By the way, what does DC mean?

Now, there isn’t a cinematic year that doesn’t see one (or more) of DC’s superhero adventure(s) hit the big screen. And a small question “Have you seen the new DC?” It is now presented to millions of people around the world as an entry in the everyday language of any good geek (or not) self-respecting viewer.

While the feature film Shazam! With The Rage of the Gods still in theaters and The Flash in full swing (of course!), we’re asking ourselves a very simple question: What do those famous DC initials stand for?

We do not make the suspension longer: the initials DC are an abbreviation Detective comics. To understand where it comes from Detective comicsYou have to go back to the beginning of history, in 1934, when DC was not yet DC, but National Allied Publications.

A publishing company founded by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, a former US Army major turned pulp author, National Allied Publications will produce the comics. New funny comicswhich did not have success in the following comics New comics. Success is still not there and debts are piling up…

It then takes Harry Donnenfeld and Jack Leibovitz, the managers of the company that publishes these comics, to save the ship for National Allied Publications. In 1937, the reorganized company was renamed Detective Comics, Inc., a new name to coincide with the publication of the comics. Detective comics, which is a huge success, thanks in particular to The Adventures of Batman. And whose numbers are still published today!

To sum it up, if DC is called DC, there’s probably little respect for the era in which the company, then Detective Comics, Inc. It was called, it raised its head in the 1930s. in extremis which today allows audiences around the world to enjoy superhero adventures alongside Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and more…

Trailer “Shazam! Rage of the Gods”: