#alan siegel

[kulturado]

The Story: Nothing Is Better Than This: The Oral History of ‘Stop Making Sense’

The Writer: Alan Siegel

(illustration: Michael Iver Jacobsen)

[fandomtransmandom]

Monorail! Monorail! MONORAIL!!!🧡

O’Brien didn’t expect the episode to live on like it has. “If you could have told 28-year-old Conan, ‘I know you’re driving a Ford Taurus, and it’s really cold in your office, oddly, on the Fox lot, and it’s raining out and you’re here on a Saturday, and then you drive to a Chinese restaurant on the way home and eat alone at a table and continue to scratch away at your legal pad, [that] someday you’ll be performing a piece of this episode at the Hollywood Bowl,’” he says. “If you told me that, I still, as I’m saying this to you—my mind can’t contain those two things.”

[flanaganfilm]

Hi Mike, how was Tribeca?

It was fantastic.

For those who don't know, I was lucky enough to be invited to sit on the US Narrative Feature Jury at this year's Tribeca Festival. I just got back yesterday from ten days in Manhattan.

I found the whole thing to be absolutely rejuvenating.

Our category had five jurors: myself, Zoey Deutsch, Stephanie Hsu, Tommy Oliver, and Ramin Bahrani.

Kate was also on a jury - she was on the International Feature Jury (which included Brendan Fraser and Zazie Beets) so that meant we spent the week seeing different movies. We'd pass each other on our way to different screenings, sometimes in the lobby of the theater, and then meet up for dinner or a party and get to tell each other about the awesome movies we saw that day.

It was overwhelming to start with. At the Opening Night reception, we met Robert DeNiro, and we saw Martin Scorcese and Matt Damon (we were way too timid to introduce ourselves). I did manage to introduce myself to Kenneth Lonergan, who has made some of my all-time favorite movies (You Can Count on Me is one of the best movies I've ever seen), and the great Chazz Palminteri (I got to tell him how much I absolute adore A Bronx Tale). I also spent a fair amount of time chatting with Peter Coyote, who was incredibly kind and funny. We chatted a lot about Ken Burns.

After that, we went to the Opening Night film, a terrific documentary called Kiss the Future. We walked the red carpet (something I'm never quite comfortable with, but luckily Kate is a natural) and we saw the movie with a packed house. It was a beautiful film and really started everything off on an amazing foot.

And then the judging started. I got to watch all of the movies in my category in the theater, with audiences. A car would pick me up and take me to the screening. At my busiest, I saw three movies in one day, but it was usually two.

I made it a point not to know anything about the movies before I saw them - sometimes I went in without knowing the title. And I can't overstate how amazing it was to see these independent films with an audience, in a theater, instead of streaming. Having spent the better part of the last five years watching this primarily at home, I was shocked at how inspiring and energizing it was to sit in a theater with a crowd over, and over, and over again. I've never seen this many movies in a theater in such a short time, and I LOVED it.

I didn't only see movies that were in my category, though. I also made sure I saw other films at the festival that I wasn't judging - including Downtown Owl, the directorial debut of my friends Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe.

I made a point to go to the premiere of Suitable Flesh, starring the amazing Barbara Crampton and Heather Graham, and produced by my old friends Joe Wicker and Morgan Peter Brown from the Absentia Days.

And it wasn't all movies, either - I also got to moderate a chat with the brilliant Sam Lake about his upcoming Alan Wake 2 release. Sam was a joy to spend time with, and we had a lot to talk about.

And my friend and colleague Justina Ireland traveled up to NY to moderate a Master Class where a theater full of people listened to me ramble about horror movies for an hour.

(With Justina Ireland and Johnathan Penner - Penner ran the Escape from Tribeca program, and it was his idea to bring me to the festival)

And then, just before I left, I met up with some friends to see a Broadway show. Karen Gillan and Willa Fitzgerald joined Kate and I to see Grey House.

My experience at Tribeca was fantastic. It was such an amazing celebration of art and cinema, and I can't wait to go back. I spent a lot of it feeling overwhelmed, and feeling like I didn't quite deserve my seat at the table (imposter syndrome is just one of the staples of being a filmmaker, isn't it?) but I'm so glad I went.

[oldshowbiz]

Death of a Gun Fighter (1969)

[cantsayidont]

May 1961. The revelation in 1964 that the Brainiac was actually an android created an additional potential complication for Supergirl's love life. When she joined the Legion of Super-Heroes in 1961, she had met and dated Brainiac 5, who had explained that he was the villain's direct descendant:

The Brainiac retcon in SUPERMAN #167 rationalized this discrepancy by saying that the original android Brainiac briefly had a "son" as part of his disguise, and that Brainiac 5's actual ancestor was the human (well, Coluan) boy forced into the role of "Brainiac II":

Brainiac II didn't get a name in this brief initial appearance, but a 1965 "Meet the Legionnaires" text item in ADVENTURE COMICS #335 gave him the name "Vril Dox" and explained:

Having learned many of Brainiac's scientific secrets, he ran away; then, while his villainous foster-father went off on his espionage mission, which was to occupy many years, Vril used his knowledge to build a brain stimulator which raised his mind to a twelfth-level effector. Now he was smarter than the tyrannous computers and led his people in a revolt against the machines. Honored by the people he had freed, Vril Dox, alias Brainiac II, lived a long, happy life. Long, indeed—for the green-skinned inhabitants of that world have a life-span far greater than that of an Earthman. When he grew up, Vril married and became a father. He found that his brain-stimulator had affected his genes, so that his children inherited his twelfth-level-effector brain. His son Pran Dox, was nicknamed Brainiac 3. He in turn was the father of Kajz Dox (Brainiac 5), whose son, Querl Dox, became Brainiac 5 of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Thus it is that Brainiac 5 has a twelfth-level-effector mind, like the original Brainiac. With a mind twice as powerful as ordinary humans, Brainiac 5 can solve the most difficult problems in seconds.

This text item isn't credited, but it MIGHT have been written by E. Nelson Bridwell, who became Mort Weisinger's assistant editor in 1965. In any event, the name "Vril" was almost certainly borrowed from the 1871 Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel THE COMING RACE, where it refers to an "all-permeating liquid" that works kind of like the Force in STAR WARS. (That novel also fueled all manner of conspiracy theory occultism, and in 1988 was incorporated into DC continuity in Roy Thomas's YOUNG ALL-STARS. A long story.)

The circumstances of Brainiac II's eventual uprising were never directly shown in pre-Crisis comics, but the first three issues of L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 depict his overthrow of what are now called the Computer Tyrants of Colu. The L.E.G.I.O.N. and R.E.B.E.L.S. series also established that Vril Dox was not a nice guy:

The Legion of Super-Heroes villain Pulsar Stargrave, first seen in SUPERBOY #224, claimed at times to be Brainiac 5's father, but he also later claimed to be the original Brainiac, which later developments of the latter character made unlikely. The post-Crisis L.E.G.I.O.N. series reveals that Stargrave was neither, but was in fact an android body housing the minds of the Computer Tyrants of Colu whom Vril Dox and his comrades had previously overthrown. Whether that was true in pre-Crisis continuity is anybody's guess.

