DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment,[2] a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner. DC Comics is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in American comic books, and produces material featuring numerous well-known heroic characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Shazam, Hawkman and Green Arrow. The fictional DC universe also features teams such as the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, and the Teen Titans, and well-known villains such as Joker, Lex Luthor, Catwoman, Darkseid, Ra's al Ghul, Deathstroke, Sinestro, Black Adam and Brainiac. The company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo.…

Marvel and DC Comics have had a friendly rivalry since the 1930s starting from the comic books and now going into the movies. DC characters are heroes and demigods among humans. Their stories tell how they use their powers to fight crime and that they are heroes because their superpowers. Marvel characters are the opposite they were created not as heroes but as relatable normal human beings with problems and normal stories. Their character development is about how they deal with their…

These two universes are great on their own, or even liking both of them together. In any case, DC has proven to trump Marvel when it comes to making animated films, and video games. Nevertheless, Marvel is superior when it comes to fully developing their superheroes. Giving them full character arcs and making them deal with real world problems. Even though DC comics came out 5 years before Marvel comics, Marvel managed to get their comic book characters out there to the mainstream audience…

As I walked down the street to a local comic book shop, I thought to myself “what am I going to read today”. I walked into the store not knowing what I was going to get, so I started looking around and found several different brands of comics. There was Marvel, DC Universe, and Dark Horse Comics. I looked at them all and it was crazy there were so many good titles like “Deadpool”, ”Star Wars”,and ”Batman”. I was so intrigued by it all I must have sat there for hours daydreaming. It was hard…

All publications by Vertigo come with a label reading, ‘suggested for mature readers’. An imprint of DC Comics, Vertigo originally provided a platform for comics that weren’t directly linked with DC universe superheroes, although more recently has given way to darker stories containing material better suited to older audiences. In the 1990’s, the time when Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comics were being published, the majority of DC Comics’ readership consisted of boys aged 16 and younger (Craig,…

On the other hand, DC Entertainment is currently owned by Warner Brothers, which is a subsidiary to Time Warner. Time Warner is broken up into 3 main segments, which includes Turner, Home Box Office and Warner Bros. As of the 2015 - 2016 television season, Warner Brothers was ranked as the number 1 producer of primetime television series in the United States. The Warner Brothers segment consists primarily of the production, distribution, licensing of television series and feature films. In…

Squad ! Suicide Squad is an upcoming American superhero film adapted from the DC Comics wannabe group of the same name. It is proposed to be the third part in the DC Extended Universe. The film is written and directed by David Ayer and stars a strong cast highlighting Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, and Scott Eastwood. By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was being developed at Warner Bros.…

“Wonder Woman” by Gloria Steinem is an essay about comic books having power in everyday life. Comics book tend to only be about super-heroes that save the day—but those super-heroes are men. Wonder Woman is the first female super-hero to be published continually since comic books began. Steinem mentions that Wonder Woman is a gateway for young girls to believe that they do not need to rely on men to save them—but they themselves can save the day. “Comic books have power because they are not…

Rhapsody (and the list goes on) designed for mainstream airplay. This Injustice League jaunt proves that DC is still a long way behind Marvel for on-screen action.Yes ,I am talking about the latest over-hyped movie Suicide Squad. When the first "Suicide Squad" trailer came out, audiences were skeptical. Fans of Task Force X were unsure about Jared Leto's Joker and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, who looked like blitzed-out gang members perhaps more…

They are called The Fastest Man Alive. Did you know that there are four people who call themselves The Flash? Did you know the are two TV shows of The Flash? Did you know that Gerdener Fox Created The Flash and The Justice League of America Jay, Barry, Wally, and Bart are the four Flashes. Barry and Wally are part of The Justice League of America (JLA). The Rival is Jay’s opposite. The Reverse Flash is Barry’s opposite. Zoom is Wally’s opposite. Flashpoint messes up everything. There are more…