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the world's largest DC Comics encyclopedia anyone can edit.
Our project contains 38,365 articles and 35,961 images.
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A Brief History of 
Comics
DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. A subsidiary of Time Warner, DC is responsible for such famous characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Aquaman and their teammates in the Justice League. For decades, DC Comics has been one of the two largest American comic book companies, along with Marvel Comics. The initials "DC" were originally an abbreviation for Detective Comics, and later the official name.
Early comic book pioneers include Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Julius Schwartz, Gardner Fox, and Jack Kirby.
Recent DC projects in other media include the movies Batman Begins, Superman Returns, The Dark Knight, and the upcoming Human Target series on Fox this Fall.
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The Doom Patrol were a group of freaks created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney in 1963. In his forward to the Doom Patrol Archives Volume 1, Drake relates how the anthology titles that DC was publishing at the time were floundering and he was asked to come up with a new superhero title. Drake jokes that he was told this on a Thursday and was to present his idea on Tuesday. Developing the baisc concept and two characters (Elasti-Girl and "Automaton" (later Robotman)) that night, he enlisted fellow writer Bob Haney, and they, 90 miles apart, finalized the concept. The first appearance of the Doom Patrol pre-dated that of the X-Men by a scant three months. The vague similarity in concept (group of misfits led by a mysterious wheel-chair bound genius, and similarly named enemies (Brotherhood of Evil and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants)) has led to speculation as to the relation between them, if any.
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