[wanderingmind867]

I prefer the golden age Hawkman. Honestly, I prefer most of DC's golden age heroes. Alan Scott is cooler than Hal Jordan, Jay Garrick is cooler than Barry Allen, even Al Pratt is a bit more interesting than Ray Palmer to me. And let's not get started on Superman and Wonder Woman. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were the best people for Superman, while William Moulton Marston was the best person to write for Wonder Woman (in my opinion).

The Justice Society and DC's golden age stuff just seems so much better than their silver age stuff. And that's something I can't budge on.

[txttletale]

I know copyright and intellectual property is bullshit, but how do I tell that to someone who's convinced that it protects small artists?

tell them about bill mantlo, creator of rocket racoon, whose brother has to start gofundmes to pay his medical bills while marvel makes millions off that character's merch. or to gary friedrich, creator of ghost rider, who sued marvel for using the character at a point where it should have returned to him, lost, and was then counter-sued for selling merch including sketches for fans at conventions. or alan moore, who vowed to never work with DC again after he was screwed out of owning watchmen. or the archetypal examples of this phenomenon, jack kirby (co-creator of iron man, captain america, ant-man, the hulk, and a fuckton more characters) who of course was also screwed out of any ownership, or jerry siegel and joe shuster, who spent decades fighting over the copyright to superman, a character they created and sold for $130 as desperate struggling artists and who then went on to make millions for DC comics.

or if they're not a comics fan, why not talk to them about robert kurvitz, head writer of disco elysium, who through an extremely suspect purchase lost the rights to the world of elysium, representing his life's creative work. or to hideo kojima, who was forced out of konami, keeping absolutely no rights to his iconic metal gear franchise, and had his demo for Silent Hills made into fucking vaporware that nobody can download anymore!

or about the time that disney used threats of legal action to put a stop to such nefarious infringement of their copright as 'being painted on the walls of a daycare' or 'being put on a child's gravestone'.

the thing about copyright is that it has to be enforced in court. a 'small artist' -- even ones who are independently successful and considerably wealthy -- can simply not afford to fight a protracted legal battle while paying top legal talent. disney and marvel and any other big media company, however, can fight as many legal battles as they want for as long and have the legal fees be a drop in the bucket. companies that can afford lawyers and can afford to, if it really comes down to it, lose a lawsuit -- that is, companies with millions of dollars to spare -- are simply above copyright law. this is not a bug--this is a feature. this is the system working as designed.

[diyeipetea]

The Manhattan Transfer Fifty (Concord / Craft Recordings; 2022) Por Juan F. Trillo [Grabación de jazz]

The Manhattan Transfer Fifty (Concord / Craft Recordings; 2022) Por Juan F. Trillo [Grabación de jazz]

Poco se puede decir, a estas alturas, sobre el cuarteto The Manhattan Transfer que no se haya dicho ya. Y tampoco es que la agrupación vocal neoyorkina vaya a sorprendernos con algo nuevo; hace tiempo que esa etapa quedó atrás. Pero no es ese el propósito de Fifty, un álbum que, como su propio título sugiere, lo que pretende es conmemorar sus bodas de oro con el mundo de la música. Cincuenta…

[radiofreederry]

Favorite and least favorite comic writers?

Favorites: Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Greg Rucka, Gail Simone, Kelly Thompson, Marv Wolfman, Joshua Williamson, Jonathan Hickman, G. Willow Wilson, Kurt Busiek, Ram V, Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, Jerry Siegel, Gardner Fox, Chris Claremont, Dwayne McDuffie, Keith Giffen, Peter David, George Perez, Phil Jimenez, Elliot S! Maggin, Denny O'Neil, Ryan North

Least favorites: Tom Taylor, Rob Liefeld, Chuck Austen, Mark Millar, Garth Ennis, Frank Miller (outside of Daredevil)

Borderlines (they all have works I really love and works I really hate): Brian Michael Bendis, Geoff Johns, Tom King, Warren Ellis, Jeph Loeb, Chuck Dixon

Special case (I like a good amount of his work, but he is literally a convicted pedophile): Gerard Jones

[vertigoartgore]

Top 30 Movies that I discovered in 2023 (but not released in 2023) :

Pandora and The Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, UK, 1951)

Summertime (David Lean, USA/UK, 1955)

Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, USA, 1956)

Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, USA, 1958)

Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, USA, 1964)

Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, Japan, 1967)

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock, USA, 1971)

The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, USA, 1971)

The effect of Gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds (Paul Newman, USA, 1972)

Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver, USA, 1979)

Being There (Hal Ashby, USA, 1979)

El Sur (Víctor Erice, Spain, 1983)

El Norte (Gregory Nava, UK/USA, 1983)

Vigil (Vincent Ward, New Zealand, 1984)

Choose Me (Alan Rudolph, USA, 1984)

Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch, USA, 1985)

Anguish (Bigas Luna, Espagne, 1987)

The Vanishing (George Sluizer, France/Netherlands,1988)

Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., USA, 1989)

Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia, 1991) 

Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Japan, 1993)

Suture (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, USA, 1993)

What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan, USA, 1994)

Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, USA, 1995)

August in the Water (Sogo Ishii, Japan, 1995)

Shall We Dance ? (Masayuki Suo, Japan, 1996)

Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong, 1997)

Bullets Over Summer (Wilson Yip, Hong-Kong, 1999)

To the Left of the Father (Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazil, 2001)

Dead End (Jean-Baptiste Andrea & Fabrice Capepa, France/USA, 2003)

[best-animated-short-tourney]

Accepted Shorts List

This list will be updated as shorts are selected, and will become a masterdoc for entries.

Piper, dir. Alan Barillaro (Available on Disney+)

Dissolve, dir. Carina Heller

Sharp Teeth, dir. David James Armsby

Tar Boy, dir. James Lee

Moses of Prosthesis, dir. Gagame

Quasi at the Quackadero, dir. Sally Cruikshank

Welcome to Hell, dir. Erica Wester

Friendly Shadow, dir. David James Armsby

The Acorn Princess, dir. Kris Yim

Drawn to You, dir. Eleanor Davitt

Scattershot, dir. Jade Smania

Ramshackle, dir. Zi Chen

Paperman, dir. John Kahrs (Available on Disney+, Amazon, iTunes, Google Play)

Loop, dir. Erica Milsom (Available on Disney+)

Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou, dir. Michael Bidinger and Michelle Kwon

Kitbull, dir. Rosana Sullivan

Out, dir. Steven Clay Hunter

In a Heartbeat, dir. Beth David and Esteban Bravo

Ice Merchants, dir. João Gonzalez

Diamond Jack, dir. Rachel Kim

Lackadaisy (Pilot), dir. Fable Siegel

The Cat Came Back, dir. Cordell Barker

Fuelled, dir. Michelle Hao and Fawn Chan

The Man Who Planted Trees, dir. Frédéric Back

My Friends Take the Night Bus, dir. Sofi

Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, dir. Nick Park

The Naked King -What a Beautiful Life-, dir. rapparu

Coming Out, dir. Cressa Maeve Beer

Dear Girl, dir. Choi Ji-eun

Jibaro, dir. Alberto Mielgo (Available on Netflix, Love Death + Robots S3E9)

The Witness, dir. Alberto Mielgo (Available on Netflix, Love Death + Robots S1E3)

