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DC Comics immortals

  • Wonder WomanWonder Woman's creator invented a device crucial to the lie detector.
  • DarkseidDarkseid, the stone-skinned tyrant of the planet Apokolips in DC Comics, has a name that fans have never fully agreed how to say. Mark Evanier spent several years as assistant to the character's creator, Jack Kirby. Evanier says the name…
  • Brainiac (character)Brainiac made his debut in Action Comics #242, cover-dated July 1958, as a bald, green-skinned scientist who shrank Metropolis and sealed it in a bottle. Writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino created him for DC Comics. Few readers that…
  • Doctor ManhattanDoctor Manhattan, the blue-skinned superhuman of the graphic novel Watchmen, wears a mark that nobody assigned to him. Military planners prepared a hat for his public unveiling, decorated with crossed ellipses meant to suggest an atom. Jon…
  • Spectre (DC Comics character)The Spectre first appeared in More Fun Comics #52, dated February 1940, and his debut opens with a murder. A New York detective named Jim Corrigan is on his way to his own engagement party when thugs stuff him into a barrel, fill it with…
  • Doomsday (DC Comics)Doomsday, the DC Comics supervillain created by Dan Jurgens, got his name from a note scribbled on a wall chart. In 1991, the editors and writers of the Superman comics held their annual brainstorming session. Some writers had noticed a…
  • Ra's al GhulRa's al Ghul, the DC Comics supervillain best known as Batman's immortal rival, once admitted that he could not keep track of his own age. In Azrael #6, from July 1995 and written by Dennis O'Neil, he tells the young hero Jean-Paul Valley:…
  • MetamorphoMetamorpho, the DC Comics hero, begins as a mercenary named Rex Mason who takes a job to steal an Egyptian artifact called the Orb of Ra. For a man who sells his skills to the highest bidder, it should be a routine theft. Instead it sends…
  • Solomon Grundy (character)Solomon Grundy is a DC Comics supervillain, and now and then an antihero, who took his name from a 19th-century nursery rhyme. He first lurched onto the page in All-American Comics #61, dated October 1944. Writer Alfred Bester created him…
  • Lobo (character)Lobo is a DC Comics antihero whose name, in his alien tongue, roughly means he who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it. The name is not a boast. He comes from a planet called Czarnia, and he roams the galaxy as a mercenary and…
  • Lucifer (DC Comics)Lucifer Morningstar ruled Hell for more than ten billion years, and the sentence that put him there lasted far longer than his crime. According to the comics, he rebelled against Creation for just three seconds. This version of the Devil…

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