DC Comics

On a random Friday night there is a crowd in front of the movie theatre for the premiere of the newest Avengers. A group of friends streams the latest season of Orange is the New Black on Netflix. Multiple people pick up George R.R. Martin’s new book in the bookstore. It is no secret that the entertainment industry has a heavy influence on American lives. The media has always been the source of controversy regarding its content. However, there is one issue that continues to occur in…

Superman is a DC comics superhero created in 1933 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Since his first appearance in Action Comics #1, he appeared in radio serials, TV shows, movies, newspaper strips etc. It was his huge success and popularity that established the superhero genre as the center of comic book culture in the US. Superman's characteristics and traits changed more than once over the years, and those changes were explained as parallel universes. However, throughout all those changes,…

As the sun goes down in the city of Gotham, a dark knight appears out from the shadows stopping all crime. Created in the 1930´s, DC Comics super heroes Batman and Superman use all their strength and abilities to help save the Earth. Batman is human and has no powers. While Superman has powers and is an alien from the planet Krypton. Batman is a better example of a superhero than Superman. Batman is more of a superior super hero than Superman due to his peak human abilities, determination, and…

linked all together until the big reunion of them all, like in the Avengers. They planned to do it for what they call a second “arc”: Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and finally a new Avengers movie in 2016. But as this model is also used by DC Comics for Batman VS Superman movie, we can ourselves one question: Is this model sustainable and desirable? Firstly, we’ll see that this model brought a lot of things to current movies and is the fashionable model. Secondly, I’ll show that the…

, commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American publisher of comic books. Marvel Comics created countless stories, universes, and heroes. They grow in numbers and quality as Marvel grows as a company. Martin Goodman founded Marvel Comics, which was original Timely Publications, in 1939. Goodman was a pulp magazine publisher who was expanding into a new medium of comic books. The post-war comic market saw superheroes falling…

purpose? When it comes to female superheroes they have been over sexualized since their first creation. No one can truly understand the full complexity of a female superhero when all the viewers can look at is the front and the back. Creator of DC Comics, William Marston, says “Wonder Women, who was created in 1941, was a feminine character with all the strength of Super Man plus all the allure of “good”, beautiful women” (Lecture). This was known as the beginning of the sexualized stigma…

could ‘fly’ around the house being Superman because of that old TV show. I later became a fan of the comics and read many of his adventures in DC Comics. I loved the action, the powers that Superman had, and wished to be like him in every way possible. He became a true hero to me just like he did for many other children. It has also been said that Superman was more than just a superhero in comics. It has been argued that he can be linked to Jesus Christ in many ways. But is Superman…

A hero can be classified by many things. A hero can be superman, a police officer, and even your mom, but what makes a hero? Is it someone who can fly or shoot laser beams from their eyes or someone who saves a baby from a burning building? I’ll admit some of these characteristics are far-fetched since I don’t know anyone who can fly or randomly saves babies on a normal day. All heroes, including super ones, all have something in common, they're admired for their courage or an outstanding thing…

Most of the heroes in the superhero universe can be broken down into three groups. Marvel and DC Comics are the main contributors to this superhero fandom. These two companies even contributed the term superhero. Neither company owns it, they just share it. Many of the interesting heroes/ heroines have brain powers, body powers, and some are even powerless. I like to call this class the Brainiac’s. Not because they are smart, but because they have brain powers. Brain powers include telekinesis,…

“The Pro-Social Mission” If you think about what a superhero means to you, many answers may fly around like bravery, strength, or power. Very rarely do you ever hear about what exactly makes a superhero, super. In my opinion, I believe it is this pro-social mission that keeps them going on the never ending battle against the fight with evil. A hero can have as many powers or identities that they want to have, but the most important component of their being is that they have a specific goal in…