The album became AC / DC's first to break the US Top 100, eventually reaching # 17, and it propelled the band into the top ranks of hard rock acts.

DC's first logo appeared on the April 1940 issues of its titles.

In 1967, Marvel Comics produced the first of 13 issues of Not Brand Echh, which parodied their own superhero titles as well as DC's ; the series owed its inspiration and format to the original " Mad " comic books of a decade earlier.

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.

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 character then appeared in two of DC's " Suggested for Mature Readers " titles.

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

Since the creation of the Vertigo imprint ( itself largely inspired by the success of DC Comics ' increasingly mature titles such as Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Hellblazer, and The Sandman ), DC's horror / occult characters such as Morpheus have drifted progressively further away both from DC continuity and from each other.

She took over editorship of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run from Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein in 1984, and in 1986 " became DC's British liaison ," bringing to DC's pre-Vertigo titles the individuals who would be instrumental in the creation and evolution of Vertigo seven years later.

( 1999 – 2000 ) for DC's imprint Homage ), including relatively little known titles and one-shots such as Skin Graft, The Last One, The Heart of the Beast ( 1994 ), Mobfire, Terminal City, Menz Insana, The Girl Who Would Be Death, Heavy Liquid, Pulp Fantastic and Accelerate.

DC's acquisition of WildStorm allowed the two universes to interact with each other, with the result that characters from each universe would soon make appearances in each other's titles.

In DC's 2011 line-wide relaunch of all of its monthly titles, The New 52, Riddler appears as an inmate at Arkham Asylum in Batman # 1.

Following DC's Flashpoint event, Blue Beetle was one of 52 monthly titles launched in September 2011, again starring Jaime Reyes.

* Curt Swan / George Klein — Worked for decades on DC's Superman titles.

Giordano was given several other established mid-level selling titles, such as Teen Titans, Aquaman and Young Love, but none of DC's major books.

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.

McManus has contributed to titles from a variety of other publishers, including Atomeka Press ( A1 ), Dark Horse ( Cheval Noir ), Exhibit A Press ( Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre ), First Comics ( Grimjack ), Image ( Supreme ), Malibu ( The Man Called A-X ) and DC's Paradox Press ( The Big Book of Freaks ).

During DC's Infinite Crisis event, he teamed with Geoff Johns on a " One Year Later " eight-part story arc ( called Up, Up and Away ) that encompassed both Superman titles.

Starring both Ronnie and his successor, Jason Rusch, it was one of the new titles launched in the wake of DC's Flashpoint crossover event.

The second series began in 1996 was one of four books that made up DC's Weirdoverse group of titles.

Static Shock was cancelled as of issue 8 as part of DC's " Second Wave " of The New 52 titles and replaced by an alternative title.

In 2005 Simone wrote a Villains United limited series spin-off, entitled Secret Six, which led to an ongoing series that debuted in September 2008 and finished with the rest of DC's titles prior to the September 2011 New 52 relaunch.

The Bloodlines crossover event spanned 23 of DC's regular titles and wrapped up in the 2-part mini " Bloodbath ".

J. M. DeMatteis began his comics career on DC's House of Mystery title over a decade before the formation of Vertigo, and later became one of the earliest Vertigo creators thanks in large part to his proposed Touchmark projects.

* Quicksilver ( later DC's Max Mercury )

Ultimately, Warner Communications, DC's parent company, awarded Siegel and Shuster $ 20, 000 a year each for the rest of their lives and guaranteed that all comics, TV episodes, films, and, later, video games starring Superman would be required to carry the credit that Superman was " created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

He would later introduce the first new gay superhero of DC's New 52 relaunch, codenamed Bunker, to the Teen Titans lineup.

The term " comic book death " is usually not applied to characters such as DC's Solomon Grundy and Resurrection Man or Marvel's Mr. Immortal, who have the ability to come back to life as an established character trait or power ; rather it is usually applied when one would normally expect death to be permanent but the character is later resurrected through a plot device not previously established.

Priest would reveal years later than Triumph was partially based on Neal Pozner, DC's Director of Creative Services: " His shtick was: Triumph was always right ... it was what made him so annoying to his fellow heroes.

