher Paul Levitz moving to the position of Contributing Editor and Overall Consultant there.[93] Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been owned by the same company since 1969.

On February 18, 2010, DC Entertainment named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio as Co-Publishers of DC Comics, Geoff Johns as Chief Creative Officer, John Rood as EVP (Executive Vice President) of Sales, Marketing and Business Development, and Patrick Caldon as EVP of Finance and Administration.[94]

In October 2013, DC Entertainment announced that the DC Comics offices were going to move from New York City to Warner Bros. Burbank, California, headquarters in 2015. The other units, animation, movie, TV and portfolio planning, had preceded DC Comics by moving there in 2010.[95]

DC Entertainment announced its first franchise, the DC Super Hero Girls universe, in April 2015 with multi-platform content, toys and apparel to start appearing in 2016.[96]

Warner Bros. Pictures reorganized in May 2016 to have genre responsible film executives, thus DC Entertainment franchise films under Warner Bros. were placed under a newly created division, DC Films, created under Warner Bros. executive vice president Jon Berg and DC chief content officer Geoff Johns. This was done in the same vein as Marvel Studios in unifying DC-related filmmaking under a single vision and clarifying the greenlighting process. Johns also kept his existing role at DC Comics.[97] Johns was promoted to DC president & CCO with the addition of his DC Films while still reporting to DCE President Nelson.[98] In August 2016, Amit Desai was promoted from senior vice president, marketing & global franchise management to exec vice president, business and marketing strategy, direct-to-consumer and global franchise management.[99]

DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Digital Networks announced in April 2017 DC Universe digital service to be launched in 2018 with two original series.[100][101]

With frustration over DC Films not matching Marvel Studios' results and Berg wanting to step back to being a producer in January 2018, it was announced that Warner Bros. executive Walter Hamada was appointed president of DC film production.[102] After a leave of absence starting in March 2018, Diane Nelson resigned as president of DC Entertainment. The company's executive management were to report to WB Chief Digital Officer Thomas Gewecke until a new president is selected.[103] In June 2018, Johns was also moved out of his position as chief creative officer and DC Entertainment president for a writing and producing deal with the DC and WB companies. Jim Lee added DC Entertainment chief creative officer title to his DC co-publisher post.[104] In September 2018, DC became part of the newly-created Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences division overseen by President Pam Lifford.[105][106]

Logo

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1987 test logo

1977–2005 logo, known as the "DC Bullet"

2005–2012 logo

2012–2016 logo

DC's first logo appeared on the April 1940 issues of its titles. The letters "DC" stood for District of Columbia, the name of the United States capital. This was a display patriotism during a time of war. The small logo, with no background, read simply, "A DC Publication".[citation needed]

The November 1941 DC titles introduced an updated logo. This version was almost twice the size of the previous one and was the first version with a white background. The name "Superman" was added to "A DC Publication", effectively acknowledging both Superman and Batman. This logo was the first to occupy the top-left corner of the cover, where the logo has usually resided since. The company now referred to itself in its advertising as "Superman-DC".[citation needed]

In November 1949, the logo was modified to incorporate the company's formal name, National Comics Publications. This logo also served as the round body of Johnny DC, DC's mascot in the 1960s.[citation needed]

In October 1970, DC briefly retired the circular logo in favour of a simple "DC" in a rectangle with the name of the title, or the star of the book; the logo on many issues of Action Comics, for example, read "DC Superman". An image of the lead character either appeared above or below the rectangle. For books that did not have a single star, such as anthologies like House of Mystery or team series such as Justice League of America, the title and "DC" appeared in a stylized logo, such as a bat for "House of Mystery". This use of characters as logos helped to establish the likenesses as trademarks, and was similar to Marvel's contemporaneous use of characters as part of its cover branding.[citation needed]

DC's "100 Page Super-Spectacular" titles and later 100-page and "Giant" issues published from 1972 to 1974 featured a logo exclusive to these editions: the letters "DC" in a simple sans-serif typeface within a circle. A variant had the letters in a square.[citation needed]

The July 1972 DC titles featured a new circular logo. The letters "DC" were rendered in a block-like typeface that remained through later logo revisions until 2005. The title of the book usually appeared inside the circle, either above or below the letters.[citation needed]

In December 1973, this logo was modified with the addition of the words "The Line of DC Super-Stars" and the star motif that continued in later logos. This logo was placed in the top center of the cover from August 1975 to October 1976.[citation needed]

When Jenette Kahn became DC's publisher in late 1976, she commissioned graphic designer Milton Glaser to design a new logo. Popularly referred to as the "DC bullet", this logo premiered on the February 1977 titles. Although it varied in size and colour and was at times cropped by the edges of the cover, or briefly rotated 4 degrees, it remained essentially unchanged for nearly three decades. Despite logo changes since 2005, the old "DC bullet" continues to be used only on the DC Archive Editions series.[citation needed]

In July 1987, DC released variant editions of Justice League No. 3 and The Fury of Firestorm No. 61 with a new DC logo. It featured a picture of Superman in a circle surrounded by the words "SUPERMAN COMICS". The company released these variants to newsstands in certain markets as a marketing test.[107]

On May 8, 2005, a new logo (dubbed the "DC spin") was unveiled, debuting on DC titles in June 2005 with DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy No. 1 and the rest of the titles the following week. In addition to comics, it was designed for DC properties in other media, which was used for movies since Batman Begins, with Superman Returns showing the logo's normal variant, and the TV series Smallville, the animated series Justice League Unlimited and others, as well as for collectibles and other merchandise. The logo was designed by Josh Beatman of Brainchild Studios[108] and DC executive Richard Bruning.[109]

In March 2012, DC unveiled a new logo consisting of the letter "D" flipping back to reveal the letter "C" and "DC ENTERTAINMENT".[110] The Dark Knight Rises was the first film to use the new logo, while the TV series Arrow was the first series to feature the new logo.

DC Entertainment announced a new identity and logo for another iconic DC Comics universe brand on May 17, 2016. The new logo was first used on May 25, 2016, in conjunction with the release of DC Universe: Rebirth Special #1 by Geoff Johns.[111]

Imprints

Main article: List of DC Comics imprints

Active as of 2019

DC (1937–present)

Young Animal (2016–present)

WildStorm (1999–2010, 2017–present)

Earth-M (1993–1997, 2018–present)

Sandman Universe (2018–present)

DC Black Label (2018–present)[112]

DC Ink (2019–present)

DC Zoom (2019–present)

Wonder Comics (2019–present)

Hill House Comics (2019–present)

Mad (1953–present)

Defunct

All Star (2005–2008)

Amalgam Comics (1996–1997; jointly with Marvel Comics)

DC Focus (2004–2005; merged with main DC line)

Elseworlds (1989–2004)

First Wave (2010–2011; licensed from Condé Nast Publications and Will Eisner Library)

Helix (1996–1998; merged with Vertigo)

Impact Comics (1991–1993; licensed from Archie Comics)

Johnny DC (2004–2012)

Minx (2007–2008)

Paradox Press (1998–2003)

Piranha Press (1989–1993; renamed Paradox Press)

Tangent Comics (1997–1998)

Vertigo (1993–2019)[5]

WildStorm Productions (1999–2010)

America's Best Comics (1999–2005)

Cliffhanger (1999–2004; merged to form WildStorm Signature)

CMX Manga (2004–2010)

Homage Comics (1999–2004; merged to form WildStorm Signature)

WildStorm Signature (2004–2006; merged with main WildStorm line)

Zuda Comics (2007–2010)

DC Universe

Main article: DC Universe (streaming service)

DC Universe is a video on demand service operated by DC Entertainment. It was announced in April 2017,[113] with the title and service formally announced in May 2018. DC Universe is expected to offer more than video content through the inclusion of an immersive experience with fan interaction that encompasses comics in addition to television.[101][114][115][116] In August 2020, DC publisher Jim Lee announced that all video content from DC Universe would migrate to HBO Max,[117] with the majority of the staff of DC Universe having been laid off.[118]

