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When did DC Comics become ‘dark’?

Actually, DC didn’t so much go dark as they decided to move away from the childish fantasy wish fulfillment material that was the staple for them in the silver age.The earliest sign of this was when Batman stopped smiling so much in the late 60s, and Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams had a lot to do with that. Then the same creative team tackled truly mature subject matter in the pages of Green Lantern/Green Arrow. It wasn’t really the start of a trend, but it showed DC that serious material could sell comics.In 1985, after many of DC’s titles had successfully upgraded their methods, the company decided to go all in and revise their universe for more mature readers. They eliminated many of the silliest elements from continuity, depowered Superman, killed off the Flash, Wonder Woman, and Supergirl, and merged their entire multiverse into a single reality.None of this was really dark. Heroes die all the time. It’s usually not permanent and rarely lasts more than a year. But Flash remained dead for nearly 30 years, which is as close as it gets to permanent in the comic book world. So you can’t accuse DC of not sticking to their guns this time, even though characters like Supergirl, Wonder Woman, and Krypto the Superdog didn’t remain nonexistent nearly as long as Barry Allen stayed dead.Don’t believe those that tell you DC didn’t go dark, though. They did. They just didn’t do it with the DCU’s superhero set.In the 80s, as DC was already moving toward more advanced methods of storytelling and the mood was growing dark for the political landscape and a real fear for the future was taking root in the heart of the American public, Alan Moore, writer of The Killing Joke, Watchmen, and more, brought to Swamp Thing a darkness that had never been seen in the title- and possibly in comics themselves- before. It wasn’t just dark, though. It was deep too, introducing concepts so mind-bending it started a new trend for me: putting certain material at the bottom of my reading stack for later. I needed to be in a certain mood to dive into this stuff. It was so different that DC went and created a new label for what they were calling more mature stories: Vertigo Comics.After that all bets were off. There was seemingly no limit to how dark comics could get, and sometimes this spilled over into the more mainstream superhero stuff. Which is why people now say that DC ‘went dark’.

Is DC comics killing Marvel in sales?

Yes, but only recenetly, also only looking at numbers won’t tell the entire story.DC fall off in comic book sales after New 52 and Marvel took over as the dominant seller for years. Marvel started experimenting with their stuff a lot, like hiring hordes of hardcore feminist writers which made a lot of people less interested in Marvel comic books, by the time Marvel’s sales started dropping DC came out with a boom, they created Rebirth which fixed a lot of what New 52 and Convergence created.People have liked Rebirth a lot thus far and Marvel isn’t losing any of their Feminist/SJW writers so is still only slowly climbing back up.Marvel is still selling a lot of books, right? Wrong.Most of the sales you see are sold to comic book stores and a lot of comic book stores world wide have complained that Marvel comic book sales are going down in their stores and comic books are going to waste. A lot of comic book store owners have said that Marvel at one point went desperate and started shipping free extra copies to stores.What made people not buy DC New52 comic books? Everything was too different.What was Marvel’s idea? To make everything too different. It’s like Marvel forgot New 52 ever happened.They changed the classics like Thor, Captain America, Hulk etc too much and people lost interest.Why make a new character when you can just take Thor, throw him away and replace him with a woman, feminism. Imagine if Batman and Superman were replaced with completely new Women characters, DC would go out of business real quick.That being said I really like Unworthy Thor series, I couldn’t recommend enough to read it, it’s one for the ages.Why is Marvel selling less?

How much would it cost to license pictures of Marvel/DC Comics characters?

Don’t. But let me be specific. Here are two options.Find a way to funnel money to yourself via paypal and screw them. The Chinese make counterfeit versions of EVERYTHING.Draw ‘in the style of’ artwork and be clear in captions that it relates to Marvel.

Is it possible to read all DC comics?

Possible? Absolutely!Recommended? Nope.There are no official estimates around the number of comics published by DC. The best you can do is go through each title (Batman, Detective Comics, Action Comics, Justice League titles etc) one by one. But it would be confusing since most of the crossovers arcs are sprawled across multiple titles.Unofficial estimates are around 40,000 total titles published till date.I have been reading comics for about 6 years now and have read about 5000–6000 titles (all inclusive). At my current rate, I would be able to finish all DC titles, if I chose to, in another 40 years.However, I don’t read them everyday. I haven’t read one in almost a year now.If you are a fast enough reader, you can breeze through 10 issues in an hour. At that rate, it should take you about 4000 hours to reach your goal.At about 8 hours a day (a full-time job equivalent), it would take you 500 Days, or about a year and a half.But would it truly be worth it?More than half the comics ever published by DC or Marvel are below-average (by definition, heh!). If you truly want engaging reads, they would not be more than 10%. That should help you cover 4000 issues in about a year’s time (assuming 1–2 hours everyday).You can go through the Official DC Index to get a good grasp on everything that happened before the 90s. The only thing you should read in its entirety from the time period before is probably the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline as it changed the fundamental working of the DC universe.To cover the period from Crisis on Infinite Earths to Flashpoint, you can go through the recommended reading section on the DCComics subreddit.And then if you are really inclined, you can read almost all the New 52 titles and then the entirety of Rebirth (and may God will it to be the final major event in DC for a few years to come).Do document your experience and share with us if you go through with it.

How many Lantern Corps are in the DC Comics?

There are 7 Lantern Corps in the DC Universe in total. They are -The Green Lantern Corps - representing willpowerThe Red Lantern Corps - representing rageSinestro Corps (Yellow) - represesenting fearStar Sapphire Corps (Violet) - representing loveIndigo Tribe - representing compassionThe Blue Lantern Corps - representing hopeThe Orange Lantern Corps - Which only consists of one live member; Larfleeze a.k.a. Agent Orange. All the other 'members' of the Orange Lantern Corps are actually constructs of Larfleeze's ring. They're the souls of the creatures he has killed and imprisoned. Orange represents avarice.Two additional Corps are The Black Lantern Corps, introduced in the 2009 'Blackest Night' crossover story arc; and The White Lantern Corps. The most prominent White Lantern is former Green Lantern Kyle Rayner. Black and white represent death and life respectively.