DC Retroactive

DC Retroactive
Cover for DC Retroactive – Batman: 1970s (Sept. 2011). Art by Tom Mandrake.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	September and October 2011
Number of issues	18
Main character(s)	Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, the Justice League, Superman, Wonder Woman
Creative team
Writer(s)	List Brian Augustyn, Mike W. Barr, Cary Bates, Gerry Conway, J. M. DeMatteis, Keith Giffen, Alan Grant, Ron Marz, William Messner-Loebs, Dennis O'Neil, Martin Pasko, Louise Simonson, Roy Thomas, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman
Artist(s)	List Jerry Bingham, Jon Bogdanove, J. Bone, Norm Breyfogle, Sergio Cariello, Mike Grell, Greg LaRocque, Kevin Maguire, Tom Mandrake, Ron Randall
Penciller(s)	List Darryl Banks, Eduardo Barreto, Mike Bowden, Rich Buckler, Benito Gallego, Lee Moder, Gordon Purcell, Joe Staton
Inker(s)	List Terry Austin, Sal Buscema, Christian Duce, Dan Green, Andy Owens, Joe Rubinstein, Joe Seung, Andy Smith

DC Retroactive is a one-shot line of comic book titles launched by DC Comics. It revisited periods (grouped by decades) of the company’s main characters: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League and the Flash. These comics were published with cover dates of September and October 2011. The DC Retroactive comic books followed the Flashpoint events and were launched just before The New 52 line wherein DC titles were relaunched starting from #1.

The one-shots featured different characters with a nostalgic version of their most representative decades. DC brought back some of the most relevant creative teams in the history of its main characters. Dennis O'Neil wrote Batman during the 1970s, as well as working with artist Mike Grell on the mid-1970s version of Green Lantern.

The Retroactive line also brought back writers and artists had not worked for DC for many years; some of whom had retired from comics, such as Rich Buckler, who drew one Wonder Woman story. Mike W. Barr, Cary Bates, Norm Breyfogle, Gerry Conway, Tom Mandrake, and Len Wein worked on the characters which they were associated with in the past.

Each comic book was published in a 46-page format, split between 26 pages of new content, plus 20 pages of reprinted tales.