Films

See also: List of films based on DC Comics publications

Year Film Directed by Written by Based on Production by Budget Gross

2005 Batman Begins Christopher Nolan Story by David S. Goyer

Screenplay by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Patalex III Productions / Syncopy $150 million $374.2 million

2006 Superman Returns Bryan Singer Story by Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris

Screenplay by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris Superman

by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Bad Hat Harry Productions / Peters Entertainment $204 million $391.1 million

2008 The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan Story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer

Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Syncopy $185 million $1.005 billion

2009 Watchmen Zack Snyder David Hayter and Alex Tse Watchmen

by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons Warner Bros. / Paramount Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions $130 million $185.3 million

2010 Jonah Hex Jimmy Hayward Story by Neveldine/Taylor and William Farmer

Screenplay by Neveldine/Taylor Jonah Hex

by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Weed Road Pictures $47 million $10.9 million

2011 Green Lantern Martin Campbell Story by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green and Marc Guggenheim

Screenplay by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg Green Lantern

by John Broome and Gil Kane Warner Bros. / De Line Pictures $200 million $219.9 million

2012 The Dark Knight Rises Christopher Nolan Story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer

Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Syncopy $230 million $1.085 billion

2013 Man of Steel Zack Snyder Story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer

Screenplay by David S. Goyer Superman

by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Warner Bros. / Legendary Pictures / Syncopy $225 million $668 million

2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Zack Snyder Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger

Superman

by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment / Cruel and Unusual Films $250 million $873.6 million

Suicide Squad David Ayer Suicide Squad

by John Ostrander Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment $175 million $746.8 million[119]

2017 The Lego Batman Movie Chris McKay Story by Seth Grahame-Smith

Screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers, Jared Stern & John Whittington Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger Warner Bros. / LEGO System A/S / Warner Animation Group / RatPac Entertainment / Lin Pictures / Lord Miller Productions / Vertigo Entertainment $80 million[120] $310.7 million[121]

Wonder Woman Patty Jenkins Story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg and Jason Fuchs

Screenplay by Allan Heinberg Wonder Woman

by William Moulton Marston Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment / Cruel and Unusual Films $150 million[122] $821.8 million[123]

Justice League Zack Snyder Story by Chris Terrio & Zack Snyder

Screenplay by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon Justice League

by Gardner Fox Warner Bros. / RatPac Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment / Cruel and Unusual Films $300 million $657.9 million[124]

2018 Teen Titans Go! To the Movies Aaron Horvath & Peter Rida Michail Screenplay by Aaron Horvath & Michael Jelenic Teen Titans

by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani

Teen Titans Go!

by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic Warner Bros. / Warner Bros. Animation[125] $10 million[126] $51.9 million[126]

Aquaman James Wan Story by James Wan and Geoff Johns

Screenplay by Will Beall Aquaman by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris Warner Bros. / DC Entertainment / Cruel & Unusual Films[127] $160 million[128] $1.148 billion[129]

2019 Shazam! David F. Sandberg Story by Henry Gayden and Darren Lemke

Screenplay by Henry Gayden Shazam! by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck New Line Cinema / DC Entertainment[127] $80–100 million[130][131] $365.9 million[132]

Joker Todd Phillips Todd Phillips and Scott Silver Joker by Bill Finger, Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson Warner Bros. Pictures / Sikelia Productions / Joint Effort / DC Entertainment[127] $55–70 million[133] $1.074 billion[134]

2020 Birds of Prey Cathy Yan Christina Hodson Birds of Prey by Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Chuck Dixon Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Films / LuckyChap Entertainment / Kroll & Co. Entertainment / Clubhouse Pictures $82–100 million[135] $179.5 million[136]

Upcoming films Status

2020

Wonder Woman 1984 Patty Jenkins Story by Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns

Screenplay by Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns and David Callaham Wonder Woman

by William Moulton Marston Warner Bros. Pictures / Cruel and Unusual Films / Mandy Films / DC Entertainment / Atlas Entertainment / Mad Ghost Productions[127] Finished

2021 The Suicide Squad James Gunn Suicide Squad

by John Ostrander Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Films / Atlas Entertainment / The Safran Company Post-production

The Batman Matt Reeves Matt Reeves & Mattson Tomlin Batman

by Bob Kane with Bill Finger Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Films Filming

Critical and public reception

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic CinemaScore

Batman Begins 84% (278 reviews)[137] 70 (41 reviews)[138] A

Superman Returns 75% (263 reviews)[139] 72 (40 reviews)[140] B+

The Dark Knight 94% (334 reviews)[141] 82 (39 reviews)[142] A

Watchmen 64% (305 reviews)[143] 56 (39 reviews)[144] B

Jonah Hex 12% (149 reviews)[145] 33 (32 reviews)[146] C+

Green Lantern 26% (239 reviews)[147] 39 (39 reviews)[148] B

The Dark Knight Rises 87% (358 reviews)[149] 78 (45 reviews)[150] A

Man of Steel 56% (329 reviews)[151] 55 (47 reviews)[152] A−

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 28% (411 reviews)[153] 44 (51 reviews)[154] B

Suicide Squad 27% (362 reviews)[155] 40 (53 reviews)[156] B+

The Lego Batman Movie 90% (301 reviews)[157] 75 (48 reviews)[158] A−

Wonder Woman 93% (433 reviews)[159] 76 (36 reviews)[160] A

Justice League 40% (377 reviews)[161] 45 (52 reviews)[162] B+

Teen Titans GO! To the Movies 91% (121 reviews)[163] 69 (25 reviews)[164] B+

Aquaman 66% (374 reviews)[165] 55 (49 critics)[166] A−

Shazam! 91% (378 reviews)[167] 71 (52 critics)[168] A

Joker 69% (524 reviews)[169] 59 (58 reviews)[170] B+

Birds of Prey 79% (342 reviews)[171] 60 (59 reviews)[172] B+

Average 67% 57 B+

Digital distribution

DC Comics are available in digital form through several sources.

Free services: In 2015, Hoopla Digital became the first library-based digital system to distribute DC Comics.[173]

Paid services: Google Play, ComiXology[174]

See also

flag United States portal

Comics portal

flag New York City portal

Companies portal

Batman Day (September 17)

DC Cosmic Cards

DC Collectibles

List of DC Comics characters

List of comics characters which originated in other media

List of current DC Comics publications

List of films based on DC Comics

List of television series based on DC Comics

List of video games based on DC Comics

Publication history of DC Comics crossover events

List of unproduced DC Comics projects

DC Films

Notes

 Apocryphal legend has it that in 1961, either Jack Liebowitz or Irwin Donenfeld of DC Comics (then known as National Periodical Publications) bragged about DC's success with the Justice League (which had debuted in The Brave and the Bold No. 28 [February 1960] before going on to its own title) to publisher Martin Goodman (whose holdings included the nascent Marvel Comics, which was being distributed by DC's Independent News at this time.) during a game of golf.

However, film producer and comics historian Michael Uslan partly debunked the story in a letter published in Alter Ego No. 43 (December 2004), pp. 43–44

Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. I heard this story more than a couple of times while sitting in the lunchroom at DC's 909 Third Avenue and 75 Rockefeller Plaza office as Sol Harrison and [production chief] Jack Adler were schmoozing with some of us ... who worked for DC during our college summers ... [T]he way I heard the story from Sol was that Goodman was playing with one of the heads of Independent News, not DC Comics (though DC owned Independent News) ... As the distributor of DC Comics, this man certainly knew all the sales figures and was in the best position to tell this tidbit to Goodman. ... Of course, Goodman would want to be playing golf with this fellow and be in his good graces ... Sol worked closely with Independent News' top management over the decades and would have gotten this story straight from the horse's mouth.

