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DC Comics American superheroes

  • BatmanIn September 2024, Batman became the first fictional superhero to receive a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
  • Dick GraysonDick Grayson, the DC Comics hero who first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940, has changed more often than almost any character in superhero comics. He began as a child performer in a circus family. Since then he has carried at…
  • SupermanThe first Superman was a homeless man tricked into taking a drug. Jerry Siegel wrote him as a villain in 1933.
  • Cassandra CainCassandra Cain is a DC Comics superheroine who first appeared in Batman #567, published in July 1999. Writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott are generally credited with inventing her. They gave her a trait that is rare among comic…
  • Annie JanuaryAnnie January, the superheroine known as Starlight in the comic series The Boys, was supposed to be a joke. Her creator Garth Ennis says so himself: "Annie started out as a joke." He made the series with Darick Robertson. In the story she…
  • Robin (character)Robin, the young partner of Batman in DC Comics, once had his fate decided by a telephone poll. In 1988, DC invited readers to call a 1-900 number and choose whether the second Robin, Jason Todd, should die. The count came in at 5,343…
  • 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…
  • Teen TitansThe Teen Titans are a team of teenage superheroes published by DC Comics, and many of them began as sidekicks to the stars of the Justice League. In February 1978, the final panel of Teen Titans issue 53 showed the heroes, now in their…
  • Green ArrowGreen Arrow first stepped onto a comic book page in More Fun Comics No. 73, which was released on the 19th of September 1941 and carried a cover date of November 1941. Another hero debuted in the very same issue: Aquaman. By day, the…
  • Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)Supergirl, whose Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-El, first appeared in Action Comics #252 in May 1959. Writer Otto Binder created her, and artist Al Plastino designed her and drew that debut. Her story begins on Argo City, a fragment of…
  • Peacemaker (character)Peacemaker is a comic book antihero whose name promises the opposite of what he delivers. When Christopher Smith debuted in Fightin' 5 #40 in November 1966, he was a pacifist willing to do anything to bring peace to the world. Writer Joe…

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