The Legend of Pipi, dir. Julia Schoel and Birgit Uhlig

The Cameraman's Revenge, dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz

What's Opera, Doc? dir. Chuck Jones

The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall, dir. Chuck Jones

Kitty Kornered, dir. Bob Clampett

A Wild Hare, dir. Tex Avery

Everything Will Be OK, dir. Don Hertzfeldt

Yankee Doodle Daffy, dir. Friz Freleng

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, dir. Chuck Jones

Long Gone Gulch, dir. Tara Billenger and Zach Bellissimo

I Love to Singa, dir. Tex Avery

Opal, dir. Jack Stauber

Scaredy Cat, dir. Chuck Jones

I Should Leave This Mall I Think, dir. Noodle

Porky's Duck Hunt, dir. Tex Avery

Bambi Meets Godzilla, dir. Marv Newland

Porky in Wackyland, dir. Bob Clampett

Rabbit Seasoning, dir. Chuck Jones

One Froggy Evening, dir. Chuck Jones

Don vs. Raph, dir. Jhonen Vasquez

Cat City, dir. Victoria Vincent

Roller Coaster Rabbit, dir. Rob Minkoff

Tummy Trouble, dir. Rob Minkoff

Trail Mix-Up, dir. Barry Cook

Blood Bound, dir. Lyly Hoang

Ciao, Alberto, dir. McKenna Harris (Available on Disney+)

Blackfly, dir. Christopher Hinton

Charlie the Unicorn: The Grand Finale, dir. Jason Steele

Free Apple, dir. Ian Worthington

Bigtop Burger Season 1, dir. Ian Worthington

There's a Man in the Woods, dir. Jacob Streilein

Llamas with Hats: The Series, dir. Jason Steele

Welcome to my Life, dir. Elizabeth Ito

Duck Amuck, dir. Chuck Jones

We Can't Live Without Cosmos, dir. Konstantin Bronzit

Geri's Game, dir. Jan Pinkava

Have to change the format cause tumblr has a limit to text in a single list

68. Snow-White, dir. Dave Fleischer

69. DAICON IV Opening Animation, dir. Hiroyuki Yamaga

70. Rooty Toot Toot, dir. John Hubley

71. SHOP: A Pop Opera, dir. Jack Stauber

72. Rabbit of Seville, dir. Chuck Jones

73. The Cat Concerto, dir. Joseph Barbera and William Hanna

74. My Little Goat, dir. Tomoki Misato

75. Asparagus, dir. Suzan Pitt (Available on the Criterion Channel)

76. Puparia, dir. Shingo Tamagawa

77. The Cybernetic Grandma, dir. Jiří Trnka

78. Captain Yajima, dir. Ian Worthington

79. Agoraphobia, dir. Victoria Vincent

80. Donald in Mathmagic Land, dir. Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark and Joshua Meador

81. Joy Street, dir. Suzan Pitt (Available on the Criterion Channel)

82. The Old Man and The Sea, dir. Aleksandr Petrov

83. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, dir. Aleksandr Petrov

84. Vincent, dir. Tim Burton

85. World of Tomorrow, dir. Don Hertzfeldt

86. World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, dir. Don Hertzfeldt (pay per view of Vimeo)

87. The Magic Portal, dir. Lindsay Fleay

88. The Golden Chain, dir. Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Claytan Daniels (available on the Criterion Channel)

89. Black Soul, dir. Martine Chartrand

90. Hedgehog in the Fog, dir. Yuri Norstein

91. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House, dir. Windsor McCay

92. Around is Around, dir. Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren

93. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, dir. Dave Fleischer

94. Historia Naturae (Suita), dir. Jan Svankmajer

95. Still Lost I Guess, Here's a Tunnel, dir. Dario Alva

96. Kapaemahu, dir. Joe Wilson, Dean Hamer and Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

97. Long-Haired Hare, dir. Chuck Jones

98. Muto, dir. Blu

99. Windy Day, dir. John and Faith Hubley

100. Bully for Bugs, dir. Chuck Jones

101. The Haunted Hotel, dir. J. Stuart Blackton

102. Destino, dir. Dominique Monfery (Available on Disney+)

103. Fantasy, dir. Vince Collins

104. To Beep or Not To Beep, dir. Chuck Jones

105. Pixillation, dir. Lillian Schwartz

106. Goodbye Jerome!, dir. Chloé Farr, Gabrielle Selnet and Adam Sillard (Available on the Criterion Channel)

107. Betty Boop's Halloween Party, dir. Dave Fleischer

108. Jumping, dir. Osamu Tezuka

109. Baby Fingers, dir. Adrian Dalen

110. On Your Mark, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[oliveroctavius]

To reply to this without cluttering up someone else's reblogs:

I DEFINITELY have my issues with Alan Moore, but that quote has been taken widely out of context to fuel the anger machine. In context, this is commentary on the modern mass-media superhero movie, specifically how far it is from its working-class Jewish roots:

Today’s franchised übermenschen, aimed at a supposedly adult audience, seem to be serving some kind of different function, and fulfilling different needs. [...] The superheroes themselves – largely written and drawn by creators who have never stood up for their own rights against the companies that employ them, much less the rights of a Jack Kirby or Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster – would seem to be largely employed as cowardice compensators, perhaps a bit like the handgun on the nightstand. I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race.

This is a legitimate criticism of popular superheroes, even early on. An example relevant to this quote: Alan Moore grew up with Marvelman, Britain's homegrown 1950s stand-in for Captain Marvel. Some pretty visible choices were made about who could be superhuman in their version of this story.

Not obvious from this image: Freddy Freeman (left image, in blue) was the one Marvel Family member with a Jewish co-creator (Mac Raboy). He was a disabled boy with a very personal vendetta against the Nazis who had targeted him and his grandfather. All this was left out of his (fully abled) Marvelman counterpart. But even Captain Marvel was a version of Superman made marketable by filing down the anti-establishment edges! (Unlike early Supes, Cap would never talk back to a cop.) All three publishers used racial caricatures in their stories.

All this buries the lede: Mick Anglo, creator of the Marvelman Family, was also Jewish. I don't know why he made the choices he did.

The initial image in the post you commented on is from "Superman is Jewish? How comic book superheroes came to serve truth, justice, and the Jewish-American way" by Harry Brod. It's available on archive.org and while it's ultimately a celebration of Jewish contributions to comics, it touches on a lot of these points: the popular re-capture of the underdog's dreams of righteous violence, the "de-Jewification" of superheroes in the modern movie imagination, and the idea that not all art created by [identity] people will actually express that identity, especially when writing into a different dominant culture.

Alan Moore can be dismissive of the Jewish histories to superheroism, but I don't want to throw out his argument--white supremacy has sunk its hooks deep into the genre's imagery since Siegel and Shuster put pen to paper.

