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Top 5 Facts About DC Comics


when universes collide when reality
shatter it could only mean that DC
Comics is at it again welcome to
watchmojo.com down the five most
interesting facts about DC Comics in the
hopes of expanding your knowledge of the
publishing house that burst a Kryptonian
legend number 5 DC sued Rihanna over
robbing beautiful
born as Robin Rihanna Fenty and with no
Batman in sight
Rihanna decided to follow a career of
singing rather than crime-fighting but
now that she’s trying to use the name
Robin for her new brand of clothing DC
is trying to protect the Dark Knight’s
sidekick from entering the fashion world
DC also took exception to a Spanish
soccer team’s logo that is strikingly
similar to Batman’s we’ve been using the
logo since 1939 said DC but we’ve been
using it for 20 years longer than that
retorted the football club and the team
City Valencia was all like whatever DC
we’ve been rockin the bat since the 13th
century the team backed down anyway and
reverted to their previous bat design
more recently DC won their case against
mark towel who is reproducing Batmobile
like replicas so what do you think does
it come in black not only did the court
rule in favor of DC but also found that
quote the Batmobile was protectable as a
sculptural work under the US Copyright
Act vengeance is the night
number four that turkey Batman upset
Batman turkey Hussein Kalkan mayor of
Batman Turkey tried to sue Warner Bros
and Batman Begins director Christopher
Nolan over the use of the town’s name
good luck
the mayor attempted to collect royalties
but he also tried to blame a rash of
female suicides in the town on the
massive success of the film
what about escalation there’s collision
these suicides were supposedly quote on
our suicides and the mayor’s insinuation
was that they were too ashamed that
their towns name was being used in such
a manner and so he sought royalties all
you care about is money
it’s too bad DC didn’t sue him for
trying to be a cheesy Batman villain
somebody should get the bat-signal ready
number three Marvel icon Stan Lee wrote
a series for DC eggshell shield 2001
series just imagine allowed Stan Lee
creator of many of Marvel’s most famous
characters to reimagine famous DC
characters Superman Batman Wonder Woman
and others got redone as wildly
different versions most complete with
classical iterative Stan Lee names like
Johnny Jordan and Wayne Williams he
reboots Wonder Woman as Maria Mendoza a
Peruvian activist who finds an ancient
staff that gives her the powers of the
Incan Sun God
Lee’s version of the flash Mary Maxwell
gets her SuperSpeed not from a lightning
bolt or noxious fumes but from an
injection of hummingbird DNA oh and that
man looks more like a bat number two
kryptonite originated on the radio
did you say kryptonite The Adventures of
Superman was a serialized radio drama
that aired on afternoon radio from 1940
to 1950 one starring bud Collyer as
Superman though his identity much like
Superman’s remained a secret until 1946
the show was on three to five times a
week
every week so to give Collier the
occasional break the producers devised a
novel solution kryptonite designed to
incapacitate the unstoppable hero it
allowed the supporting actors to take
the spotlight for a bit why are you here
there must be a reason for you to be
here yes I’m here to fight for truth and
justice and the American Way
while Superman creator Jerry Siegel had
written a story involving a Kryptonite
like mineral a few years prior it was
never published another milestone on the
show was on March 2nd 1945 when Superman
met Batman and Robin for the first time
ever him Clark Kent Batman what are you
doing here
hey someone should make them meet up
again Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent I
love it
I love bringing people together how are
we number one Superman’s first comic is
super expensive in order to make money
in that game you have to buy for a
little shelter luck the most valued
comic book in history is the very first
introduction of Superman which sold for
3.2 million dollars at auction that’s a
hell of a lot but this is the book
credited with creating the superhero
genre and there are only about 50 to 100
copies of the book in existence and only
two of them have been given a 9.0 out of
10 by CGC Comics certifying their
pristine condition people are willing to
pay that extra money for a certified
book because they know what they’re
getting is what forget Nicolas Cage once
bought the first 9.0 comic in 1995
before it was stolen from his home in
2000 that’s not the only piece of
Superman history that’s sold well at
auction the original check of 130
dollars that DC paid to the creators of
Superman sold for an impressive $160,000
well DC fans will you side with robin or
robin Rhianna
and how much would you pay for a copy of
Action Comics number one form or
multiverse shattering top tens and
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