Goodman, a publishing trend-follower aware of the JLA's strong sales, confirmably directed his comics editor, Stan Lee, to create a comic-book series about a team of superheroes. According to Lee in Origins of Marvel Comics (Simon and Schuster/Fireside Books, 1974), p. 16: "Martin mentioned that he had noticed one of the titles published by National Comics seemed to be selling better than most. It was a book called The [sic] Justice League of America and it was composed of a team of superheroes. ... ' If the Justice League is selling ', spoke he, 'why don't we put out a comic book that features a team of superheroes?'"

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Comic book publishers in the United States

Active (major)

Archie ComicsBoom! StudiosDark Horse ComicsDC ComicsDynamite EntertainmentIDW PublishingImage ComicsMarvel ComicsOni PressTitan ComicsValiant ComicsViz Media

Active (minor)

Aardvark-VanaheimAC ComicsAction Lab ComicsAfterShock ComicsAhoy ComicsAiT/Planet LarAlias EnterprisesAlternative ComicsAnother Rainbow PublishingAntarctic PressArcade ComicsArcana StudioArchaia EntertainmentAspen MLTAvatar PressAWA StudiosAzteca ProductionsBeyond ComicsBlack Mask StudiosCaliber ComicsClass ComicsComiXology OriginalsConundrum PressCreative Impulse EntertainmentCross Infinite WorldDarby Pop PublishingDevil's Due PublishingDrawn and QuarterlyEureka ProductionsFantagraphics BooksFirst Second BooksHermes PressHumanoids PublishingIron Circus ComicsKodansha USALast GaspLegendary ComicsThe Library of American ComicsLion Forge ComicsMad Cave StudiosMilestone MediaMirage StudiosMoonstone BooksNBM PublishingNorthwest PressPanini ComicsPapercutzPlatinum StudiosRadical ComicsRadio ComixRip Off PressSemic Comics / Semic PressSeven Seas EntertainmentShadowlineSirius EntertainmentSkybound EntertainmentSlave Labor GraphicsSunday Press BooksTidalWave ProductionsTKO StudiosTokyopopTop Cow ProductionsUdon EntertainmentVerticalViper ComicsWaRP GraphicsYen PressZenescope Entertainment

Former

Academy ComicsAircel ComicsAll-American PublicationsAmalgam ComicsAmerican Comics GroupApple ComicsAtlas ComicsAtlas/Seaboard ComicsAwesome ComicsBlackthorne PublishingBongo ComicsBroadway ComicsCatalan CommunicationsCat-Head ComicsCentaur PublicationsChaos! ComicsCharlton ComicsContinüm ComicsHarry "A" CheslerComicoComicsOneContinuity ComicsCrestwood PublicationsCrossGenDabel Brothers ProductionsDefiant ComicsDell ComicsDel Rey MangaDisney ComicsDouble Take ComicsEastern Color PrintingEC ComicsEclipse ComicsEternity ComicsFantaCo EnterprisesFawcett ComicsFiction HouseFirst ComicsFox Feature SyndicateFuture ComicsGladstone PublishingGemstone PublishingGilbertonGold Key ComicsHarvey ComicsHighwater BooksHolyoke PublishingHyperwerksInnovation PublishingKitchen Sink PressMainline PublicationsMalibu ComicsMillennium PublicationsNational Comics PublicationsNedor PublishingNOW ComicsPacific ComicsPrint MintQuality ComicsRenegade PressRevolutionary ComicsSkywald PublicationsSparkplug ComicsSpectrum ComicsStandard ComicsTimely ComicsTopps ComicsTundra PublishingVertigo ComicsVortex ComicsWarren Publishing

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Warner Bros.

Pictures Group

Warner Bros. PicturesNew Line CinemaCastle Rock EntertainmentDC FilmsWarner Animation GroupFlagship Entertainment (49%)Spyglass Media Group (minor)Warner Max (feature film production; co-owned by WarnerMedia Direct)

Television Studios

Domestic

Alloy EntertainmentTelepictures TMZA Very Good Production

International

UK RicochetTwenty TwentyWall to Wall MediaNordics LTS Garðbær Studios

Interactive

Entertainment

Avalanche SoftwareMonolith ProductionsNetherRealm StudiosPortkey GamesRocksteady StudiosTT Games Traveller's TalesWB Games BostonWB Games MontréalWB Games San Francisco

Global Brands

and Franchises

DC Entertainment DC Comics WildStormDC Black LabelMadWarner Bros. Consumer Products Warner Bros. Studio Store

Themed

Entertainment

Warner Bros. Movie World IncidentsParque Warner MadridWarner Bros. World Abu DhabiWarner Bros. Studio Tours HollywoodLondonThe Wizarding World of Harry PotterHarry Potter: The ExhibitionFormer Jungle Habitat IncidentsMovie Park Germany

Kids, Young

Adults and Classics

Cartoon Network Adult SwimToonamiBoomerangTurner Classic MoviesProduction Cartoon Network StudiosWarner Bros. Animation Hanna-BarberaWilliams Street

Other units

Turner Entertainment Co.Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. (50%)De Lane Lea StudiosWarner Bros. Digital Networks DC UniverseWarner Bros. Theatre VenturesWarner Bros. MuseumWarner Bros. Studios, BurbankWarner Bros. Studios, LeavesdenSunset ProductionsWaterTower Music

Former/defunct

DramaFeverelevenelevenHOOQ (17.5%)Shed ProductionsNew Line Home Entertainment InfinifilmSnowblind StudiosSurreal SoftwareMidway GamesWarner Premiere Raw FeedWarner Bros. Family EntertainmentWarner Independent Pictures

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DC Comics

DC Entertainment

Publications

Comics (A–B)Comics (C–F)Comics (G–J)Comics (K–O)Comics (P–S)Comics (T–Z)Current comics

Universe

DC UniverseMultiverseCharactersMetahumansCrossoversTeams and organizationsCriminal organizationsGovernment agenciesCosmic entitiesAlien racesLocationsObjectsDC IndexWho's Who

Lines and imprints

General

List of DC Comics imprints (publications)

Current

Black Label The Sandman UniverseDC InkEarth OneMilestoneWonder ComicsYoung Animal

Defunct

All-StarAmalgam Marvel Comics jointElseworldsCMXFocusHanna-Barbera BeyondHelixImpactJohnnyMadMinxThe New Age of DC HeroesParadoxPiranhaTangentVertigoWildStorm America's Best ComicsCliffhangerHomageZuda

Reprints

DC Archive EditionsDC ChroniclesDC Comics Absolute EditionDC Comics Classics LibraryDC OmnibusShowcase PresentsList of DC Comics reprint collectionsList of DC imprint reprint collections

Predecessors

All-American PublicationsNational Comics Publications

Acquired companies

WildStorm ProductionsE. C. Publications

Acquired characters

Charlton ComicsFawcett ComicsQuality Comics

Editors-in-Chief /

Editorial directors

Whitney EllsworthIrwin DonenfeldCarmine InfantinoJenette KahnPaul LevitzBob Harras

Adaptations

FilmsNovelsTelevision seriesVideo gamesUnproduced

Related

DC Comics rating systemDC FanDomeDC ImplosionDetective v. BrunsNational v. FawcettWarner v. ABCDC Universe (streaming service)Warner Bros.