[ask21771]

DC Comics Timeline

1934

National Allied Publications (the first incarnation of DC) is founded by Major Malcom Wheeler Nicolson

1935

New Fun Comics #1 is published it is the first comic book to contain all original material

1937

Detective Comics #1 is published it is the comic book that would eventually give DC its company name

1938

Action Comics #1 is introduced and with it the first true superhero Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, not only is Superman is introduced but his secret identity Clark Kent is as well also his love interest Lois Lane

1939

Detective Comics #27 introduces the second most iconic superhero Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger along with his secret identity Bruce Wayne as well as his longtime ally Commissioner Jim Gordon

Superman gets his own comic book series in his first issue we learn about his adoptive parents

Detective Comics #33 reveals Batman's tragic origin story

1940

The original Flash Jay Garrick premieres in Flash Comics #1

Captain Marvel premieres in Whiz Comics #2 at this point he was not owned by DC and was considered a rival for Superman

The Spectre first appears in More Fun Comics #52

Superman's most iconic villain Lex Luthor first appears in Action Comics #23

Batman's iconic sidekick Robin appears in Detective Comics #38 as the first superhero sidekick

Batman gets his own comic book series the first issue introduces 2 of his most iconic villains Joker and Catwoman 

The original Green Lantern Alan Scott first appears in All American comics #16

The original Atom AL Pratt first appears in All America Comics #19

The Justice Society of America appears as the original superteam for the first time in All Star Comics #3

1941

Green Arrow and Aquaman appear for the first time in More Fun Comics #73

1942

Wonder Woman debuts in Sensation Comics #1 as the first and most iconic superheroine created by William Moulton Marston 

1943

Batman's iconic butler Alfred appears in Batman #16

1945

Superman's adventures as Superboy are shown for the first time in More Fun Comics #101

1946

Black Canary appears for the first time in Flash Comics #86

1949

Superboy gets his own comic

1952

The Phantom Stranger premieres in the first issue of his own comic

The first Superman TV show premieres starring George Reeves

1954

Superman and Batman work together for the first time in Worlds Finest Comics #71

1955

Superman's dog Krypto first appears in Adventure Comics #210

The Martian Manhunter first appears in Detective Comics #225

1956

The second version of The Flash Barry Allen is introduced in Showcase #4

1958

The iconic teen superhero team from the future The Legion of Superheroes are introduced in Adventure Comics #247

Superman's iconic alien nemesis Braniac is introduced in Action Comics #242 as well as the bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor

1959

Superman's cousin Kara aka Supergir first appears in Action Comics #252

The second version of Green Lantern Hal Jordan appears in Showcase #22

1960

The Justice League first appears in The Brave and The Bold #28 they will go on to become DC's most iconic superhero team and one of the most famous superhero teams period 

The second Green Lantern Hal Jordan gets his own comic book series 

1961

In Flash #123 The first and second Flashes meet for the first time revealing that all the golden age adventures and stories took place in an alternative universe (later dubbed Earth 2) thus introducing the DC Multiverse for the first time

1962

Aquaman gets his own comic book series for the first time

1963

The Doom Patrol first appear in My Greatest Adventure #80

The Justice League and The Justice Society team up for the first time during The Crisis of.  Earth 1/Earth 2 in Justice League of America #21 and #22 it is the first multiverse story to have the word crisis in the title

1964

The first version of the Teen Titans premieres in The Brave and The Bold #54 it consisted of Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad, Speedy and Wonder Girl would later join

The villainous Crime Syndicate from Earth 3 first appear in Justice League of America #29

The First Superhero wedding happens in Aquaman #18 between Aquaman and Mera

1966

The Teen Titans get their first comic book

The first Batman TV series premiers Starring Adam west as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin

The Flash Barry Allen and Iris West get married in The Flash #165

1967

Barbra Gordon becomes Batgirl in Detective Comics #359

1970

In Green Lantern/Green Arrow #76 the two heroes begin traveling across the country dealing with the social issues of the time

In Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133  the iconic villain Darkseid first appears although it's brief

1971

The New Gods of the Fourth World first appear in Forever People #1, Mister Miracle #1 and New Gods #1 all helmed by Jack Kirby, to this day the New Gods remain one of the most important parts of The DC Universe 

Ra's al Ghul arguably Batman's most powerful and resourceful recurring nemesis first appears in Batman #232 as does Talia whom Batman has an on again off again relationship with

Green Arrow's sidekick is shockingly revealed to be a heroin addict in Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85-86

1973

Shazam #1 sees Captain Marvel become a DC property for the first time

1976

The Earth 2 version of Supergirl known as Power Girl first appears in All Star Comics #58

DC and their arch rival Marvel crossover for the first time in Superman vs The Amazing Spiderman #1

Wonder Woman's first TV show premieres starring Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

1978

The first Superman movie comes out starring Christopher Reeves as Superman and Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor

1979

DC's first miniseries World of Krypton is published 

The tale of how the Justice Society originally disbanded is told in Adventure Comics #466

1980

Batman's first miniseries The untold Legend of Batman is published 

A new series called The New Teen Titans is published, created by George Perez and Marv Wolfman the series introduced a new incarnation composed of Robin, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, ex Doom Patrol member Beast Boy as well as new characters Cyborg, Starfire and Raven, it is this version of the team that made it iconic

Superman 2 hits theaters with the same actors reprising their roles as well as newcomers like Terrence Stamp playing General Zod

1981

Detective Comics reaches issue #500

1982

The iconic Legion of Superheroes story The Great Darkness Saga begins in issue #290

1983

Batman forms his own superhero team in Batman and The Outsiders #1

1984

The iconic Teen Titans storyline Judas Contract begins in Tales of the Teen Titans #42 In it Dick Grayson retires from being Robin and becomes Nightwing 

1985

In celebration of their 50th and in an attempt to simplify what they felt had become an over complicated mythos, DC published the legendary 12 issue crossover event Crisis on infinite earths,  created by George Perez and Marv Wolfman in the story the multiverse was being destoryed by the merciless Anti Monitor and in order to save what was left of creation all the heroes and villains were pulled together from across time and space by his opposite The Monitor, in the end a single universe emerged with a totally revamped history and with only four survivors of the multiverse (Superman and Lois of Earth 2, Alexander Luthor of Earth 3, and Superboy of Earth Prime) to live in a nameless nexus dimension,  many well established characters were killed during the event most notably Supergirl who then had her whole history erased, and Barry Allen The Flash whose nephew Wally West having been Kid Flash up until that point took up the mantle, this is considered one of the most important events in DC history as not only was it the first time everything was changed about their universe, not only was it the first the multiverse played a major role in what was going on, but it was the first real time a story was so massive that it was connected to nearly every other title that the company was publishing at the time 

1986

Frank Miller seminal and iconic story Batman: The Dark Knight Returns premieres set 50 years in the future this darker version of Batman forever changed the publics view of the hero

Alan Moore's 12 issue series Watchmen is published showing more mature and complex characters and issues it is considered by many to be the greatest comic book of all time

Alan Moore's Superman story Whatever Happened to The Man of Tomorrow takes place in Superman #423 and Action Comics #583 showing how Superman's story would have ended if not for Crisis on infinite earths 

Man of Steel #1 is published delving into Superman's post Crisis origins

The first post Crisis crossover Legends premieres in this story the evil new god Godfrey under orders from Darkseid tries to turn the population against all Superheroes 

1987

Batman #404 kicks off Frank Miller's Batman Year One storyline that delves into the Dark Knights post Crisis origins

The post Crisis version of Wonder Woman appears in Wonder Woman #1

A new version of The Justice League appears in Justice League #1 this incarnation will later be known as the Justice League International 

The Suicide Squad appears for the first time in the first issue of their own series

The post Crisis version of the second Robin Jason Todd first appears in Batman #408

1988

The crossover event Millennium happens in which the robotic manhunters try to stop the Guardians of the universe and the Zamarons from evolving a selected group of individuals 

