DC Comics

1934-0-0

Yes

United States

[b]DC Comics, Inc.[/b] is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of [b]DC Entertainment[/b], a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by item:109723[Time Warner]. DC Comics is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in American comic books, and produces material featuring numerous well-known heroic characters, including item:108363[Batman], item:108358[Superman], Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, Shazam, Hawkman and Green Arrow. The fictional DC universe also features teams such as the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, and the Teen Titans, and well-known villains such as Joker, Lex Luthor, Catwoman, Darkseid, Ra's al Ghul, Deathstroke, Sinestro, Black Adam and Brainiac. The company has also published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta and many titles under their alternative imprints Vertigo and America's Best Comics. Random House distributes DC Comics' books to the bookstore market, while Diamond Comic Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market. DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor item:110646[Marvel Comics] (owned by item:109882[The Walt Disney Company], Time Warner's main rival since 2009) together shared over 80% of the American comic book market in 2008.