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DC Comics war titles

Titles

All-Out WarBlackhawksBlitzkriegG.I. CombatMen of WarOur Army at WarOur Fighting ForcesStar Spangled War StoriesThe War that Time ForgotWeird War Tales

Characters

BlackhawkBoy CommandosCreature CommandosEasy CompanyEnemy AceG.I. RobotGravediggerHaunted TankHop HarriganThe LosersMademoiselle MarieSgt. RockUnknown Soldier

Editors

Murray BoltinoffArchie GoodwinRobert KanigherJoe KubertJoe Orlando

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DC Comics crossover event publication history

1980s

"Crisis on Infinite Earths" (April 1985)"Legends" (November 1986)"Millennium" (January 1988)"Invasion!" (January 1989)"The Janus Directive" (May 1989)

1990s

"Armageddon 2001" (May 1991)"War of the Gods" (September 1991)"Eclipso: The Darkness Within" (July 1992)"The Death of Superman" (October 1992)"Knightfall" (April 1993)"Trinity" (August 1993)"Bloodlines" (1993)"The Children's Crusade" (December 1993)"Worlds Collide" (July 1994)"End of an Era" (August 1994)"Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!" (September 1994)"Underworld Unleashed" (November 1995)"Batman: Contagion" (March 1996)"DC vs. Marvel" (April 1996)"Batman: Legacy" (August 1996)"The Final Night" (November 1996)"Genesis" (October 1997)"Batman: Cataclysm" (March 1998)"DC One Million" (November 1998)"Batman: No Man's Land" (March 1999)"Day of Judgment" (November 1999)"JLApe: Gorilla Warfare!" (1999)

2000s

"Our Worlds at War" (August 2001)"Joker: Last Laugh" (December 2001)"Bruce Wayne: Fugitive" (March 2002)"JLA/Avengers" (September 2003)"Identity Crisis" (June 2004)"Infinite Crisis" (December 2005)"Amazons Attack!" (March 2007)"Sinestro Corps War" (August 2007)"Final Crisis" (July 2008)"Blackest Night" (June 2009)

2010s

"Brightest Day" (May 2010)"Reign of Doomsday" (January 2011)"Flashpoint" (May 2011)"The Culling" (November 2011)"Night of the Owls" (April 2012)"Death of the Family" (October 2012)"H'El on Earth" (October 2012)"Throne of Atlantis" (November 2012)"Batman: Zero Year" (June 2013)"Trinity War" (July 2013)"Forever Evil" (September 2013)"Forever Evil: Blight" (October 2013)"Convergence" (April 2015)"The Button" (April 2017)"Dark Nights: Metal" (June 2017)"Doomsday Clock" (November 2017)"Milk Wars" (March 2018)"Heroes in Crisis" (September 2018)"Year of the Villain" (May 2019)"Tales from the Dark Multiverse" (October 2019)

2020s

"Dark Nights: Death Metal" (June 2020)"Generations" (September 2020)

Launch lines

DC ImplosionThe New 52DC RebirthThe New Age of DC HeroesNew JusticeThe Sandman Universe

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Golden Age of Comic Books

Ace Comics

Captain CourageousDoctor NemesisThe FlagLash LightningThe RavenUnknown SoldierVulcan

All-American

Publications

The Atom Al PrattBlack Canary Dinah DrakeDoctor Mid-Nite Charles McNiderDoiby DicklesThe Flash Jay GarrickThe Gay GhostGreen Lantern Alan ScottHawkgirl Shiera Sanders HallHawkman Carter HallHop HarriganJohnny ThunderJumpaJustice Society of AmericaThe KingMister Terrific Terry SloaneNeptune PerkinsRed TornadoSargon the SorcererThe Terrific WhatzitThunderboltUltra-ManThe WhipWildcat Ted GrantWonder Woman Diana Prince

Centaur Comics

AirmanAmazing-ManThe ArrowThe ClockThe EyeFantom of the FairMagician from MarsThe Masked MarvelMinimidget

Charlton Comics

Atomic MouseMr. MusclesNature BoyYellowjacketZaza the Mystic

Dell Comics

Doctor HormoneFlash GordonThe OwlSupermind's SonZorro

Fawcett Comics

BulletgirlBulletmanCaptain MarvelCaptain Marvel Jr.Captain MidnightDan DareHoppy the Marvel BunnyIbis the InvincibleLieutenant MarvelsMarvel FamilyMary MarvelMaster ManMinute-ManMr. ScarletPhantom EaglePinky the Whiz KidScoop SmithSpy SmasherSquadron of JusticeUncle Marvel

Fox Comics

Black FuryBlue Beetle Dan GarretThe BouncerBronze ManDynamoThe FlameGreen MaskThe MothSamsonStardust the Super WizardU.S. JonesV-ManWonder Man

Harvey Comics

Black CatCaptain 3-DCaptain FreedomGreen HornetInvisible Scarlet O'NeilKatoShock GibsonSpirit of '76

Lev Gleason

Publications

Captain BattleCrimebusterDaredevilLittle Wise GuysSilver Streak

MLJ Comics

The Black HoodBob PhantomCaptain FlagThe CometThe FireflyThe FoxThe HangmanThe ShieldSuper DuckThe WebThe Wizard

National Allied

Publications

Ace the Bat-HoundAir WaveAquamanBatmanBatwomanBlack PirateBoy CommandosCaptain CometChris KL-99Congo BillCrimson Avenger Lee TravisDan the Dyna-MiteDark RangerDetective ChimpDoctor Fate Kent NelsonDoctor OccultGenius JonesGimmick GirlGreen ArrowGuardianHourman Rex TylerJohnny Quick Johnny ChambersKing FaradayThe KnightKryptoLiberty BelleManhunter Paul KirkMartian ManhunterMiss XMr. AmericaNewsboy LegionPhantom StrangerRex the Wonder DogRobin Dick GraysonRobotmanRose PsychicSandman Wesley DoddsSandy the Golden BoySeven Soldiers of VictoryShining Knight Sir JustinSlam BradleyThe Spectre Jim CorriganSpeedy Roy HarperSquireStar-Spangled Kid Sylvester PembertonStarman Ted KnightStripesyStuff the Chinatown KidSuperboy Kal-ElSupermanSuperwoman Lois LaneTarantulaTNTTommy TomorrowVigilante Greg SaundersWingWonder WomanZatara

Nedor Comics

American CrusaderAmerican EagleBlack TerrorCaptain FutureDoc StrangeFighting YankThe GhostGrim ReaperJudy of the JungleKara the Jungle PrincessLance Lewis, Space DetectiveLiberatorThe MagnetMiss MasquePrincess PanthaPyromanThe ScarabThe Woman in Red

Novelty Press

Blue BoltDick ColeThe TargetThe TargeteersThe Twister

Prize

Publications

Atomic-ManBlack OwlFighting AmericanGreen LamaYank & Doodle

Quality Comics

#711The Black CondorBlackhawkBlue TracerBozo the Iron ManCaptain TriumphDoll GirlDoll ManFirebrandThe Human BombInvisible HoodThe JesterKid EternityLady LuckMadame FatalMagnoManhunterMerlin the MagicianMidnightMiss AmericaMiss FearMouthpieceNeon the UnknownPhantom LadyPlastic ManQuicksilverThe RayRed BeeRed TorpedoThe SpiderSpider WidowUncle SamWildfireWonder BoyWoozy Winks

Timely Comics

All-Winners SquadAmerican AceThe AngelBlack MarvelBlack Widow Claire VoyantBlazing SkullBlonde PhantomBlue BladeBlue DiamondBreeze BartonBucky Bucky BarnesCaptain AmericaCaptain WonderThe ChallengerCitizen VThe DestroyerDynamic ManFather TimeThe FerretFiery MaskThe FinGolden GirlThe Human TorchJack FrostLaughing MaskMarvel BoyMercuryMiss AmericaMiss FuryMister ENamorNamoraThe PatriotPhantom ReporterRed RavenRockmanSilver ScorpionSun GirlSuper RabbitThin ManThundererTim MulrooneyToroVenusThe VisionThe Whizzer Robert FrankThe WitnessYoung Allies

Misc.

