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Parent company | Warner Bros. |
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Status | Active |
Founded | 1934National Allied Publications) | (as
Founder | Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Burbank, California |
Distribution | Warner Bros. |
Key people |
Diane Nelson (President) Dan DiDio (Co-Publisher) Jim Lee (Co-Publisher) Bob Harras (Editor In Chief) Geoff Johns (President and Chief Creative Officer) Patrick Caldon (EVP, Finance and Administration) John Rood (EVP, Sales, Marketing and Business Development) |
Publication types | Comics/See List of DC Comics publications |
Fiction genres | Crime, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction, war, Western |
Imprints | imprint list |
Owner(s) | Time Warner |
Official website | www |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | September 2009 |
Products | Film, television, video games |
Website | www |
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., a division of Time Warner. DC Comics is one of the largest, oldest, 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, Martian Manhunter, The Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Shazam, Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Green Arrow. The fictional DC universe 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 Joker, Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Catwoman, Ra's al Ghul, Deathstroke, Professor Zoom, 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.