With Knowles ' wide role assumed in the production of Survivor, Gil Kaufman of MTV noted that " it became clear that Beyoncé was emerging as DC's unequivocal musical leader and public face ".

Having created her, Gaiman used Titania as a recurring character throughout the series, and when he was asked part way through his run on The Sandman to write a script to introduce DC's magical characters to a new audience he gave her a guest role in the resultant mini-series, The Books of Magic.

After DC Comics ' company-wide crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths revamped and streamlined many of DC's properties, Chop-Chop's old depictions are suggested to be those of a comic-book-within-a-comic-book style format that features the team's adventures, with Chop-Chop playing the role of sidekick.

Eschewing the role of publisher in order to return to illustration, Lee sold Wildstorm in 1998 to DC Comics, where he continued to run Wildstorm as a DC imprint until DC ended Wildstorm in 2010, as well as illustrating successful books set in DC's main fictional universe, such as the year-long " Batman: Hush " and " Superman: For Tomorrow " storylines.

As part of DC's " One Year Later ", Gordon has returned to the role of Commissioner ; as of the year-long jump he has been back in the job for 3 months.

In this alternate version of events, Cyborg is America's greatest superhero ( occupying the role held by Superman in DC's standard timeline ).

She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in the American television series Smallville based on DC's Comics Superman.

Vicki Vale plays the role of a romantic interest for Bruce Wayne in the series All Star Batman and Robin, which is written by Frank Miller and drawn by Jim Lee as part of DC's All Star line of comics.

KC was given a lifeline in the 58th minute as DC's Dema Kovalenko was expelled from the match for a handball in the penalty area and Josh Wolff scored the first penalty kick conversion in MLS Cup history.

The series was set on DC's Earth-Two, an alternative universe in which Golden Age comic characters proceed and age subsequent to their first appearances in real time.

Thus by the early 1980s Superman was in his 60s and the Batman had died and been succeeded by his daughter, The Huntress, whereas the Superman and Batman of Earth-One, DC's primary universe, are perpetually young to early middle-age adults.

When Flattop was eventually killed, fans went into public mourning, and The Flattop Story was reprinted in its entirety in DC's series of Oversize Comic Reprints in the 1970s.

DC's mission, in Moro's vision, was intended to recover the popular class that supported Fascism and ferry them in the democratic system.

The entire initial print run was destroyed and reprinted because the publisher felt that this could be perceived as an attack on Marvel Comics, DC's main competition.

The sequel, which differs drastically in style from the original, received mixed reviews but was one of DC's biggest selling titles at the time.

Shooter wrote the first issue of Captain Action ( Oct .- Nov. 1968 ), which was DC's first toy tie-in.

However, after the introduction of DC's multiverse in the 1960s, this version of Krypton was declared to be the Krypton of the Earth-Two universe ( the native dimension of DC's Golden Age characters ) and its Superman.

The title of the series was inspired by earlier crossover stories involving the multiple parallel Earths of the Multiverse, such as " Crisis on Earth-Two " and " Crisis on Earth-Three ", but instead of lasting two to five issues and involving members from many superhero teams from many parallel worlds, it involved virtually every significant character from every parallel universe in DC's history.

If something happened outside current continuity ( such as the so-called " Imaginary Stories " that were a staple of DC's Silver Age publications ), it was explained away as happening on a parallel world, a premise not dissimilar to the company's current Elseworlds imprint.

Crisis was originally conceived to be a celebration of DC's 50th anniversary ; however, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein saw it as a chance to clean up DC's rather convoluted continuity ( which was thought to have put many new readers off buying DC titles ) that had built up over time.

The Justice League of America title was cancelled, to be replaced by a new series entitled simply Justice League, featuring a new cast drawn from what had been different universes in DC's pre-Crisis multiverse.

The Sandman was advertised as " a horror-edged fantasy set in the DC Universe " in most of DC's comics dated " Holiday 1988 ," an extra issue tying in with the Invasion!

By the time the series concluded in 1996, it was outselling the titles of DC's flagship character Superman.

After the events of DC's Infinite Crisis crossover and the World War III event that was chronicled in 52, JSA members Jay Garrick, Alan Scott, and Ted Grant decided to revive the Justice Society.

Another, his breakout character, was the supernatural hero Deadman, who had debuted in DC's Strange Adventures # 205 ( Nov. 1967 ).

However, to give readers breathing room, these revamps were delayed for a year so that they could be tied into DC's next " big event " storyline, " Legends ".

The Charlton characters were incorporated into DC's main superhero line, starting in the epic Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries of 1985.

The webcomic Sluggy Freelance also falls in this category because while ( and perhaps due to ) it's several earlier strips were of parodic nature, shows a rich multiverse filled with demons, high technology, parallel dimensions ( whose nature varies from alternative realities to more bizarre, law-physics-bending dimensions and spiritual realms ) aliens and magic in a very similar vein of Marvel's and DC's multiverses.

Operated by a private advertising firm, Clear Channel Communications, SmartBike DC's annual operating costs were ostensibly funded by providing Clear Channel with prime advertising space at city bus shelters and other venues along with revenues from user subscription fees and charges.

The setting would be DC's fictional world of Earth-Two, a parallel universe to the mainstream DC continuity established during the 1960s, to explain how DC characters who were well established having adventures in the 1940s could still be in their 30s in contemporary comics.

After the 1985 DC Comics event Crisis on Infinite Earths merged the various parallel worlds DC had established over the decades into a single universe, the older, " Golden Age " versions of DC's mainstream heroes were largely eliminated from continuity.

In the wake of DC's line-wide Crisis on Infinite Earths event, several new book launches were conceptualized, with writer John Ostrander assigned the task of resurrecting the Suicide Squad for an ongoing monthly series.

In 1998, ownership of the Wildcats concepts and characters were sold to DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, as part of DC's acquisition of Lee's company Wildstorm Productions.

The same year, Frank and Smith were hired as the art team on DC's new Supergirl ongoing series, which re-teamed Frank with writer Peter David.

Each character had an individualized logo instead of a standard typeface ; figures were shown in action poses rather than full-body portraits ; character histories and power descriptions were more vague ; and characters from all of DC's publishing domain were included ( such as out-of-continuity series like Camelot 3000 and Watchmen ), not just those from its shared universe ( although the Who's Who Update ' 88 did limit its entries to in-continuity series only ).

Throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s, Andru and Giordano were DC's primary cover artists, providing cover artwork for the Superman titles as well as covers for many of the other comics in the DC line at that time.

Earth-Three and the original Crime Syndicate were destroyed along with the rest of DC's parallel worlds in the 1985 twelve-issue maxi-series Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Many of DC's lettercol headers were designed or redesigned in the 1980s by Klein.

Characters from DC's " mature readers " Vertigo imprint were also not allowed.

By the morning of May 13, most of the positions in the Kohima region had been re-taken by the British and Indian forces ; a few, among them the DC's bungalow, were still holding out against the Dorsets and their supporting tanks.

Many Thanagarians were relocated to Rann, but enmity between the two races resulted in a war, depicted in Rann-Thanagar War-Strange working with Hawkman, Hawkwoman, Kyle Rayner and Kilowog to try to end the conflict -, a six-issue precursor to DC's 2005 to 2006 limited series and DC crossover event, Infinite Crisis.

With the introduction of DC's multiverse system, the continuity of Golden Age Superman stories and the Ultra-Humanite were retroactively placed on Earth-Two, the Earth of DC's Golden Age characters.

The first of these was Earth-Three, in which there were villainous counterparts of DC's heroes as well as heroic counterparts of DC's villains.