American Comics Group SuperkattAnglo-American Publishing Commander SteelAtlas Publications Captain AtomBell Features The BrainJohnny CanuckNelvana of the Northern LightsCardal Publishing StreamlineColumbia Comics The FaceSkymanDavid McKay Publications Mandrake the MagicianThe PhantomDC Thomson The Amazing Mr XJack FlashDynamic Publications Dynamic ManYankee GirlEastern Color Printing Buck RogersHydromanPhantom MagicianEC Comics Moon GirlSuperdupermanElliot Publishing Company Kismet, Man of FateFiction House FantomahHillman Periodicals AirboyThe HeapHolyoke Publishing Cat-ManKittenMiss VictoryL. Miller & Son, Ltd. Kid MarvelmanMarvelmanYoung MarvelmanMagazine Enterprises FunnymanMaple Leaf Publishing Brok WindsorIron ManRural Home Publications Green TurtleStreet & Smith The AvengerDoc SavageThe ShadowSupersnipe

A

A-Bomb (HAS)

A.I.M.

Aaron Stack

Abomination (Emil Blonsky)

Abomination (Ultimate)

Absorbing Man

Abyss

Abyss (Age of Apocalypse)

Adam Destine

Adam Warlock

Aegis (Trey Rollins)

Agent Brand

Agent X (Nijo)

Agent Zero

Agents of Atlas

Aginar

Air-Walker (Gabriel Lan)

Ajak

Ajaxis

Akemi

Alain

Albert Cleary

Albion

Alex Power

Alex Wilder

Alexa Mendez

Alexander Pierce

Alice

Alicia Masters

Alpha Flight

Alpha Flight (Ultimate)

Alvin Maker

Amadeus Cho

Amanda Sefton

Amazoness

American Eagle (Jason Strongbow)

Amiko

Amora

Amphibian (Earth-712)

Amun

Ancient One

Ancient One (Ultimate)

Angel (Thomas Halloway)

Angel (Ultimate)

Angel (Warren Worthington III)

Angela (Aldrif Odinsdottir)

Anita Blake

Anne Marie Hoag

Annihilus

Anole

Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady)

Ant-Man (Scott Lang)

Anthem

Apocalypse

Apocalypse (Ultimate)

Aqueduct

Arachne

Araña

Arcade

Arcana

Archangel

Arclight

Ares

Argent

Armadillo

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

Armory

Arnim Zola

Arsenic

Artiee

Asgardian

Askew-Tronics

Asylum

Atlas (Team)

Aurora

Avalanche

Avengers

Avengers (Ultimate)

Azazel (Mutant)

B

Banshee

Banshee (Theresa Rourke)

Baron Strucker

Baron Zemo (Heinrich Zemo)

Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo)

Baroness S'Bak

Barracuda

Bart Rozum

Bastion

Batroc the Leaper

Battering Ram

Beak

Beast

Beast (Earth-311)

Beast (Ultimate)

Becatron

Bedlam

Beef

Beetle (Abner Jenkins)

Ben Grimm

Ben Parker

Ben Reilly

Ben Urich

Bengal

Beta-Ray Bill

Betty Brant

Betty Ross

Beyonder

Bi-Beast

Big Bertha

Big Wheel

Bill Hollister

Bishop

Bishop (Ultimate)

Black Bird

Black Bolt

Black Bolt (Marvel War of Heroes)

Black Cat

Black Cat (Ultimate)

Black Crow

Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia)

Black Panther

Black Panther (Ultimate)

Black Queen

Black Tarantula

Black Tom

Black Widow

Black Widow (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Black Widow (Ultimate)

Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff (MAA)

Blackheart

Blacklash

Blackout

Blade

Blastaar

Blazing Skull

Blindfold

Blink

Blizzard

Blob

Blob (Ultimate)

Blockbuster

Blok

Bloke

Blonde Phantom

Bloodaxe

Bloodscream

Bloodstorm

Bloodstrike

Blue Blade

Blue Marvel

Blue Shield

Blur

Bob, Agent of Hydra

Boom Boom

Boomer

Boomerang

Box

Bride of Nine Spiders (Immortal Weapons)

Bromley

Brood

Brother Voodoo

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Brotherhood of Mutants (Ultimate)

Bruce Banner

Brute

Bucky

Bug

Bulldozer

Bullseye

Bushwacker

Butterfly

C

Cable

Cable (Deadpool)

Cable (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Cable (Ultimate)

Cable (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Calamity

Caliban

Callisto

Callisto (Age of Apocalypse)

Calypso

Cammi

Cannonball

Cap'n Oz

Captain America

Captain America (House of M)

Captain America (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Captain America (Marvel War of Heroes)

Captain America (Sam Wilson)

Captain America (Ultimate)

Captain America/Steve Rogers (MAA)

Captain Britain

Captain Britain (Ultimate)

Captain Cross

Captain Flint

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell)

Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)

Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau)

Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell)

Captain Midlands

Captain Stacy

Captain Universe

Cardiac

Caretaker

Cargill

Carlie Cooper

Carmella Unuscione

Carnage

Carnage (Ultimate)

Carol Danvers

Carol Hines

Cassandra Nova

Catseye

Cecilia Reyes

Celestials

Centennial

Centurions

Cerebro

Cerise

Ch'od

Chamber

Chameleon

Champions

Changeling

Charles Xavier

Charlie Campion

Chase Stein

Chat

Chimera

Chores MacGillicudy

Christian Walker

Chronomancer

ClanDestine

Clea

Clea (Ultimate)

Clint Barton

Cloak

Cloud 9

Cobalt Man

Colleen Wing

Colonel America

Colossus

Colossus (Ultimate)

Confederates of the Curious

Constrictor

Contessa (Vera Vidal)

Controller

Cornelius

Corsair

Cosmo (dog)

Cottonmouth

Count Nefaria

Countess

Crimson Crusader

Crimson Dynamo

Crimson Dynamo (Iron Man 3 - The Official Game)

Crimson King

Crossbones

Crule

Crusher Hogan

Crusher Hogan (Ultimate)

Crystal

Cuckoo

Curt Conners

Cuthbert

Cyber

Cyclops

Cyclops (Ultimate)

Cyclops (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Cypher

D

D'Ken Neramani

Dagger

Daily Bugle

Daimon Hellstrom

Daken

Dakota North

Damage Control

Dani Moonstar

Danny Rand

Daredevil

Daredevil (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Daredevil (Marvel Heroes)

Daredevil (Ultimate)

Dargo Ktor

Dark Avengers

Dark Beast

Dark Phoenix

Dark X-Men

Darkhawk

Darkstar

Darwin

Dazzler

Dazzler (Ultimate)

Deacon Frost

Dead Girl

Deadpool

Deadpool (Deadpool)

Deadpool (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Deadpool (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Death

Deathbird

Deathcry

Deathlok

Deathstrike (Ultimate)

Debra Whitman

Debrii

Deena Pilgrim

Defenders

Demogoblin

Destiny

Detective Soap

Deviants

Devil Dinosaur (Devil Dinosaur)

Devil Dinosaur (HAS)

Devos

Dexter Bennett

Diablo

Diamondback (Rachel Leighton)

Dinah Soar

Dirk Anger

Doc Samson

Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom (Ultimate)

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Octopus

Doctor Octopus (Ultimate)

Doctor Spectrum

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange (Ultimate)

Dog Brother #1

Domino

Donald Blake

Doomsday Man

Doop

Doorman

Dorian Gray

Dormammu

Dormammu (Ultimate)

Dr. Strange (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Dracula

Dragon Lord

Dragon Man

Drax

Dreadnoughts

Dreaming Celestial

Druig

Dum Dum Dugan

Dust

E

Earthquake

Echo

Eddie Brock

Eddie Lau

Edward "Ted" Forrester

Edwin Jarvis

Ego

Electro

Electro (Ultimate)

Elektra

Elektra (Ultimate)

