DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. since 1967. Popular characters published by the company include: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Cyborg and Supergirl. Popular DC Comics teams include Justice League, Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, Teen Titans, and Watchmen.
Former US Army Cavalry Officer and pulp writer Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson founded the precursor to the company we now know as DC Comics, National Allied Publications in autumn 1934. His first comic book, the tabloid-sized New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 was cover dated February 1935 .
Detective Comics, a detective-themed anthology series, debuted with a March 1937 cover date, and would introduce Batman to the world with Detective Comics #27, cover-dated May 1939. The initials "D.C." in DC Comics come from the title Detective Comics.
The publisher would release its most important issue ever with Action Comics #1, cover-dated June 1938, and the comic book that introduced Superman to the world.
As a subsidiary of Warner Bros, the publisher's characters and teams have been the subject of numerous tv series, films, and games.
Halfway through a six-hour meeting between the Santa Clara City Council, city authorities and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Tuesday, Batman arrived to confront the official over the city's stance on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. At least we think it was Batman, you never can tell. Among a number of […]
Clay or Daughter Of Zeus? The War of Wonder Woman's origin continues, as it has done for 85 years, with a brand new entry into the mix. But first, back to the beginning… Wonder Woman's origin story, written by her co-creator William Moulton Marsden back in 1942, states that she was sculpted from clay by her mother, Queen […]
Bleeding Cool scooped the news a while back that DC Comics would be publishing and concluding Rick Veitch's run on Swamp Thing, with both the unreleased Swamp Thing #88 and the three planned but unpublished following issues, Swamp Thing #89-91. But of course, it's quite a thing to publish the final four issues of a […]
Today sees the publication of Justice League Quarterly: DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight Special #1 by Jeremy Adams, Travis Mercer, in which Jon Kent, son of Superman and Lois Lane is babysitting the young sidekicks of the DC universe as the K.O. battle rages…. The Boom, Fairplay, Cheshire Cat and Quiz Kid. No one seems […]
Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers… Deniz Camp is quite the political comic book writer. His breakout book 20th Century Men was an alternate history superhero stry that reimagined the Soviet-Afghan and Vietnam Wars and other Cold War tensions, with decolonial themes ahead of World War III, including a Soviet superman, a superpowered US president and described as […]
Today sees DC Comics publish four tie-ins to DC's K.O. event, with Superman #34 by Joshua Williamson and Eddy Barrows, Justice League Unlimited #15 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, The Flash #29 by Mark Waid, Christopher Cantwell, Vasco Georgiev and Justice League Quarterly: DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight Special #1 by Jeremy […]
Bleeding Cool reported last year that DC Comics was to run previous to the new DC Vertigo line in their Absolute titles and, with four Absolute titles published this week, so it has come to pass with zombie-point-of-view adventure Bleeding Hearts #1 by Absolute Martian Manhunter writer Deniz Camp, drawn by Stipan Morian, coloured by […]
In 2022, Tom King and Daniel Sampere launched a new ongoing Wonder Woman comic book series from DC Comics that put Wonder Woman, and all of the Amazons, at odds with the American government, working at the behest of the true power behind the throne, The Sovereign. Narrating the series, and part of a lineage […]
DC Comics will be publishing a new "The World" hardcover anthology volume with contributions from international creators, Supergirl: The World, to follow similar Batman, Superman and Joker volumes by writers and artists from 15 countries across the globe. Arriving on the 2nd of June, 2026, ahead of the Supergirl movie being released at the end […]
This week should really be dubbed Absolute Universe Week at DC Comics. As a result of a few delays here and there, we will have four Absolute titles out on Wednesday, Absolute Batman #16 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta with an Absolute Wonder Woman crossover, Absolute Wonder Woman #16 by Kelly Thompson and Hayden […]
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Once I go down a rabbit hole, I keep on going. Such as with Tom King and the death of Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler, at the hands of Bane, in front of Damian Wayne, as a way to punish Robin from entering Gotham and to send a message in Batman #77 in 2019. This was […]
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Two podcasts, separated by three years, but the first sent me on a deep dive to the second. Uncensored Nerds podcast We Got Issues With Tom King saw Tom King look back on some of old comic book runs, namely Heroes In Crisis and Batman for DC Comics. "I regret putting Wally West in" Heroes […]
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Absolute Wonder Woman writer Kelly Thompson took to Tumblr to talk about the newly solicited issue of Absolute Wonder Woman for April, as well as the new arc launching this week. She says "Seems like it's time to re-post this with the debut of The Troika on the ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #19 (MAR) cover release […]
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