The grim and iconic story The Killing Joke is published in which Joker shoots and paralyzes 

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The crossover event Invasion happens in which the metagene is first introduced 

The second Robin Jason Todd is killed by the Joker in the historic Death in the Family storyline after his death is voted on by the fans

1989

Neil Gaiman's seminal and iconic Sandman premieres, focusing on the nigh omnipotent Dream of The Endless,  the series has things like imaginative lands and characters, appearances of other DC characters (some revamped for the series) and beings from classic religions, mythologies and folklore

Grant Morrison's surreal Batman graphic novel Batman: Arkham Asylum premieres 

Batman #442 kicks off the lonely place of dying storyline that introduces Tim Darke and makes him the third Robin

Tim Burton's Batman hits theaters starring Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as Joker

1991

The first Robin miniseries premieres 

The crossover event Armageddon 2001 takes place, in this story as dystopia future is ruled by a superhero turned dictator known as Monarch, the hero known as Waverider goes back in time to prevent this future, many potential futures are shown in this event

The crossover event War of Gods happens in which the Greek and Roman gods make war with each other

1992

Superman seemingly dies in the Death of Superman storyline in Superman #75 the issue would become one of the best selling comic books of all time

Tim Burton's second Batman movie comes out, Michael Keaton plays Batman once again Michelle Pififer plays Catwoman and Danny Devito plays Penguin 

The legendary and iconic Batman the animated series comes out completely changing how superhero cartoons are done as well as being the first cartoon of the DC animated universe

Harley Quinn first appears in the Batman episode Jokers Favor she will later go on to become one of DC's biggest characters 

1993

The villainous Bane breaks Batman's back during the Knigntfall story in Batman #492 temporarily putting him out of action

The Reign of The Supermen story kicks off in The Adventures of Superman #500 introducing the new hero Steel, a new Superboy who's a clone of Superman,  the mysterious Eradicator and the villainous Cyborg Superman 

Superman officially returns in Superman #82 to stop Cyborg and the alien warlord Mongul in the process however Green Lanterns hometown of Coast City is destroyed

DC launches the imprint Vertigo the imprint would focus on mature and original stories

The Batman animated series based movie Mask of The Phantasm briefly hits theaters before coming to video it is considered by many to be the best animated Batman movie ever

1994

Driven by the loss of his city Green Lantern Hal Jordan goes on the warpath killing many of his fellow Green Lanterns, The Guardians of the universe as well as absorbing the power of the central Green Lantern power battery he then takes the name Parallax, the last surviving guardian Ganthet chooses Kyle Rayner as the new Green Lantern in the Emerald Twilight story arc starting in Green Lantern #48

Bruce Wayne returns as Batman in Batman #509

The crossover event Zero Hour commences in which Parllax and Extant (formerly Monarch) try to remake the universe by the end of the event several changes are made to the continuity including a complete reboot of the Legion of Superheroes 

1995

The Crossover event Underworld Unleashed happens in which the devil Neron convinces many villains (and even some of the heroes) into giving him their souls in exchange for their hearts desires 

Batman Forever hits theaters this time directed by Joel Schumacher the film has a lighter tone and stars Val Kilmer as Batman,  Chris O'Donnell as Robin Jim Carrey as The Riddler and Tommy Lee Joans as Two Face

1996

The limited series DC vs Marvel comes out in the series the characters of both universes are pitted against each other by a pair of cosmic beings known as The Brothers

The iconic miniseries Kingdom Come is released written by Mark Waid and beautifully illustrated by Alex Ross the story takes place in another universe where Superman and the other heroes have retired and a new generation of violent amoral heroes has replaced them

The crossover event Final Night happens in which the sun goes out by the end Parallax gives his life to reignite it

Superman and Lois are finally married in Superman The Wedding Album

Superman The Animated Series as the second show set in the DCAU

1997

Grant Morrison pens a new incarnation of the Justice League composed of 7 members in JLA #1

The heroes powers are altered by the godwave in the crossover event Genesis 

The second Joel Schumacher Batman movie Batman and Robin comes out Chris O'Donnell plays Robin again while this time Batman is played by George Clooney also Batgirl is played by Alicia Silverstone Poison Ivy is played by Uma Thurman and Mister Freeze is played by Arnold Schwarzenegger,  it is considered one of the worst comic book movies of all time

1998

The Justice League's post Crisis origin is told in JLA Year One

A new superteam is introduced in Young Justice #1 composed of Robin, Superboy and the speedster Impulse the team will later grow to include other members such as the second Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark 

Grant Morrison pens the event DC One Million that takes place partially in the present and partially in the 853rd century

1999

The Kingdom Come sequel known as The Kingdom comes out and introduces the on again off again concept known as Hypertime

The original Titans reunite for a new series

A new Justice Society series begins written by Geoff Johns 

The crossover event Day of Judgement is published in which the fallen angel Asmodel takes control of The Spectre and brings literal Hell to Earth, by the end of the even the spirit of Hal Jordan becomes the new Spectre

The third DCAU animated series Batman Beyond premieres,  taking place in 2039 the show introduces Terry McGinnis as the new Batman being mentored by an elderly and retired Bruce Wayne

2000

The fourth DCAU show Static Shock premieres it is the first show to star a black superhero 

2001

Lex Luthor becomes president in Superman: Lex 2000

The crossover Our Worlds at War takes place in which the galaxy fights against the primordial entity Imperiex, by the end several heroes are killed most notably Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta 

The Superman prequel show Smallville premieres 

The fifth DCAU series Justice League premieres 

2002

The beloved Batman storyline Hush begins in Batman #608 in which a mysterious new villain enacts an elaborate plan to take Batman down during the story Batman reveals his true identity to Catwoman

2003

The 3 issue miniseries Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day is published in which the arrival of a android from the future causes a series of events that results in the death of the original Wonder Girl Donna Troy after which both teams disband

A new Teen Titans series written by Geoff Johns premieres introducing a new team consisting of Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, Robin, Superboy, Cassie Sandsmark's Wonder Girl and Impulse (who later becomes the second Kid Flash)

The last DC/Marvel crossover story JLA/Avengers is published in which both teams work together to stop the universe destroying mad scientist Krona

A new Superman/Batman series is published, in the first arc Lex Luthor is stripped of his presidency and disappears after trying to use a kryptonite asteroid to turn the population against Superman

The first Teen Titans animated series with a team consisting of Raven Robin Starfire Cyborg and Beast Boy it is one of the few superhero shows to be influenced by anime

2004

A post Crisis version of Kara Zor El is finally introduced in Superman/Batman #8 she becomes the new Supergirl

The seven issue event series Identity Crisis is published in which the Elongated Man's wife Sue is murdered during the investigation several Dark secrets about the Justice League are revealed

The 4 issue series Green Lantern Rebirth is published in which Hal Jordan breaks free of the Spectre and is resurrected to stop Parallax who is revealed to be a yellow fear causing entity that possessed Jordan and manipulated him into becoming a villain at the end of the series the Guardians of the universe return and start to rebuild the Green Lantern Corps

The sixth and final DCAU show Justice League Unlimited premiers

A new Batman cartoon simply called The Batman premieres unlike its predecessor it does not take place in the dcau

2005

a new version. Of the Red Hood is introduced in Batman it is later revealed to be a resurrected Jason Todd