Elements of Doom

Elite

Elixir

Elloe Kaifi

Elsa Bloodstone

Emma Frost

Empath

Emplate

Enchantress (Amora)

Enchantress (Sylvie Lushton)

Ender Wiggin

Energizer

Epoch

Erik the Red

Eternals

Eternity

Excalibur

Exiles

Exodus

Expediter

Ezekiel

Ezekiel Stane

F

Fabian Cortez

Falcon

Falcon/Sam Wilson (MAA)

Fallen One

Famine

Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four (Ultimate)

Fantastick Four

Fantomex

Fat Cobra

Felicia Hardy

Fenris

Feral

Fin Fang Foom

Firebird

Firebrand

Firedrake

Firelord

Firestar

Firestar (Ultimate)

Fixer (Paul Norbert Ebersol)

Flatman

Flying Dutchman

Foggy Nelson

Force Works

Forearm

Forge

Forge (Ultimate)

Forgotten One

Frank Castle

Frankenstein's Monster

Franklin Richards

Franklin Storm

Freak

Frightful Four

Frog Thor

Frog-Man

G

Gabe Jones

Galactus

Galia

Gambit

Gamma Corps

Gamora

Gamora (Marvel War of Heroes)

Gargoyle

Gargoyle (Yuri Topolov)

Garia

Garrison Kane

Gateway

Gauntlet (Joseph Green)

Geiger

Gene Sailors

Generation X

Genesis

Genis-Vell

George Stacy (Ultimate)

Gertrude Yorkes

Ghost Rider (Daniel Ketch)

Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)

Ghost Rider (Marvel War of Heroes)

Giant Girl

Giant Man

Giant-dok

Giant-Man (Ultimate)

Gideon

Git Hoskins

Gladiator (Kallark)

Gladiator (Melvin Potter)

Glenn Talbot

Glorian

Goblin Queen

Golden Guardian

Goliath (Bill Foster)

Gorgon

Gorilla Man

Grandmaster

Gravity

Great Lakes Avengers

Green Goblin (Barry Norman Osborn)

Green Goblin (Harry Osborn)

Green Goblin (Ultimate)

Gressill

Grey Gargoyle

Greymalkin

Grim Reaper

Groot

Guardian

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardsmen

Gunslinger

GW Bridge

Gwen Stacy

Gwen Stacy (Ultimate)

H

H.A.M.M.E.R.

H.E.R.B.I.E.

Hairball

Half-Life (Tony Masterson)

Hammerhead

Hammerhead (Ultimate)

Hank Pym

Hannibal King

Happy Hogan

Hardball

Harley Davidson Cooper

Harpoon

Harrier

Harry Heck

Harry Osborn

Harry Osborn (Ultimate)

Hate-Monger (Adolf Hitler)

Havok

Hawkeye

Hawkeye (Kate Bishop)

Hawkeye (Marvel Heroes)

Hawkeye (Ultimate)

Hawkeye/Clint Barton (MAA)

Hedge Knight

Hellcat (Patsy Walker)

Hellfire Club

Hellfire Club (Ultimate)

Hellion

Hellions (Squad)

Hemingway

Henry Peter Gyrich

Hepzibah

Hercules

Heroes For Hire

Hex

High Evolutionary

Hindsight Lad

Hiroim

Hitman

Hitomi Sakuma

Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale)

Hobgoblin (Robin Borne)

Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley)

Holocaust (Age of Apocalypse)

Holy

Hope Summers

Howard Saint

Howard The Duck

Hulk

Hulk (HAS)

Hulk (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Hulk (Marvel Zombies)

Hulk (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Hulk (Ultimate)

Hulk-dok

Hulk/Bruce Banner (MAA)

Hulkling

Human Cannonball

Human Fly (Richard Deacon)

Human Robot

Human Torch

Human Torch (Jim Hammond)

Human Torch (Ultimate)

Humbug

Husk

Hussar

Hydra

Hydro-Man

Hyperion (Earth-712)

Hypno-Hustler

I

Iceman

Iceman (Ultimate)

Iceman (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Ikaris

Illuminati

Ilyana Rasputin

Imp

Imperfects

Imperial Guard

Impossible Man

In-Betweener

Inertia

Infant Terrible

Inhumans

Ink

Invaders

Invisible Woman

Invisible Woman (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Invisible Woman (Ultimate)

Iron Cross Army

Iron Fist (Bei Bang-Wen)

Iron Fist (Danny Rand)

Iron Fist (Orson Randall)

Iron Fist (Quan Yaozu)

Iron Fist (USM)

Iron Fist (Wu Ao-Shi)

Iron Lad

Iron Man

Iron Man (Iron Man 3 - The Official Game)

Iron Man (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Iron Man (Marvel Heroes)

Iron Man (Marvel War of Heroes)

Iron Man (Ultimate)

Iron Man/Tony Stark (MAA)

Iron Monger

Iron Patriot

Iron Patriot (James Rhodes)

Ironclad

J

J. Jonah Jameson

Jack Flag

Jack Murdock

Jack O' Lantern

Jack Power

Jackal

Jackpot

James Buchanan Barnes

James Howlett

Jamie Braddock

Jane Foster

Janus, the Nega-Man

Jasper Sitwell

Jazinda

Jean Grey

Jean Grey

Jean Grey (Ultimate)

Jennifer Smith

Jeryn Hogarth

Jessica Drew

Jessica Jones

Jetstream

Jigsaw

Jimmy Woo

Joan the Mouse

Jocasta

John Farson

John Jameson

John Porter

John Wraith

Johnny Blaze

Johnny Storm

Joseph

Joshua Kane

Josiah X

Joystick

Jubilee

Jubilee (Age of Apocalypse)

Juggernaut

Jule Carpenter

Julian Keller

Junta

Justice

Justin Hammer

K

Ka-Zar

Kabuki

Kang

Karen O'Malley

Karen Page

Karma

Karnak

Karolina Dean

Kat Farrell

Kate Bishop

Katie Power

Ken Ellis

Khan

Kid Colt

Killer Shrike

Killmonger

Killraven

King Bedlam

King Cobra

Kingpin

Kinsey Walden

Kitty Pryde

Kitty Pryde (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Klaw

Komodo (Melati Kusuma)

Korath

Korg

Korvac

Kraven the Hunter

Kree

Krista Starr

Kronos

Kulan Gath

Kylun

L

La Nuit

Lady Bullseye

Lady Deathstrike

Lady Mastermind

Lady Ursula

Lady Vermin

Lake

Landau

Lava-Man

Layla Miller

Leader

Leech

Legion

Lei Kung, The Thunderer

Lenny Balinger

Leo (Zodiac)

Leopardon

Leper Queen

Lester

Lethal Legion

Lieutenant Marcus Stone

Lifeguard

Lightning Lords of Nepal

Lightspeed

Lila Cheney

Lilandra

Lilith

Lily Hollister

Lionheart

Living Lightning

Living Mummy

Living Tribunal

Liz Osborn

Lizard

Lizard (Ultimate)

Loa

Lockheed

Lockjaw

Logan

Loki

Loki (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Loners

Longshot

Longshot (Ultimate)

Lord Hawal

Lord Tyger

Lords of Avalon

Lorna Dane

Luckman

Lucky Pierre

Lucy in the Sky

Luke Cage

Luminals

Lyja

M

M (Monet St. Croix)

M.O.D.A.M.

M.O.D.O.G.

M.O.D.O.K.

