The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The DC Comics character Boodikka, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, was named after Boudica.

* Colonial ( PRR train ), a Pennsylvania Railroad ran between Washington, DC and New York City, and was last operated in 1973 by Amtrak.

Number One Observatory Circle, located on the northeast grounds of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, was built in 1893 for its superintendent.

Prior to the formation of the Dallas Cowboys, there was not an NFL team south of Washington DC.

Mark was living in Washington, DC, working for National Public Radio.

When he was 12 years old he also discovered and enjoyed the Superman titles by DC Comics of the editor Mort Weisinger period, drawn mostly by his favorite Superman artists Curt Swan and Kurt Schaffenberger.

The name " Superman " was added to " A DC Publication ," effectively acknowledging both Superman and Batman.

In December 1973, this logo was modified with the addition of the words " The Line of DC Super-Stars " and the star motif that would continue in later logos.

On May 8, 2005, a new logo was unveiled, debuting on DC titles in June 2005 with DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy # 1 and the rest of the titles the following week.

In addition to comics, it was designed for DC properties in other media, which was used for movies since Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and the TV series Smallville, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman, as well as for collectibles and other merchandise.

The logo was designed by Josh Beatman of Brainchild Studios and DC executive Richard Bruning.

The police claimed that such scenes were " damaging " to their reputation and added that the character DC Deanne Cunningham was " irritatingly inaccurate ".

It was republished as graphic novel by the Wildstorm branch of DC Comics.

* The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, sometimes referred to as the South Capitol Street Bridge, just south of the US Capitol in Washington DC, was built in 1950 and named in his honor.

* In 1962, his home in Anacostia ( Washington, DC ) became part of the National Park System, and in 1988 was designated the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

He was a minister several times for the Democrazia Cristiana party ( DC ), notably during his stay at Viminale ( Ministry for internal affairs ) where he re-structured the Italian police, civil protection and secret services.

Less than two years after its U. S release, King Kong vs. Godzilla was paid homage to by DC Comics, where the King Kong-like Titano battles the Godzilla-like Flame Dragon on the set of a monster movie.

The main event in the First Republic in the sixties was the inclusion of the Socialist party in the government, after the reducing edge of the Christian Democracy ( DC ) had forced them to accept this alliance ; attempts to incorporate the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ) in the Tambroni government led to riots, and were short-lived.

In this latter Lewis was sometimes featured with Superman, Batman, and various other DC heroes and villains.

Hoover was a devoted Freemason, being raised a Master Mason on 9 November 1920, in Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC, just two months before his 26th birthday.

In 1977 he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

His second wife, Anna Dmitrevna Lyubimova ( 1913-2010 ), who married him in 1944, bore him two daughters, Yelena ( who worked at the Institute of Party History ) and Vera ( who worked at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC ) in the United States, and a son, Vladimir, who was a Goskino editorialist.

The first AVO was put on sale in 1923, and although it was initially a DC, many of its features remained almost unaltered through to the last Model 8.

At the time of the recording, Cadena had moved to rhythm guitar ( a position he had initially intended to take when Reyes was still in the band ) and 20-year-old Washington, DC expatriate Henry Rollins had become the band's new lead singer weeks before the sessions occurred.

A tri-level synchronising pulse is a signal that initially goes from 0 volts DC to a negative voltage, then a positive voltage, before returning to zero volts DC again.

John Constantine was reintroduced into the DC Universe in 2011, initially in the Brightest Day crossover event title Search for the Swamp Thing, and in the ongoing The New 52 title Justice League Dark.

Electrification was initially 600 volts DC – third rail, later changed to 11, 000 volts AC – overhead catenary, when electrification of PRR's mainline was eventually extended to Washington, D. C. in the early 1930s.

The series became a comic book ( initially published by All-American Publications and later by DC Comics, Dell Comics and Harvey Comics ), as well as cartoons, films, merchandising and reprints.

In accordance with established NORAD procedures, the F-16s were initially directed to head northeast to avoid some of the most heavily traveled commercial airline routes rather than to fly directly to the Washington, DC, area.

Dio initially wanted to replace Powell with Simon Wright, from AC / DC and his own band, but Butler and Iommi rejected him.

It initially developed a route structure serving Washington DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore while establishing a new headquarters for Allegheny Commuter at Salisbury, Maryland in 1968.

DC Comics rebooted Teen Titans with issue # 1 ( cover dated November 2011 ) with a roster of Red Robin, Kid Flash, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Solstice, and two new characters, one of whom was initially named Bugg, now called ' Skitter '.

* In DC Comics, the villain ( and sometimes hero ) Plastique is initially a Québécois freedom fighter, who resorts to acts of terrorism.

Lowe's demonstration of flying a balloon over Washington, DC, and transmitting a telegraph message to the ground was enough to have him introduced to the commanders of the Topographical Engineers ; initially it was thought balloons could be used for preparing better maps.

The NMAI was initially housed in lower Manhattan at the Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House, which was refurbished for this purpose and remains an exhibition site ; its building on the Mall in Washington, DC opened in 2004.

alt = Original Children's Supermart location in Washington, DC is now a bar. Charles Lazarus initially started Children's Supermart ( which would evolve into Toys " R " Us ) in Washington, DC during the post-war baby boom era in 1948 as a baby-furniture retailer.

Bolland recalls that he and DC " talked quite a bit about how long it would take me to do the series ," and because the series was inked by a third party ( initially by Bruce Patterson, then by Terry Austin ), he started off " churning the pages out with great enthusiasm.

The Brown Dots were initially formed in late 1944, when second tenor Ivory " Deek " Watson ( b. 18 July 1909, Mounds, Illinois-d. 4 November 1969, Washington, DC ) left the Ink Spots.

Along with Captain Comet, he was one of the few DC Comics heroes initially identified as a mutant.

Omen reveals him / her self in Teen Titans # 14 ( November 1997 ); Wally West | Flash saw Raven ( comics ) | Raven, Nightwing saw Phantasm ( comics ) | Phantasm, Arsenal ( DC Comics ) | Arsenal saw Lilith ( the true one ) and Garth ( comics ) | Tempest saw Mal DuncanShe took the name Omen, and became part of the Teen Titans team led by a teenaged Atom and founded by Loren Jupiter ; initially, the team did not realize that Omen was Lilith.

The series was initially a 96 page quarterly anthology, featuring various DC characters-always including Superman and Batman-in separate stories.

Apokolips and its bright counterpart, New Genesis, were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund the world of the " Old Gods " ( initially implied to be the gods of classical mythology, though versions of these characters have since been revealed to still exist in the DC Universe ).

New Genesis and its dark counterpart Apokolips were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund, the world of the " Old Gods " ( initially implied to be the gods of classical mythology, though versions of these characters have since been revealed to still exist in the DC Universe ).

Kirby subsequently left DC, but the series continued, initially written by Conway and drawn by Chic Stone.