About:
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DC is a large and popular American comic book company. It is commonly known for popular comic books like Justice League, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. DC first started as National Allied Publications in 1935.
History:
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National Allied Publications, owned by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, which debuted the New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine in 1935 and soon new comics in December of the same year. The Golden Age of Comic Books begin and with it National Allied Publications change their comic book’s name to Adventure Comics, which became one of the longest comic books series. Next, they produced Detective Comics which featured Batman, which would go on to be on to be one of DC’s biggest names. The name DC came from Detective Comics. Finally DC released Action Comics, in 1938, which featured Superman, who would soon bring the popularity to the superhero comic books.[1]
Modern Age:
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Sometimes know as the dark ages do it the gritty comics put out like Watchmen and like The Dark Knight Returns. DC now started producing horror and non-superhero comics. During this time DC gets much popularity with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. The books were praised for being dark and gritty and help opened up the door for dark comic books.[1][2]
Today:
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Today DC is still a popular comic company, being the most successful in America.
Movies:
DC has released a number of movies based on there comics, but only a few have been a finical success. Man of steel grossed $291,021,565 and Dark Knight Rises grossed $448,130,642. [3][4]
Video games:
DC has licensed multiple DC video games. The Arkham series features 3 video games and is ongoing. Arkham Asylum got high scores by all reviewers and won game of the year. DC, in partnership with Lego has released two Lego Batman games, Lego Batman and Lego Batman 2: Dc Super Heroes.
Fandom
DC has a huge fandom on the web. Kryptonsite is a fansite the sub fandom of the TV show Smallville which acts as a DC new site and haven for Smallville fans. Fauxdc is a fanfic website for DC fanfic series. Also Fanfiction.net has over 2000 DC fanfics. Dcuwiki.net is a huge online encyclopedia of the DC universe. They have 1300+ character pages and pages for most of the comic books.
Offline people still show there DC love. Many people cosplay as DC characters at cons and events. People flock to new DC movies and watch DC TV shows like DC Nation Shorts or Beware the Batman. DC merchandise such as toys, hats, and shirts, are everywhere.
Fan art
Related Memes:
My eyes are up here
“My eyes are up here” is a fraise used by people, but mostly women, to tell the person to look at their face, not their breasts or other body part. This fraise gained popularity in 2005 because of Power Girl’s large breast and peoples tendency to look at them and not at her face, starting in JSA Classified Volume 1. [5]
Handsome face
Handsome Face is a picture of Superman, from the animated movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, It is usually accompanied with “X(person spoken to), I…” [6]
Batman
Batman is the protector of Gotham in DC comics. Batman, who is actually Bruce Wayne, parents were murdered when he was 8. He uses his inherited wealth to make gadgets, suits, and vehicles to fight crime with. Some of Batman’s archvillains are the Joker, Two-Face, Bane, The Penguin and Poison Ivy. [7]
My parents are dead
Batman Slapping Robin, or “My Parents Are Dead” is image of the Batman slapping Robin in mid-conversation. The image comes from a panel from the 1965 comic book “World’s Finest #153. [8]
Superman
Superman is a popular DC superhero, in his series he is the last survivor of his home planet, Krypton. Superman’s powers include, super strength, super speed, flight, X-ray and heat vision. Some of Superman’s enemies are Lex Luthor, General Zod, and Bizarro to name a few. [9]
External References:
[2]Wikipedia – Modern Age of comcis
[3]IMBd – The Dark Knight Rises
[4]IMBd – Man of Steel
[5]Know Your Meme – My eyes are up here
[6]Know Your Meme -HandsomeFace
[8]Know Your Meme -My parents are dead