M.O.D.O.K. (Iron Man 3 - The Official Game)

Ma Gnuci

Mac Gargan

Mach IV

Machine Man

Mad Thinker

Madame Hydra

Madame Masque

Madame Web (Julia Carpenter)

Maddog

Madelyne Pryor

Madripoor

Madrox

Maelstrom

Maestro

Magdalene

Maggott

Magik (Amanda Sefton)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Maginty

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Magneto

Magneto (Age of Apocalypse)

Magneto (House of M)

Magneto (Ultimate)

Magneto (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Magus (Adam Warlock)

Magus (Technarch)

Major Mapleleaf

Makkari

Malcolm Colcord

Malice (Earth-161)

Man-Thing

Man-Wolf

Mandarin

Mandrill

Mandroid

Manta

Mantis

Marauders

Marcus Van Sciver

Maria Hill

Mariko Yashida

Marrow

Marten Broadcloak

Martin Li

Marvel Apes

Marvel Boy

Marvel Zombies

Marvex

Mary Jane Watson

Mary Jane Watson (House of M)

Mary Jane Watson (Ultimate)

Masked Marvel (Unrevealed)

Masque

Master Chief

Master Mold

Mastermind

Masters of Evil

Mathemanic

Matsu'o Tsurayaba

Matthew Murdock

Mattie Franklin

Mauler

Maverick (Chris Bradley)

Maverick (Christoph Nord)

Maximus

May Parker

Medusa

Meggan

Meltdown

Menace

Mentallo

Mentor

Mephisto

Mephistopheles

Mercury

Mesmero

Metal Master

Meteorite

MI: 13

Micro/Macro

Microbe

Microchip

Micromax

Midnight (Earth-811)

Miek

Mikhail Rasputin

Millenium Guard

Millie the Model

Mimic

Mindworm

Miracleman

Miss America

Mister Fear

Mister Sinister

Mister Sinister (Deadpool)

Mister Sinister (House of M)

Mister Sinister (Ultimate)

Misty Knight

Mockingbird

Moira MacTaggert

Moira MacTaggert (Ultimate)

Mojo

Mole Man

Molecule Man

Molly Hayes

Molly Von Richtofen

Molten Man

Mongoose

Mongu (Unrevealed)

Monster Badoon

Moon Girl (Lunella Layfayette)

Moon Knight

Moon Knight (House of M)

Moon Knight (Ultimate)

Moondragon

Moonstone

Morbius

Mordo

Morg

Morgan Stark

Morlocks

Morlun

Morph

Mother Askani

Mr. Bumpo

Mr. Fantastic

Mr. Fantastic (Ultimate)

Mr. Fish

Mr. Fixit

Mr. Hyde

Mr. Immortal

Mr. Meugniot

Mr. Negative

Mr. Payback

Mr. X

Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan)

MS2

Mulholland Black

Multiple Man

MVP

Mysterio

Mysterio (Daniel Berkhart)

Mysterio (Francis Klum)

Mystique

Mystique (Age of Apocalypse)

Mystique (House of M)

Mystique (Ultimate)

N

Nakia (Nakia)

Namor

Namora

Namorita

Naoko

Natasha Romanoff

Nebula

Nehzno

Nekra

Nemesis

Network

New Goblin

New Mutants

New Warriors

New X-Men

Newton Destine

Next Avengers

Nextwave

Nick Fury

Nick Fury (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Nick Fury (Ultimate)

Nico Minoru

Nicolaos

Night Nurse (Earth-9997)

Night Thrasher

Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)

Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler (Ultimate)

Nighthawk

Nightmare

Nightshade

Nine-Fold Daughters of Xao

Nitro

Nocturne

Nomad

Nomad (Rikki Barnes)

Nomad (Steve Rogers)

Norman Osborn

Norrin Radd

Northstar

Nova

Nova (Frankie Raye)

Nova (Sam Alexander)

Nova (USM)

Nuke

O

Obadiah Stane

Odin

Ogun

Okoye

Old Lace

Omega Flight

Omega Red

Omega Sentinel

Omega the Unknown

Onslaught

Onslaught (Ultimate)

Oracle

Ord

Orphan

Orphan-Maker

Otto Octavius

Outlaw Kid

Overlord

Owl

Ozymandias

P

Paibok

Paladin

Pandemic

Paper Doll

Patch

Patriot

Payback

Penance (Robert Baldwin)

Pepper Potts

Pestilence

Pet Avengers

Pete Wisdom

Peter Parker

Peter Quill

Phalanx

Phantom Reporter

Phil Coulson (Phil Coulson)

Phil Sheldon

Photon

Phyla-Vell

Piledriver

Pip

Pixie

Plazm

Polaris

Post

Power Man (USM)

Power Pack

Praxagora

Preak

Pretty Boy

Pride

Prima

Prince of Orphans

Princess Powerful

Prism

Prodigy

Proemial Gods

Professor Monster

Professor X

Professor X (Ultimate)

Proteus

Proteus (House of M)

Proteus (Ultimate)

Proudstar

Prowler

Prowler (Rick Lawson)

Psycho-Man

Psylocke

PsyNapse

Puck

Puck (Zuzha Yu)

Puff Adder

pug

Puma

Punisher

Punisher (2099)

Punisher (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Puppet Master

Purifiers

Purple Man

Pyro

Q

Quake (Daisy Johnson)

Quasar (Phyla-Vell)

Quasar (Wendell Vaughn)

Quasimodo

Queen Noir

Quentin Quire

Quicksilver

Quicksilver (Age of Apocalypse)

Quicksilver (Ultimate)

R

Rachel Grey

Radioactive Man

Rafael Vega

Rage

Raider

Randall

Randall Flagg

Random

Rattler

Ravenous

Rawhide Kid

Raza

Reaper

Reavers

Reavers (Ultimate)

Red 9

Red Ghost

Red Ghost (Ultimate)

Red Hulk

Red Hulk (HAS)

Red She-Hulk

Red Shift

Red Skull

Red Skull (Albert Malik)

Red Wolf

Redwing

Reptil

Retro Girl

Revanche

Rhino

Rhodey

Richard Fisk

Rick Jones

Rick Jones (Ultimate)

Ricochet

Rictor

Riptide

Risque

Robbie Robertson

Robert Baldwin

Robin Chapel

Rocket Raccoon

Rocket Raccoon (Marvel Heroes)

Rocket Racer

Rockslide

Rogue

Rogue (Age of Apocalypse)

Rogue (Deadpool)

Rogue (Ultimate)

Rogue (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Roland Deschain

Romulus

Ronan

Roughhouse

Roulette

Roxanne Simpson

Rumiko Fujikawa

Runaways

Russian

S

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Sabra

Sabretooth

Sabretooth (Age of Apocalypse)

Sabretooth (House of M)

Sabretooth (Ultimate)

Sage

Salem's Seven (Ultimate)

Sally Floyd

Salo

Sandman

Santa Claus

Saracen (Muzzafar Lambert)

Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski)

Satana

Sauron

Scalphunter

Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton)

Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly)

Scarlet Spider (Kaine)

Scarlet Witch

Scarlet Witch (Age of Apocalypse)

Scarlet Witch (Marvel Heroes)

Scarlet Witch (Ultimate)

Scorpion (Carmilla Black)

Scorpion (Ultimate)

Scourge

Scrambler

Scream (Donna Diego)

Screwball

Sebastian Shaw

Secret Warriors

Selene

Senator Kelly

Sentinel

Sentinels

Sentry (Robert Reynolds)

Ser Duncan

Serpent Society

Sersi

Shadow King

Shadow King (Age of Apocalypse)

Shadowcat

Shadowcat (Age of Apocalypse)

Shadowcat (Ultimate)

Shadu the Shady

Shalla-bal

Shaman

Shane Yamada-Jones

Shang-Chi

Shang-Chi (Ultimate)

Shanna the She-Devil

Shape

Shard

Sharon Carter

Sharon Ventura

Shatterstar

She-Hulk (HAS)

She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters)

She-Hulk (Lyra)

She-Hulk (Marvel War of Heroes)

She-Hulk (Ultimate)

Shen

Sheva Callister

Shi'Ar

Shinko Yamashiro

Shinobi Shaw

Shiva

Shiver Man

Shocker (Herman Schultz)

