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Comics Fandom News. DC Comics Icons. The Super Dictionary. One of the parts of his hand? Not even, “one of the long parts of his hand”? I mean, for all I know, you could be talking about Green Lantern’s knuckles! Or his fingernails. Lucky for you, Super Dictionary, that we know what you meant. And yeah, I guess Hal wears one ring. Except when this happened: Then he had nine rings! Don’t even ask me what’s going on with Hal’s arm muscles. (Gif credit to themaskedman) Displacement of meaning in the Post-Modern Age. Dear Batman, You are cute but I am in love with Robin. I like to dress up like Robin. I put on my leotards, then my bathing suit, a towel and my pajama top. My towel looks like a cape. I look a lot like Robin if you close your eyes. Love, Stephanie G.
Malden, Mass. 1 Television and sequential art are two media where the image is intrinsic to conveying the intended meaning. But, as Stephanie G put it, there are other ways of seeing Robin, if you close your eyes. Looking with one's eyes closed can also be a useful critical tool. The Golden Age of comics, particularly in relation to DC Comics, is typically defined as beginning in the late 1930s with the publication of Action Comics #1, the first Superman story. Green Arrow's creation as a whole earned few points for originality. The Silver Age was a period of downward sliding for Batman and Robin -- in comic books, at least. Dick's problem was part of DC's larger dilemma.
The Silver Age's end, I would argue, took place in 1985-86. The Unauthorized Chronology of the DC Universe. History of the DC Universe 3.0. As I have mentioned frequently on the podcast I co-host, We Talk Comics, I am very engaged with DC’s New 52 but think it would have been better served to have offered up a variation of the History of the DC Universe that followed the reboot of Crisis on Infinite Earths and the History back-ups in 52 that followed the lesser reboot of Infinite Crisis. Since DC is not going to create one, I took it upon myself to lead the way. This timeline could not have been created with the amazing support of a team of Twitter folk: @FotoCub, @ScarlettMi, @craiggav, and @MayhemComics. 739 comics were published in The New 52 as of the end of September 2012.
Each issue had to be reread and notes assembled. Even more impressive is that this timeline is trimmed down from what was supplied by these supportive DC fans. A special thanks to Gail Simone, Dan Jurgens, James Robinson and Rob Liefeld who contributed a couple of key details through Twitter. - Keith Callbeck. History of the DC Universe 3.0 -3000 years. The Trade Paperback Reading Order. Comic Vine. Digital Comics.