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The final series in the initial line-up was Shade the Changing Girl by Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone, with covers by Becky Cloonan. Additionally the line introduced two new characters, Jenny Hex, a teenage descendant of the Western hero Jonah Hex, and Teen Lantern, a teen who manages to hack into a Green Lantern power battery. [87], 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. In December 1992, Prince: Alter Ego, based on the rock star Prince, hit the stands. Discovery.[6][7]. 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". In August 1998, DC purchased Wildstorm including imprints Cliffhanger, Homage and America's Best Comics with the imprints appearing under the DC banner in January 1999. The artist gets paid Marvel/DC rates and is brought on in a WFH capacity. The line was launched with The Plain Janes, the line's signature title. DC Zoom is focused on young readers, while DC Ink is aimed at young adults. Boom! This successful revitalization of the Silver Age Teen Titans led DC's editors[74] to seek the same for the wider DC Universe. Spearheaded by editor Karen Berger, all DC Comics titles bearing the Vertigo logo catered to not only more mature readers, but more sophisticated writers and artists as well. Lines of comic books are related comic books that do not necessarily have their own imprint. [dct 3] 1998 also saw the end of the Helix imprint as its top title was moved to Vertigo, where reprints of the Helix titles also were printed under. 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. Disney buying DC Comics 2021. The superhero called Sandman was first written in issue No. [88][89], On June 4, 2013, DC unveiled two new digital comic innovations to enhance interactivity: DC2 and DC2 Multiverse. [76] 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.[77]. In a May 2017 editorial leadership reorganization, three Executive Editors split up DC Comics and its imprints. [19][20] The company created a second recurring title called New Comics No. For much of its history, the company was colloquially known as DC Comics, but it did not officially adopt that name until 1977. [67] 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". DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid-1950s backlash against such comics. . And with Alex Ross art, the . The Silver Age The limited series was six issues long, published in 2010 and written by Brian Azzarello, and drawn by Rags Morales featuring the main characters of the universe. [46], By February 2011, DC planned to cancel the line;[47] however, the Doc Savage and The Spirit titles were solicited as late as August 2011. [13] In February 2012, DC listed a First Wave collection for a May 2012 release. In July, the imprint launched the Vertigo Pop: Tokyo title, lasting four issues and including some manga, and the successful Y: The Last Man lasting to January 2008 and 60 issues. [75], 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. [102] The main presentation, entitled "DC FanDome: Hall of Heroes", was held as scheduled on August 22. [dct 11] An annual anthology, TSR Worlds #1, was launched in July 1990 with Spelljammer, beginning a 15 issues run the next month. The Daily Planet (a common setting of Superman) was first named in a Superman newspaper strip around November 1939. 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. It was an anthology title essentially for original stories not reprinted from newspaper strips, unlike many comic book series before it. [52], The New Age of Heroes, originally called Dark Matter, spun out of DC comics' 2017 event Dark Nights: Metal. Irwin said he never played golf with Goodman, so the story is untrue. 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. We used to have fun ones. Corporate history [36] Cliffhanger merged with Homage to become "WildStorm Signature Series". DC had its headquarters at 1700 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, but DC Entertainment relocated its headquarters to Burbank, California in April 2015. [dct 4] The same year, Vertigo saw another Fables spin-off, Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love and its 100-page "Spectacular" reprints program began. 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. [43] Fawcett Comics was formed around 1939 and would become DC's original competitor company in the next decade. The character originally acquired by DC (Ted Kord) is still being used, but the main Blue Beetle is now Jaime Reyes. 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. DC lines currently includes Batman, Green Lantern, Edge, supernatural and young superheroes. Characters such as Green Arrow & Aquaman were still being shown in backup features during the time between the Golden & Silver ages. The line was instead launched as a series of one-shots in August 2009. In the 60s, a New Jersey parking lot company bought the publishers of DC Comics and Show more. The November 1941 DC titles introduced an updated logo. 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CNBC first reported that the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, is the trojan horse to have the deal completed. Discovery. In the same month, the imprint added The Batman Strikes, a comic based on the Cartoon Network series The Batman, and Cartoon Network Block Party, an anthology title. The line was supposed to be a newsstand based line aimed at the younger readers within its own self-contained universe. All-Star was DC's answer to Marvel's Ultimate imprint. [dct 3] In August 1998, DC purchased Wildstorm Productions, including imprints Cliffhanger, Homage and ABC. A companion publication, two volumes entitled The History of the DC Universe, set out the revised history of the major DC characters. [3][4] In December 1997, the Tangent Comics imprint was published on skip week, then on skip week of September 1998. It's a . The name "Superman" was added to "A DC Publication", effectively acknowledging both Superman and Batman. [78][79] The stories in the line were part of its own shared universe.[80]. 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. The character Doctor Occult, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in December 1935 with issue No. Today, CCG serves. Kinney National spun off its non-entertainment assets in 1972 (as National Kinney Corporation) and changed its name to Warner Communications Inc. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. What if DC bought Marvel in the late 90s? The book establishing the imprint's tone was Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (BSUC), an anthology by Dave Louapre and Dan Sweetman. [1][16][17] 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. All titles are edited by Jamie S. By Graeme McMillan. [15][18] While superhero comics are what DC Comics is known for throughout modern times, the genres in the first anthology titles consisted of funnies, Western comics and adventure-related stories. Also within the Batman story was the supporting character, James Gordon, Police commissioner of what later would be Gotham City Police Department. Pat McCallum took the DC superhero titles and Mark Doyle the two mature imprints, Vertigo and Young Animal. [dci 3] In July, the Helix science fiction imprint was launched. Three new titles, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam!, Tiny Titans and Super Friends, were launched in August 2007 by Coordinating Editor Jann Jones. [11], America's Best Comics (ABC) was an imprint of Wildstorm, originating before Wildstorm's purchase by DC comics in 1998. The themed anthology that revolved originally around fictional detective stories became in modern times the longest-running ongoing comic series. [108], DC Comics' current logo, introduced with the DC Rebirth relaunch in 2016. Vertigo took over publishing collected editions for the Helix titles. Most series received eight-page back-up features while some had full-length twenty-five-page stories.