This is a list of characters owned or published primarily by
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
. Note that most, but not all of these characters are depicted as existing within the fictional continuity of the "
DC UniverseThe DC Universe is the shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe. Note that in context, "DC Universe" is usually used to refer to the main DC continuity...
;" some listed are part of the
WildstormWildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, publishes American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
Universe, others of
Alan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell...
's America's Best Comics line, and others are characters from Warner Brothers animations and films,
ElseworldsElseworlds is the publication imprint for a group of comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon. According to its tagline: "In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that...
or from companies below with reference. In the eighties, DC published comics under the name of
Who's Who in the DC UniverseWho's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe is the umbrella title for a number of comic book series which DC Comics published to catalogue the wide variety of fictional characters in their imaginary universe, the DC Universe.-History:Who's Who was the creation of Len Wein, Marv...
to catalogue the characters they had then.
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This is a list of characters owned or published primarily by
DC ComicsDC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary company of Warner Bros. Entertainment...
. Note that most, but not all of these characters are depicted as existing within the fictional continuity of the "
DC UniverseThe DC Universe is the shared universe where most of the comic stories published by DC Comics take place. The fictional characters Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are well-known superheroes from this universe. Note that in context, "DC Universe" is usually used to refer to the main DC continuity...
;" some listed are part of the
WildstormWildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, publishes American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
Universe, others of
Alan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell...
's America's Best Comics line, and others are characters from Warner Brothers animations and films,
ElseworldsElseworlds is the publication imprint for a group of comic books produced by DC Comics that take place outside the company's canon. According to its tagline: "In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places — some that have existed, and others that...
or from companies below with reference. In the eighties, DC published comics under the name of
Who's Who in the DC UniverseWho's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe is the umbrella title for a number of comic book series which DC Comics published to catalogue the wide variety of fictional characters in their imaginary universe, the DC Universe.-History:Who's Who was the creation of Len Wein, Marv...
to catalogue the characters they had then. DC had also published a
ShowcaseShowcase has been the title of several anthology series published by DC Comics. The general theme of these series has been to feature new and minor characters as a way to gauge reader interest in them, without the difficulty and risk of featuring "untested" characters in their own ongoing titles...
series, a
DC Comics PresentsDC Comics Presents was a comic book published by DC Comics from 1978 to 1986 featuring team-ups between Superman and a wide variety of other characters of the DC Universe...
series, a
Secret OriginsSecret Origins was an American comic book series published by DC Comics. Although the title had existed in several prototype forms in the 1960s and 1970s published under the title Secret Origins of Super Heroes , its most well-known incarnation was a 50-issue series Secret Origins was an American...
,
House of MysteryThe House of Mystery is the name of several horror-mystery-suspense anthology comic book series. It had a companion series, House of Secrets.-Genesis:...
, House of SecretsThe House of Secrets is the name of several mystery-suspense, anthology comic book series published by DC Comics. It had a companion series titled House of Mystery.- First series :...
, Legends of the DC Universe, The Brave and the BoldThe Brave and the Bold is the title shared by many comic book series published by DC Comics. The first of these was published as an ongoing series from 1955 to 1983...
Showcase PresentsShowcase Presents is a line of black and white paperback books published by DC Comics at an average rate of two per month. Created to effectively be DC's version of Marvel's Essential volumes, each book includes 500+ pages of reprints, primarily from the Silver Age...
series and a
DC Cosmic CardsDC Cosmic Cards is a card set made by Skybox in 1992-93. In a similar fashion to Marvel Universe Cards, the set featured biographies of DC characters from the Silver age, teams, crossovers and events....
line to keep track with their characters.
America's Best, Homage, Wildstorm, Helix Press, DC/Elseworlds, ImpactImpact Comics was an imprint of DC Comics that was aimed at younger audiences. It was begun in 1991 and ended by 1993....
, TangentTangent Comics was a DC Comics imprint created in 1997-1998, developed from ideas created by Dan Jurgens. The line, formed from various one-shots, focused on creating all-new characters using established DC names, such as the Joker, Batman, and the Flash...
, DC/Milestone Press, Paradox Press, Piranha Press, and
DC/Vertigo Press Comics are all trademark publications of the
DC comics group.
Amalgam ComicsAmalgam Comics was an American comic book publisher of metafiction; it was a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones...
published by DC Comics are partially included with reference.
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See also
- :Category:DC Comics characters
- :Category:Lists of DC Comics characters
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