Curated playlist
DC Comics adapted into films
- BatmanIn September 2024, Batman became the first fictional superhero to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
- SupermanThe first Superman was a homeless man tricked into taking a drug. Jerry Siegel wrote him as a villain in 1933.
- Wonder WomanWonder Woman's creator invented a device crucial to the lie detector.
- WatchmenWatchmen begins and ends with a smiley face, spattered with blood on its first page and with hamburger sauce on its last. That small circle sits at the center of a twelve-issue comic book series by three British creators: writer Alan…
- Justice LeagueThe Justice League, also called the Justice League of America, made its debut in The Brave and the Bold #28, dated March 1960. Its premise was unusual. Superheroes who already headlined their own comic books would agree to share a single…
- Green LanternGreen Lantern is not one hero but a long succession of them, all published by DC Comics, and each wears a ring that answers to the mind of its owner. The ring draws on imagination, fearlessness and what the stories call the electromagnetic…
- Shazam (DC Comics)Shazam, the comic book hero also called Captain Marvel, headlined an issue, Whiz Comics #2, that sold over 500,000 copies. The hero at its center is a boy who becomes a towering adult by speaking a single word. Yet this same character…
- Batman: The Long HalloweenBatman: The Long Halloween begins with a dead man, a jack-o-lantern, an untraceable pistol and a baby bottle nipple used as a crude silencer. Those objects are the signature of a murderer who kills on holidays, one victim each month. The…
- The Dark Knight ReturnsThe Dark Knight Returns begins with a Batman who no longer exists. Bruce Wayne is 55 years old, a decade into retirement, and struggling with alcoholism in a bleak version of 1986. This is a four-issue comic book miniseries from that same…
- Swamp ThingSwamp Thing, the mound of living vegetation that guards nature in DC Comics, got his name because his creator never gave him one. Writer Len Wein later recalled: "I didn't have a title for it, so I kept referring to it as 'that swamp thing…