Comic books are one of America’s most recognized traditions when it comes to fiction literature. Alongside with Marvel Comics, DC Comics has been one of the most important companies in this subject and its history traces back up to 1936, when it was born after the combination of several other minor companies. The original name is Detective Comics, but it has been traditionally shortened to its initials. It is now a subsidiary for the Warner Brothers Company.
Among DC Comics’s characters we find two of the most important American superheroes: Superman and Batman, those two that are perhaps the ones that come to our minds when we think of comics. And, of course, as any comic book company, DC Comics has produced along its existence an uncountable number of characters, most of them living in the DC Universe all together, although other alternative realities such as Wildstorm Universe exist as well. The Justice League of America was created as a group composed of the most important superheroes in defense of justice and against evils’s intentions in the human world.
While it is believed that this company’s huge success mainly occurred from 1930 to the mid 50’s, the reality is that DC comic books are still impressively sold nowadays and the constant renovation of characters and stories is what gives this company the important place it deserves in the comic industry. Children, young people and even adults of different generations have enjoyed its stories and still do.