Grant Morrison's meta series Seven Soldiers is published, bookended by two one shots and consisting of 7 miniseries 7 heroes must fight against the Invasion of the sheeda

The Infinite Crisis storyline begins in the one shot Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1 in which Blue Beetle investigates several mysterious happenings in the DCU at the end he's murdered by Maxwell Lord who is revealed to be the leader of Checkmate and wants to kill all super powered individuals

In the Countdown spinoff miniseries Day of Vengance a group of mystical heroes gather to stop a rogue Spectre from destroying all magic

In the Countdown spinoff miniseries Rann/Thanagar war nearly all space faring heroes are embroiled in a war between the two planets 

DC Special The Return of Donna Troy sees the resurrection of the titular heroine as well as the unveiling of DC's new logo

In the Countdown tie in miniseries Villains United a group of villains known as The Six are gathered to fight against Luthor's society of villains

In the Countdown tie in miniseries OMAC Project Maxwell Lord tries to use Batman's secret satellite known as Brother Eye to kill all super powered beings 

In a tie in to Omac Lord gets control of Superman and Wonder Woman ends up having to kill Lord to free him

The events of the year culminate in the seven issue event series Infinite Crisis, acting as the first true sequel to Crisis on infinite earths the survivors of the original multiverse return out of disgust for what the world and its heroes have become later it is revealed that Alexander Luthor and Superboy Prime are revealed to be the ones behind all the events started in Countdown and briefly bring back the multiverse in an attempt to create the perfect reality before being stopped by the heroes like the crisis before it many established characters are killed most notably Superboy by the end Superboy Prime is the last survivor of the original multiverse and is now a full villain having been imprisoned by the Green Lantern Corps 

Batman Begins hits theaters directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale as Batman 

2006

Grant Morrison pens the 12 issue series All Star Superman many consider it the best Superman story ever made

All DC titles jump one year from the events of Infinite Crisis 

The cosmic Monitor race is introduced in the one shot Brave New World

DC's first year long weekly series 52 is published, written by Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid and Greg Rucka as it fillis in the gap between Infinite Crisis and the one year jump the series tells several stories focused on lesser known heroes at the end it is revealed that the events of Infinite Crisis caused a new multiverse of 52 universes to be born

Grant Morrison begins their run on Batman starting with Batman #655 in the first story arc Batman and Talia's son Damian is introduced 

2007

The six issue miniseries Amazons Attack is published in which Wonder Woman's mother Hippolyta is resurrected 

The Flash Bart Allen (formerly Impulse and then Kid Flash) is killed in the last issue of his series

DC's second year long weekly series Countdown to Final Crisis is published like 52 it features several stories this time however it explores recent facets of DC's cosmology such as the Monitor race and the new multiverse

The Sinestro Corps is introduced in the one-shot Green Lantern: Sinestro Corp Special written by Geoff Johns, powered by yellow colored fear the Corps is lead by Hal Jordan's nemesis Sinestro and a resurrected Anti Monitor, as well a joined by Parallax and Superboy Prime, The Sinestro  and Green Lantern Corps fight in a war that spans all Green Lantern titles at the end the emotional spectrum is revealed and the blackest night is foretold 

In the Countdown tie in Death of the New Gods the celestial race is being slaughtered by a mysterious assailant 

DC starts releasing direct to home animated movies aimed at an older audience the first one is Superman: Doomsday 

2008

The Batman event Batman RIP begins in Batman #676 written by Grant Morrison Batman and his allies fight against the mysterious yet malicious Dr. Hurt

The seven issue event series Final Crisis is published, written by Grant Morrison, the story sees the multiverse assaulted by Darkseid and Mandrak The Dark Monitor, in this event both Martian Manhunter and Batman are killed (though at the end it's revealed Batman was just sent back in time) however Barry Allen The second Flash is resurrected 

Grant Morrison pens the two issue Final Crisis tie in Superman Beyond in which the multiverse is further explored and the origin of the Monitor race is revealed introducing Monitor Mind the Overvoid is introduced

Geoff Johns pens the five issue miniseries Final Crisis Legion of 3 world's in which Superman helps The Legion of Superheroes fight against the United force of their enemies led by Superboy Prime in the end Bart Allen is  resurrected as Kid Flash and Superboy is resurrected as well

Christopher Nolan's second Batman film The Dark Knight hits theaters Christian Bale reprises his role as Batman, Aaron Eckhart plays Two Face and Heath Ledger gives a legendary performance as Joker winning a posthumous Oscar in the process, the film by many to be the best Superhero movie of all time

Batman The Brave and The Bold premieres unlike previous Batman cartoons this one is lighter and takes inspiration from the silver age of comics

Animated movies released this year: Justice League: The New Frontier, Batman: Gotham Knight

2009

Geoff Johns pens the six issue Flash Rebirth series fully reintegrating Barry Allen back into the DCU the series makes major changes to both Barry's history and the origins of the Speed Force (the source of all speedsters powers)

Grant Morrison continues their Batman run with the Batman and Robin series having Dick Grayson as the new Batman and Damian as the new Robin

Geoff Johns pens the 8 issue series Blackest Night in which the heroes of Earth as well as the seven colored Corps of the emotional spectrum take on the Black Lantern Corps, lead by the dark cosmic entity Nekron and composed of the reanimated corpses of fallen heroes and villains by the end of the event 12 characters are resurrected 

Geoff Johns pens the miniseries Superman Secret Origin in which Superman's post infinite Crisis beginnings are explored

A movie adaptation  of Watchmen hits theaters this year directed by Zack Snyder 

Animated movies released this year: Wonder Woman, Green Lantern: First Flight, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

2010

The weekly 24 issue miniseries Brightest Day is published written by Geoff Johns The series follows several of those who were resurrected during Blackest Night as well as their purpose

Grant Morrison's miniseries Return of Bruce Wayne comes out in which Bruce travels through time finally arriving in the present and becoming Batman once again

Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated #1  comes out in which Batman forms a global team to fight the terrorist organization Leviathan 

Animated movies released this year: Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Batman: Under the Red Hood, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

2011

-The first live action Green Lantern film is released in theaters it stars Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern

-In response to declining sales and interest DC uses the mini series Flashpoint to reboot it’s continuity, the new continuity is called The New 52 

-A new Justice League series begins written by Geoff Johns the first arc explores The New 52 origin of the team and makes Cyborg a founding member 

A new Batman series begins, written by Scott Snyder the first arc sees Batman go against the mysterious Court of Owls

-The animated series Young Justice (based on the comic of the same name)  premiers

-Animated movies released this year: All Star Superman, Green Lantern-Emerald Knights, Batman Year One

2012

-Green Lantern the animated series premiers and is aired on Saturday mornings with Young Justice and one minute shorts starring various DC characters on Cartoon Network, this is referred to as DC Nation

-DC releases a new company logo

-DC releases Before Watchmen a group of miniseries prequels to the iconic 1986 story 

-DC creates a series of ongoing comics that are first available digitally 

-Christopher Nolan's final Batman Film The Dark Knight Rises premieres with Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Tom Hardy as Bane

-The New 52 version of Earth 2 is introduced in its own series

-Simon Baz becomes the first Muslim Green Lantern

-Arrow premieres on the CW starring Stephen Amell as Green Arrow

-Animated movies released this year: Justice league:Doom, Superman vs The Elite, The Dark Knight Returns Part One

