DC Comics Wikipedia. This article is about the US publisher of comics. For the Scottish publisher of comics and newspapers, see DC Thomson. DC Comics. DC Comics current logo, introduced with the launch of its DC Rebirth comic line in 2. Parent company. Warner Bros. Status. Active. Founded. National Allied PublicationsFounder. Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson. Country of origin. United States. Headquarters location. Burbank, California. Distribution. Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Diamond Comic Distributors. Key people. Publication types. ComicsSee List of DC Comics publications. Fiction genres. Crime, superhero, comedy, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, war, Western. Imprintsimprint list. OwnersOfficial websitewww. Detective Comics 27' title='Detective Comics 27' />DC Comics, Inc. American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment,45 a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., a division of Time Warner. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, and produces material featuring numerous well known heroic characters including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Aquaman, Hawkman, and Green Arrow. Most of their material takes place in the fictional. DC Universe, which also features teams such as the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, the Suicide Squad, and the Teen Titans, and well known villains such as the Joker, Lex Luthor, The Cheetah, Harley Quinn, Darkseid, Catwoman, Ras al Ghul, Deathstroke, Reverse Flash, 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. The initials DC came from the companys popular series Detective Comics, which featured Batmans debut and subsequently became part of the companys name. Originally in Manhattan at 4. Fourth Avenue, the DC Comics offices have been located at 4. Lexington Avenue 9. Third Avenue 7. 5 Rockefeller Plaza 6. Fifth Avenue and 1. Avenue of the Americas. DC had its headquarters at 1. Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, but it was announced in October 2. DC Entertainment would relocate its headquarters from New York to Burbank, California in 2. Random House distributes DC Comics books to the bookstore market,8 while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics acquired in 2. The Walt Disney Company, Time Warners main competitor together shared 7. American comic book market in 2. HistoryeditOriginseditEntrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson founded National Allied Publications in autumn 1. The company debuted with the tabloid sized New Fun The Big Comic Magazine 1 with a cover date of February 1. The companys second title, New Comics 1 Dec. Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than todays. That title evolved into Adventure Comics, which continued through issue 5. In 2. 00. 9 DC revived Adventure Comics with its original numbering. National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc. National Comics Publications on September 30, 1946, which absorbed an affiliated concern. CHAPTER 3 of 3 THE HAUNTING OF ROBERT KANE If the general public knows Robert Kane at ALL, they know him as Bob Kane, the man who created Batman then went on to. Buy Marvel DC Comic Books Online. New customers Save up to 25 use code NEW4. This page contains information about Detective Comics Volume 1. Detective Comics was an. We have your comics buy comics online at TFAW and save 1040 Enjoy fast shipping, low prices, and a huge selection of comic books every day. Try our. Publisher of comics such as 30 Days of Night, Popbot, and Gene Pool. Includes previews and galleries. DCComics. com Welcome to the Official Site for DC. DC is home to the Worlds Greatest Super Heroes, including SUPERMAN, BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN, GREEN LANTERN, THE. A cover gallery for the comic book Detective Comics. In 1. 93. 5, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the future creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult, who is the earliest DC Comics character to still be in the DC Universe. Wheeler Nicholsons third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1. March 1. 93. 7 cover date. The themed anthology series would become a sensation with the introduction of Batman in issue 2. May 1. 93. 9. By then, however, Wheeler Nicholson had gone. In 1. 93. 7, in debt to printing plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeldwho also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent NewsWheeler Nicholson had to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics 1. Detective Comics, Inc. Wheeler Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfelds accountant, listed as owners. Major Wheeler Nicholson remained for a year, but cash flow problems continued, and he was forced out. Shortly afterward, Detective Comics, Inc. National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction. Detective Comics, Inc. Action Comics, the premiere of which introduced Superman. Action Comics 1 June 1. The company quickly introduced such other popular characters as the Sandman and Batman. On February 2. 2, 2. Action Comics 1 June 1. RijN_s_b3lk/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Detective Comics 27' title='Detective Comics 27' />This fall, DC gives us what weve all been waiting for with cant miss issues of Action Comics and Detective Comics. The Rebirth mysteries of Mr. Oz and the whereabouts of Tim Drake will be the central focus of Action Comics and Detective Comics beginning in September. In advance. Golden AgeeditNational Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics, Inc. National Comics Publications on September 3. Max Gaines and Liebowitz All American Publications. That 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. National Periodical Publications became publicly traded on the stock market in 1. Despite the official names National Comics and National Periodical Publications, the company began branding itself as Superman DC as early as 1. DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1. Captain Marvel creator C. C. Beck 1. 91. 0 1. October, 1. 98. 2 Minneapolis Comic Con. 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. File Er Resume Broken S Firefox on this page. This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics top selling character see National Comics Publications, Inc. Fawcett Publications, Inc. Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous Captain Marvels powers came from magic, unlike Supermans, the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred. Faced with declining sales and the prospect of bankruptcy if it lost, Fawcett capitulated in 1. Years later, Fawcett sold the rights for Captain Marvel to DCwhich in 1. Captain Marvel in the new title Shazam C. C. Beck. In the meantime, the abandoned trademark had been seized by Marvel Comics in 1. Captain Marvel, disallowing 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 1. Westerns, humor, and romance. DC also published crime and horror titles, but relatively tame ones, and thus avoided the mid 1. A handful of the most popular superhero titles, including Action Comics and Detective Comics, the mediums two longest running titles, continued publication. Silver AgeeditIn the mid 1. 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 Flashs civilian identity, costume, and origin with a science fiction bent.