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Absolute Catwoman
Absolute Catwoman is a 2026 six-issue DC limited series in the Absolute Universe, by Scott Snyder, Che Grayson, and Bengal, reimagining Selina Kyle as a wealthy, high-tech world-class thief.
Absolute Power (comics)
Absolute Power is DC Comics' 2024 four-issue crossover event by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, in which Amanda Waller, Failsafe, and the Brainiac Queen strip every metahuman's powers, leading into DC All In.
Absolute Universe
The Absolute Universe is DC Comics' alternate continuity launched October 2024 via DC All In, reimagining Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as underdogs stripped of wealth, family, and paradise; 15 of 2025's top 20 comics were Absolute titles.
Afterlife with Archie
Afterlife with Archie (2013–2016) is a 10-issue horror comic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla in which Sabrina's necromancy resurrects Jughead's dog Hot Dog and triggers a zombie apocalypse in Riverdale; it launched the Archie Horror imprint and is being adapted for Disney+.
All Star Comics
All Star Comics (All-Star Comics) was a DC predecessor anthology series, 1940–1951, 57 issues, that introduced the Justice Society of America in #3 (December 1940) and Wonder Woman in #8, then became All Star Western.
Baby Blues (comic strip)
Baby Blues is an American newspaper comic strip that follows Darryl and Wanda MacPherson raising their three children. It debuted in 1990 and won a Reuben Award in 1995.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: American comic strip created by Billy DeBeck, debuted June 17, 1919 as Take Barney Google, F'rinstance; a King Features Appalachian comedy starring Snuffy Smith since 1934, drawn by Lasswell 1942–2001 and John Rose since.
Batman: Hush
Batman: Hush, a 2002-2003 twelve-issue Batman storyline (Batman #608-619) by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, in which the villain Hush, revealed as Bruce Wayne's childhood friend Thomas Elliot, manipulates Batman's rogues gallery; followed by Heart of Hush and Hush 2.
Big Nate
Big Nate is Lincoln Peirce's comic strip, syndicated since 1991, about 11-year-old Nate Wright of P.S. 38; it spawned bestselling illustrated novels from 2010 and Nickelodeon animated adaptations.
Blood Hunt (comics)
Blood Hunt is a 2024 Marvel Comics crossover event by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz in which eternal night falls and vampires led by Varnae and the Bloodcoven conquer Earth; a five-issue series with many tie-ins, inspiring a Marvel Rivals season.
Bringing Up Father
Bringing Up Father, also known as Jiggs and Maggie, is George McManus's American comic strip (1913–2000) about a nouveau riche Irish-American couple: Jiggs longs for his old tavern life while Maggie pursues high society; syndicated by King Features and adapted for stage, film, and radio.
Cable & Deadpool
Cable & Deadpool: Marvel Comics ongoing team-up comic series (2004-2008, 50 issues) pairing Cable and Deadpool, written by Fabian Nicieza; first arc If Looks Could Kill; canceled at #50 for new solo series.
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Watterson's comic strip (1985-1995, Universal Press Syndicate) about six-year-old Calvin and Hobbes, his stuffed tiger alive only to him; named for philosophers, refused all merchandising.
Daily Planet
Daily Planet names two subjects: the fictional Metropolis newspaper in DC Comics' Superman stories (Daily Star in Action Comics #1, 1938; staff Perry White, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen) and Discovery Channel Canada's daily science magazine series (1995–2018, hosts Jay Ingram, Ziya Tong, Dan Riskin).
Daredevil (Marvel Comics series)
Daredevil (Marvel Comics series): the ongoing Marvel comic starring blind lawyer Matt Murdock, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett in Daredevil #1 (April 1964). Distinguished by Frank Miller's 1980s run, Born Again, the Bendis/Maleev era, and the 2026 Stephanie Phillips/Lee Garbett volume.
DC Entertainment
DC Entertainment, Warner Bros.' 2009 subsidiary managing DC Comics publishing and IP licensing across film, TV, games, and podcasts; brands DC Comics, Vertigo, MAD; film unit DC Studios (James Gunn's DCU reboot, 2023); passed to Skydance with Paramount's 2026 Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.
DC Finest trade paperbacks
DC Finest is DC Comics' softcover trade paperback reprint line, launched late 2024, collecting classic stories chronologically in roughly 600-page, $39.99 volumes, DC's counterpart to Marvel's Epic Collections.
Dial H for Hero
Dial H for Hero is a DC Comics concept, the H-Dial rotary phone that turns its user into a random superhero for one hour. Created by Dave Wood and Jim Mooney in House of Mystery #156 (1966); dialers include Robby Reed, Chris King, Vicki Grant, Hero Cruz, and Miguel Montez.
Genosha
Genosha is a fictional island nation in Marvel's X-Men comics, created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi in Uncanny X-Men #235 (1988) as an apartheid allegory where mutants were enslaved, later Magneto's mutant haven, destroyed by Sentinels in New X-Men.
Gotham City
Gotham City, the fictional DC Comics metropolis and home of Batman, first named in Batman #4 (winter 1940/41) by Bill Finger, given a 1635 founding myth in Swamp Thing #53, mapped by Eliot Brown in 1999, and read as a dark counterpart to Metropolis.
Harrow County
Harrow County is a 32-issue southern gothic folk horror comic by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook, published by Dark Horse from 2015 to 2018, about Emmy, possibly the reincarnation of the witch Hester Beck, with watercolor art, an Eisner nomination, a Syfy option, and Tales from Harrow County sequels.
House of Mystery
House of Mystery is a DC Comics horror and mystery anthology (1951-1983, 321 issues), later a Vertigo series (2008-2011) about five people trapped in a supernatural bar, hosted in its horror era by Cain the Caretaker.
Image Comics
Image Comics, founded in 1992 by seven ex-Marvel artists including McFarlane, Liefeld, and Jim Lee, is the third-largest US comic publisher and the leading creator-owned house, taking no IP or media rights from creators. Notable for Spawn, The Walking Dead, and Saga.
Latveria
Latveria (Kingdom of Latveria) is a fictional Eastern European country in Marvel Comics, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964) as the absolute-monarchy homeland ruled by Doctor Doom from Castle Doom in the capital Doomstadt.
List of The Amazing Spider-Man issues
List of The Amazing Spider-Man issues: Marvel's flagship Spider-Man comic (1963–present), published across seven volumes plus annuals, tracked by a shared legacy count that reached issue #1000.
Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke, the Franco-Belgian western comic created by Morris in 1946 and scripted by René Goscinny from 1955, follows the cowboy faster than his shadow with Jolly Jumper; 116 albums, 420 million copies, 36 languages.
Marshal Law
Marshal Law, satirical comic series and character by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill, debuted in Epic Comics' 1987 six-issue miniseries; a superpowered hero-hunter, ex-soldier Joe Gilmore of San Futuro, later published by Apocalypse, Dark Horse, and DC.
Marvel 1602
Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue Marvel Knights limited series (2003–2004) by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove reimagining Marvel heroes in Elizabethan England as feared "witchbreeds", spawning the Earth-311 1602 universe sequels.
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics, also known historically as Timely Comics and Atlas Comics, is the American comic publisher founded by Martin Goodman in 1939, home of Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, Disney-owned since 2009 and relocating to Burbank in 2026.
Marvel Premiere
Marvel Premiere was a Marvel Comics tryout anthology series, April 1972 to August 1981, 61 issues, distinct from the modern Marvel Premier Collection trade paperback line. It debuted Adam Warlock (#1) and Iron Fist (#15) and carried the second Doctor Strange series (#3-14).