2013

-75th anniversary of Superman

-Teen Titans Go (a comedic parody of the 2003 series) premiers

-Beware The Batman premieres, it is the first Batman animated series to be done in cgi

-Man of Steel premieres starring Henry Cavil as Superman, it is the first movie to be set in the DC cinematic universe

-The New 52 has its first line wide crossover entitled Forever Evil written by Geoff Johns in which  the heroes and villains of the DCU fight against The Crime Syndicate of Earth 3

-Animated movies released this year: Dark Knight Returns part 2, Superman Unbound, Flashpoint paradox (after this movie, nearly all animated movies take place in the same continuity)

2014

-75th anniversary of Batman

-Batman Eternal, a year long weekly series reintegrates Stephanie Brown into The New 52

-Futures End, a year long weekly series integrates Terry McGinnis into The New 52

-The year long weekly series Earth 2: Worlds End sees Darkseid go to war with Earth 2 

-The highly anticipated miniseries Multiversity premiers exploring The DC Multiverse written by Grant Morrison 

-In the aftermath of Forever Evil Lex Luthor not only joins the Justice league for the first time but discovers Batman is Bruce Wayne

-Jessica Cruz first appears in Justice league, she will become the first Hispanic Green Lantern

-The Flash premieres on the CW starring Grant Gustin as The Flash, it  takes place in the same continuity as Arrow

-Constantine premieres on NBC

-Gotham premieres on Fox

-Animated movies released this year: Jla Adventures: Trapped in Time, Justice league War, Son of Batman, Batman: Assault on Arkham

2015

-The month long event Convergence takes place, it not only reintegrates the pre-New 52 Superman and Lois back into the DCU, but also revives every previously destroyed universe and continuity

-Superman and Lois' son Jonathan is introduced in Superman:Lois and Clark

-DCs two most iconic cosmic villains Darkseid and The Anti-Monitor fight in the Justice League story Darkseid War

-A new line of ongoing series that reimagine various Hanna Barbera characters is released

-DC moves it’s publishing office from New York to Burbank

-The 24 issue weeklong series Batman and Robin reintegrates Cassandra Cain in to the New 52 

-A new Supergirl show premieres on CBS it will later be moved to CW and will become part of the Arrowverse continuity

-The show Izombie (based on the vertigo comic) premiers on the cw

-The first incarnation of DC Superhero girls premieres as a YouTube series

-Animated movies released this year: Justice league throne of Atlantis, Batman VS Robin, Batman Unlimited Animal Instincts, Justice league Gods and monsters, Batman unlimited monster mayhem

2016

-DC initiates it's third major reboot this time called DC Rebirth which aims to merge the pre and post Flashpoint continuties  at the end of the one shot (written by Geoff Johns)  that starts it all it is revealed that the new 52 was caused by Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan, a host of new and revamped titles are also introduced 

-DC gets a new logo

-Legends of Tomorrow premieres as the fourth show to be set in the Arrowverse continuity 

-The show Lucifer premieres (very loosely based on the vertigo title) on Fox (later moves to Netflix)

-Preacher (based on the Vertigo title) premiers on AMC

-Justice League Action premieres on Cartoon Network 

-Batman and Superman meet for the first time on the big screen in Dawn for Justice

-Suicide Squad gets its first major motion picture

-Animated movies released this year: Batman The Killing Joke, Batman Return of The Caped Crusaders, DC Superhero girls Superhero high, Justice league vs Teen Titans, DC Superhero girls Hero of the year, Batman unlimited Mechs VS Mutants

2017

Dark Nights Metal event premieres, written by Scott Snyder this event introduces the dark multiverse as well as the demon Barbatos who dwells there also introduced is The Batman Who Laughs a dark multiverse being that's a combination of Batman and the Joker it is also the only crossover event to have Dream of the Endless as one of the characters 

The 12 issue bookend to DC Rebirth Doomsday Clock premieres,  written by Geoff Johns it is the first crossover between the DC and Watchmen universes and effectively completes the reboot it also introduces a new explanation for the DCU  called The metaverse

Both Wonder Woman and The Justice League make their silver screen debuts this year

Animated movies released this year: Justice League Dark, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, DC Superhero girls intergalactic games, Batman and Harley Quinn, Batman VS Two Face

2018

A new Justice League series comes out written by Scott Snyder it deals with the aftermath  of Metal as well as virtually revamping DC's cosmology the most notable new character to appear is the nigh omnipotent Perpetua 

The critically panned  miniseries Heroes in Crisis premieres in which the heroes try to solve the murders of a bunch of other heroes

The DC Imprints Black Label and Sandman Universe begin this year, Sandman Universe features series starring characters from the beloved Neil Gaiman series while Black Label tells out of continuity stories aimed towards adults

Black Lightning premieres on the CW as the latest show to be part of the Arrowverse 

Titans premieres on streaming as both the first live action Teen Titans show and the first one aimed at adults

The first Aquaman movie premieres in theaters 

Teen Titans Go to the movies premieres as the first Teen Titans movie to premiere in theaters 

Batman Ninja premieres as the first DC animated movie to be made in Japan

Animated movies released this year: Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, The Death of Superman, DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis

2019

Iconic Batman character Alfred Pennyworth is killed by the villain Bane in Batman #77

Batwoman premiers on the CW as part of the Arrowverse 

Watchmen premieres on HBO as a sequel to the comic

Young Justice returns on streaming 

The very first show centered on the Doom Patrol premieres on streaming 

A new DC Superhero girls show premieres on Cartoon Network this one set in a different universe than the previous incarnation 

Harley Quinn gets her own show on streaming it is the first DC Animated series aimed towards adults 

Shazam's first movie comes out this year

Joker comes out this year and wins 2 Oscars 

The original animated Teen Titans return in the movie Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans 

The Arrowverse is rebooted in the massive CW crossover Crisis on infinite earths 

Animated movies released this year: Reign of the Supermen, Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: Hush, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines

2020

The sequel to Dark Nights Metal premieres this year entitled Dark Nights Death Metal, in this event the heroes are pitted against Perpetua and The Batman Who Laughs (now called The Darkest Knight), at the end all past events are declared canon and DC is given an omniverse for the first time in its history

Long running DC imprint Vertigo is ended

Batman loses his fortune in The Joker War story

Stargirl premieres on streaming (later moved to the CW)

Harley Quinn and The Birds of prey costar in their first movie

Wonder Woman gets her second movie Wonder Woman 1984

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War premiers as the final move set in the shared universe started in Flashpoint paradox by the end of the movie the continuity is rebooted 

Superman: Man of Tomorrow premieres as the first movie set in the new continuity 

Animated movies released this year: Superman: Red Son, Batman: Death in the Family

2021

At the beginning of the year a two month line wide event called Future State happens showing possible futures of the DCU

In the aftermath of Death Metal a new publishing initiative is started called Infinite Frontier is started introducing a bunch of new and revamped titles it is also the name of a six issue miniseries written Josh Williamson that acts as the first part of a three act meta story

Superman and Lois premiers on the CW

An extended 4 hour cut of the Justice League movie called the Snyder Cut premieres on streaming it is considered to be much better than the theatrical cut

The 5 issue miniseries Justice League Incarnate premieres as the second act of the meta story it  also acts as pesudo sequel to Multiversity it is also written by Josh Williamson