Shockwave

Shooting Star

Shotgun

Shriek

Sif

Silhouette

Silk Fever

Silver Centurion

Silver Fox

Silver Sable

Silver Samurai

Silver Samurai (Age of Apocalypse)

Silver Surfer

Silverclaw

Silvermane

Sin

Sinister Six

Sir Ram

Siren (Earth-93060)

Sister Grimm

Skaar

Skaar (HAS)

Skin

Skreet

Skrulls

Skrulls (Ultimate)

Skullbuster (Cylla Markham)

Slapstick

Slayback

Sleeper

Sleepwalker

Slipstream

Slyde

Smasher (Vril Rokk)

Smiling Tiger

Snowbird

Solo (James Bourne)

Songbird

Sons of the Tiger

Spacker Dave

Spectrum

Speed

Speed Demon

Speedball (Robert Baldwin)

Spencer Smythe

Sphinx (Anath-Na Mut)

Spider-dok

Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon)

Spider-Girl (May Parker)

Spider-Gwen (Spider-Gwen)

Spider-Ham (Larval Earth)

Spider-Man

Spider-Man (1602)

Spider-Man (2099)

Spider-Man (Ai Apaec)

Spider-Man (Ben Reilly)

Spider-Man (House of M)

Spider-Man (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Spider-Man (Marvel Zombies)

Spider-Man (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Spider-Man (Miles Morales)

Spider-Man (Noir)

Spider-Man (Takuya Yamashiro)

Spider-Man (Ultimate)

Spider-Woman (Charlotte Witter)

Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)

Spider-Woman (Mattie Franklin)

Spiral (Rita Wayword)

Spirit

Spitfire

Spot

Sprite

Spyke

Squadron Sinister

Squadron Supreme (Earth-712)

Squirrel Girl

Stacy X

Stacy X (Ultimate)

Star Brand

Star-Lord (Peter Quill)

Starbolt

Stardust

Starfox

Starhawk (Stakar Ogord)

Starjammers

Stark Industries

Stature

Steel Serpent (Davos)

Stellaris

Stepford Cuckoos

Stephanie de la Spiroza

Stephen Strange

Steve Rogers

Stick

Stilt-Man (Wibur Day)

Stingray (Walter Newell)

Stone Men

Storm

Storm (Age of Apocalypse)

Storm (Marvel Heroes)

Storm (Ultimate)

Stranger

Strong Guy

Stryfe

Stryfe (Ultimate)

Sub-Mariner

Sue Storm

Sugar Man

Sumo

Sunfire

Sunfire (Age of Apocalypse)

Sunset Bain

Sunspot

Super Hero Squad

Super-Adaptoid

Super-Skrull

Supernaut

Supreme Intelligence

Surge

Susan Delgado

Swarm

Sway

Switch

Swordsman

Swordsman (Jaques Duquesne)

Sym

Synch

T

T'Challa

Tag

Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen)

Talkback (Chase Stein)

Talon (Fraternity of Raptors)

Talos

Tana Nile

Tarantula (Luis Alvarez)

Tarot

Taskmaster

Tattoo

Ted Forrester

Tempest

Tenebrous

Terrax

Terror

Texas Twister

Thaddeus Ross

Thanos

Thanos (Ultimate)

The 198

The Anarchist

The Call

The Captain

The Enforcers

The Executioner

The Fallen

The Fury

The Hand

The Hood

The Howling Commandos

The Hunter

The Initiative

The Leader (HAS)

The Liberteens

The Liberty Legion

The Order

The Phantom

The Professor

The Renegades

The Santerians

The Shiver Man

The Spike

The Stranger

The Twelve

The Watchers

Thena

Thing

Thing (Marvel Heroes)

Thing (Ultimate)

Thor

Thor (Goddess of Thunder)

Thor (MAA)

Thor (Marvel Heroes)

Thor (Marvel War of Heroes)

Thor (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

Thor (Ultimate)

Thor Girl

Thunderball

Thunderbird (John Proudstar)

Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)

Thunderbolt (Bill Carver)

Thunderbolt Ross

Thunderbolts

Thundra

Tiger Shark

Tiger's Beautiful Daughter

Tigra (Greer Nelson)

Timeslip

Tinkerer

Tippy Toe

Titania

Titanium Man (Topolov)

Toad

Toad Men

Tomas

Tombstone

Tomorrow Man

Tony Stark

Toro (Thomas Raymond)

Toxin

Toxin (Eddie Brock)

Trauma

Triathlon

Trish Tilby

Triton

True Believers

Turbo

Tusk

Two-Gun Kid

Tyger Tiger

Typhoid Mary

Tyrannus

U

U-Foes

U-Go Girl

U.S. Agent

Uatu The Watcher

Ulik

Ultimate Spider-Man (USM)

Ultimates

Ultimatum

Ultimo

Ultra-Adaptoid

Ultragirl (Earth-93060)

Ultron

Umar

Unicorn

Union Jack (Brian Falsworth)

Union Jack (Joseph Chapman)

Union Jack (Montgomery Falsworth)

Unus

Unus (Age of Apocalypse)

Unus (House of M)

Unus (Ultimate)

V

Valeria Richards

Valkyrie (Samantha Parrington)

Valkyrie (Ultimate)

Vampiro

Vance Astro

Vanisher (Age of Apocalypse)

Vanisher (Telford Porter)

Vanisher (Ultimate)

Vapor

Vargas

Vector

Veda

Vengeance (Michael Badilino)

Venom (Flash Thompson)

Venom (Mac Gargan)

Venom (Ultimate)

Venus (Siren)

Venus Dee Milo

Vermin (Edward Whelan)

Vertigo (Savage Land Mutate)

Victor Mancha

Victor Von Doom

Vin Gonzales

Vindicator

Violations

Viper

Virginia Dare

Vision

Vivisector

Vulcan (Gabriel Summers)

Vulture (Adrian Toomes)

Vulture (Blackie Drago)

W

Wallflower

Wallop

Wallow

War (Abraham Kieros)

War Machine (Iron Man 3 - The Official Game)

War Machine (Marvel: Avengers Alliance)

War Machine (Parnell Jacobs)

War Machine (Ultimate)

Warbird

Warbound

Warhawk (Mitchell Tanner)

Warlock (Janie Chin)

Warlock (Technarchy)

Warpath

Warren Worthington III

Warstar

Wasp

Wasp (Ultimate)

Weapon Omega

Weapon X

Wendell Rand

Wendell Vaughn

Wendigo

Werewolf By Night

Whiplash (Mark Scarlotti)

Whirlwind

Whistler

White Queen (Adrienne Frost)

White Tiger (Angela Del Toro)

White Tiger (USM)

Whizzer (Stanley Stewart)

Wiccan

Wild Child

Wild Child (Age of Apocalypse)

Wild Pack

Wildside

William Stryker

Wilson Fisk

Wind Dancer

Winter Soldier

Wither

Wolf Cub

Wolfpack

Wolfsbane

Wolfsbane (Age of Apocalypse)

Wolver-dok

Wolverine

Wolverine (LEGO Marvel Super Heroes)

Wolverine (Marvel War of Heroes)

Wolverine (Ultimate)

Wolverine (X-Men: Battle of the Atom)

Wonder Man

Wong

Wong (Ultimate)

Wraith

Wrecker

Wrecking Crew

X

X-23

X-51

X-Babies

X-Cutioner

X-Factor

X-Factor Investigations

X-Force

X-Man

X-Men

X-Men (Ultimate)

X-Ray (James Darnell)

X-Statix

X.S.E.

Xavin

Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn)

Y

Yellow Claw

Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara)

Young Avengers

Young X-Men

Z

Zaladane

Zaran

Zarda

Zarek

Zeigeist

Zemo

Zodiak

Zombie (Simon Garth)

Zuras

Zzzax

3

3-D Man