Until then, the station had been ABC's longest-tenured affiliate not owned by the network ; this distinction later went to Baltimore's WJZ-TV and then to Washington, DC's WJLA when WJZ dropped ABC in 1995.

First appearing in Teen Titans # 45 ( December 1976 ), Karen adopted the Bumblebee identity three issues later, becoming DC's first black female superhero.

Mike D spoke to AC / DC's Malcolm Young personally on the phone when their lawyers refused to clear the sample, and later said that " AC / DC could not get with the sample concept.

The name was later given to a reimagined comic book series for DC's Vertigo imprint.

Before the 1970s, there had been very few non-white superheroes ( the Black Panther and the Falcon being notable exceptions ) but starting in the early 1970s this began to change with the introduction of characters such as Marvel's Luke Cage ( who was the first black superhero to star in his own comic book in 1972, followed a year later by Black Panther in Jungle Action ), Storm, Blade, and DC's Green Lantern John Stewart, Bronze Tiger, Black Lightning, Vixen and Cyborg.

Firefly is among the numerous heroes and villains apparently murdered by the OMACs in the pages of DC's The OMAC Project, although he later appears alive in Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special and Gotham Underground.

The song was first released on AC / DC's eighth studio album For Those About to Rock We Salute You in 1981, and later as a single in 1982.

The song was later included on AC / DC's first soundtrack album, Who Made Who, released in 1986 for the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive.

In Issue 42 of DC's 52, he allowed himself to be murdered by Neron in order to mystically trap him and the couple was later turned into mystery-solving ghosts.

The Federal Express ( later officially known as just the Federal ) was an overnight named passenger train run by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between Washington, DC's Union Station and Boston, Massachusetts's South Station from 1912 to 1971.

He later joined Quality Comics, one of DC's predecessors, where publisher " Busy " Arnold offered $ 25 a page.

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.

Adams concurrently drew covers and stories for The Spectre # 2-5 ( Feb .- Aug. 1968 ), also writing the latter two issues, and became DC's primary cover artist well into the 1970s.

He drew the first ten issues of DC's The Brave and the Bold ( vol.

* Tank Girl-The Odyssey consists of 4 issues released between June and October 1995, published by DC's Vertigo imprint.

* Tank Girl-Apocalypse consists of 4 issues released between November 1995 and February 1996, published by DC's Vertigo imprint.

One of the best examples of this is the 1990s appearance of Chop-Chop in a few issues of DC's Hawkworld series, which naturally enough depict him as an aged, resourceful and respectable man, long rid of his racial stereotype trappings.

In the late 1980s, Grubb wrote four fill-in issues of DC Comics ' licensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons comic book, and wrote all 25 issues of DC's Forgotten Realms series.

A Showcase Presents reprinting of the entire series was slated for September 2007, but has been postponed along with several other Showcase editions due to royalty issues in DC's contracts of the 1980s.

During 1985 and 1986, Gibbons ' artwork graced the pages of several issues of both DC's Who's Who in the DC Universe guidebook and Marvel's The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition.

DC's Big Town comic book ran 50 issues, from January, 1951 to March-April, 1958.

Virtually every issue featured DC's two leading superheroes, Superman and Batman, with the earliest issues also featuring Batman's sidekick, Robin.

In 1999, Morales was made the penciler on DC's on Hourman, penciling 20 of that series 25 issues before it was canceled in 2001.

This was the same character because his story, " The Koth and the Seven ", began in The Comics Magazine and continued in DC's More Fun Comics # 14-17 ( issues also designated as vol.

He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s ( rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O ' Neil )-in addition to writing Detective Comics he pioneered the individual series for Robin, Nightwing ( which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's # 101 ) and Batgirl, as well as creating the team and book Birds of Prey.

In 2004, DC Comics Group Editor — Mass Market Martin Pasko was DC's liaison to Warner Bros. Studios, vetting scripts as well as facilitating studio research by supplying comics and consulting on issues related to DC continuity.

Other notable work includes humor features in five early issues of DC's Action Comics, starting with issue # 5 ( Oct. 1938 ), and the two-page humor piece " Major Bigsbee an ' Botts " in the oft-reprinted Batman # 1 ( Spring 1940 ).