The second Suicide Squad movie premiers in theaters it is considered to be much better than the first one

Animated movies released this year: Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Justice Society: World War II, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two, Injustice

2022

DC's parent company Warner Media merges with Discovery to create Warner Discovery

Dark Crisis premieres not only as the third and final act in the meta story written by Joshua Willamson  but as the first major crossover event to have the word crisis in the title in 14 years, in this story the Justice League is thought dead and the remaining heroes must fight against Pariah and The Great Darkness, by the end of the story the infinite pre crisis on infinite earths multiverse is restored and the Justice League disassembles promoting the Titans to the premiere super team, Amanda Waller also begins working with a mysterious organization known as The Light in a plan to kill all super powered beings on earth

A sequel to Flashpoint entitled Flashpoint Beyond premieres organizing all of DC's cosmological structures (including the omniverse) into one unified whole called The Divine Continuum which is categorized nto 2 parts (space and time) by the end of the miniseries 13 lost original  golden age characters are introduced to the DC Universe

The New Golden age one shot comes out picking up where Flashpoint Beyond left off and doing things such as giving the back story of all but one of the 13 new characters,  introducing a new version of the Helena Wayne Huntress, and setting up the first Justice Society title in over a decade as well as a new Stargirl miniseries (as well as others)

A new Peacemaker show premieres as a Spin off of the last Suicide Squad movie

Neil Gaiman's Sandman gets an adaptation on Netflix

The preschool show Batwheels premieres on Cartoon Network

The Batman premieres in theaters with Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader

Black Adam gets his own theatrical movie

The animated DC League of Super pets hits theaters

DC Superhero girls ends it runs with a crossover film entitled Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse

Animated movies released this year: Catwoman: Hunted, Green Lantern: Beware My Power, Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

2023

In the aftermath of a fight between Batman, Robin and a demon Lazaruz chemicals rain down on the earth affecting everyone especially those with super powers this is the Lazarus Planet event

The Dawn of DC publishing event happens unlike previous publishing events new titles will be rolled out across the year instead of all at once

The Titans start operating out of Bludhaven in a new series

The 2 month line wide event Knight Terrors happens in which the new villain Insomnia traps nearly everyone in their nightmares

My Adventures with Superman premieres on Adult Swim as well as streaming

The Flash gets his own theatrically released movie 

Blue Beetle gets his first movie that also acts as the first movie to star a Latino character

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DC also announced DC Finest, a new line of comprehensive collections of the most in-demand periods, genres, and characters from across DC history. Scheduled to launch in November, these affordably priced, large-size paperback collections start at $34.99, and will take full advantage of DC’s extensive backlist and appeal to casual and completist fans alike. Focusing on characters and storytelling genres instead of creators or prior series will give casual fans the chance to discover full continuities for their favorite characters, while offering completist readers an affordable option to build out their ultimate collection of stories based on their favorite DC Super Hero or genre.

Character-focused collections will spotlight multiple iterations of fan-favorite DC Super Heroes throughout the decades; for example, a “Robin” collection may include volumes featuring Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, or Jason Todd, depending on chronology, while a “Green Lantern” collection may include classic stories featuring Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Kyle Rayner, Alan Scott, or other fan-favorite ring slingers. Genre fans can curate collections of their favorite tales from specific genres, which may include science fiction, romance, war, westerns, horror, and other genres; many of these volumes will feature material reprinted for the first time, by some of comics’ greatest storytellers. The first wave of DC Finest collections include: DC Finest – The Flash: The Human Thunderbolt: Collects classic adventures of Barry Allen, the Silver Age Flash, by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, including 1956’s iconic Showcase #4. Also includes Silver Age Flash stories that include the first appearances of famous Flash rogues, including Captain Cold, Mirror Master, and Gorilla Grodd. DC Finest – Batman: Year One & Two: Collects the Dark Knight’s adventures following the game-changing crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths, including Batman: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli and Batman: Year Two by Mike W. Barr and Todd McFarlane, plus more mid-to-late-’80s Batman stories from Barr, Max Allan Collins, Norm Breyfogle, and others. DC Finest – Wonder Woman: Origins & Omens: This collection spotlights fan-favorite writer Gail Simone’s run on Wonder Woman, starting with 2007’s “The Circle,” with artist Terry Dodson, plus celebrated story arcs “Ends of the Earth,” “Rise of the Olympian,” and “Warkiller,” featuring art by Aaron Lopresti. DC Finest – Catwoman: Life Lines: Selina Kyle steps out of Batman’s shadow and becomes a protagonist in her own right in this collection featuring Catwoman’s 1989 solo debut by Mindy Newell and J.J. Birch, Peter Milligan and Tom Grindberg’s Catwoman Defiant from 1992, and the first year of DC’s Catwoman ongoing series, by writer Jo Duffy and artist Jim Balent. DC Finest – Superman: The Coming of Superman: Features the Man of Steel’s earliest and most iconic adventures, starting with Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s groundbreaking Action Comics #1. This collection includes Action Comics #1-25, Superman #1-5, and New York World’s Fair Comics #1.

It only took them a decade but DC finally came out with their equivalency to the Marvel Epic Collection. Marvel Masterworks is met with DC Archive Editions, Marvel Essential is met with Showcase Presents, Marvel Premiere Classic is met with DC Comics Classics Library, DC didn't even change the name for their own Omnibus line. They admittedly have the Absolute Edition over Marvel. DC only since 2016 or so has been putting in the work to get a ton of stuff back in print or in print for the first time, we JUST got our first Silver Age Superman Omnibus. I could see myself picking up a few of DC's Finest, we'll see.

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Today's double feature of NAKED CITY & CRY OF THE CITY plays twice today, 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre. Afternoon screenings introduced by Alan K. Rode and evening screenings by Eddie Muller.  There will be a special guest as well. Full festival information and tickets available at www.NoirCity.com

NAKED CITY; 1:00, 7:00 PM

This landmark crime movie, producer Mark Hellinger's hardboiled tribute to his beloved Big Apple, peels away all the stylistic melodramatics of noir to present Hollywood's first true policier. Scrupulously researched writing by Malvin Wald and vivid location photography by William Daniels (an Oscar® winner) combined to make this one of the most influential Hollywood films of all time, the template for thousands of cop shows to come. With Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Don Taylor, Dorothy Hart, and a very scary Ted  de Corsia.

Originally released March 4, 1948. Universal–International, 96 minutes. Screenplay by Albert Maltz and Malvin Wald. Produced by Mark Hellinger. Directed by Jules Dassin.

CRY OF THE CITY; 3:00, 9:00 PM

Perhaps the most perfectly realized, thematically and stylistically, of all Siodmak's noir films. Victor Mature is the lawman and Richard Conte the fugitive crook he pursues across Manhattan with tragic results. Shot entirely on location, Siodmak skips the semi-documentary vogue of the day, creating instead an Expressionistic urban landscape ideally suited to this mythic mid-20th-century tale of good and evil. Co-starring Shelley Winters, Debra Paget, Fred Clark, and a scary Hope Emerson in her startling screen debut.

Originally released September 29, 1948. 20th Century-Fox, 95 minutes. Screenplay by Richard Murphy and Ben Hecht, based on The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth. Produced by Sol. C. Siegel. Directed by Robert Siodmak.