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David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli (born 1960) is an American comics artist and writer known for Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One with Frank Miller, the City of Glass adaptation with Paul Karasik, and his award-winning graphic novel Asterios Polyp (2009).
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.
Deadshot
Deadshot, also known as Floyd Lawton, is a DC Comics marksman and hired assassin, a Batman villain from 1950 and a core Suicide Squad member.
Death (Marvel Comics)
Death, often called Mistress Death, is a fictional abstract entity in Marvel Comics who personifies death; her relationship with the lovesick Thanos drives cosmic epics like 1991's Infinity Gauntlet.
Death's Head (Marvel Comics)
Death's Head is a robotic freelance peacekeeping agent created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior, debuting in Marvel UK's Transformers #113 (May 1987). Secured for Marvel via the 'High Noon Tex' strip, he crossed into Doctor Who and the Marvel Universe, starred in a 1988 solo series, and spawned Death's Head II, 3.0, and V.
Deathstroke
Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) is a DC Comics mercenary and assassin created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, debuting in The New Teen Titans #2 (1980) as Deathstroke the Terminator, with superhuman abilities from an experimental military process.
Defenders (comics)
Defenders (comics): Marvel Comics superhero "non-team" debuting in Marvel Feature #1 (1971) with Doctor Strange, Namor, and the Hulk; distinct from the 2017 Netflix Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist team.
Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯)
Delicious in Dungeon (ダンジョン飯, Dungeon Meshi) is Ryoko Kui's fantasy-gourmet manga, serialized in Harta 2014–2023 in 14 volumes, in which adventurers eat monsters to survive a dungeon; it won the 55th Seiun Award and the American Manga Award.
Den (comics)
Den is Richard Corben's fantasy comic character, David Ellis Norman transformed into a muscular adventurer in Neverwhere. Serialized in Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal 1977-78, adapted in the Heavy Metal film, restored by Dark Horse in five volumes 2023-2025.
Deviant (comics)
Deviants (Homo descendus) is a fictional race of humanoids in Marvel Comics that features wildly varying physical characteristics across generations, first published by Jack Kirby in The Eternals (1976).
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.
Dilbert
Dilbert, Scott Adams's syndicated comic strip launched April 16, 1989, satirized corporate office life through an engineer, Dogbert, and the Pointy-Haired Boss, reaching over 2,000 newspapers before its 2023 end.
Doctor Manhattan
Doctor Manhattan (Jon Osterman) is the only superpowered being in DC's Watchmen, created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in Watchmen #1 (September 1986); a physicist transformed by an intrinsic-field accident, he is named for the Manhattan Project, shaped Cold War history, and appears in the 2009 film, HBO series, and 2024 animation.
Dogpool
Dogpool (Mary Puppins) is a canine Deadpool variant from Marvel Comics' Deadpool Corps, Earth-103173, and the 2024 film Deadpool & Wolverine, played by Peggy, a Pug-Chinese Crested mix who won the UK's Ugliest Dog competition.
Don Rosa
Don Rosa (Keno Don Hugo Rosa, born 1951, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American Disney comics writer-artist, creator of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, two-time Eisner Award winner, and Carl Barks's most prominent successor.
Doonesbury
Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau's political comic strip (from Bull Tales), debuted October 26, 1970 in 28 newspapers via Universal Press Syndicate; first comic strip to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1975), Sunday-only since 2014.
Drax the Destroyer
Drax the Destroyer (Arthur Douglas) is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jim Starlin, first appearing in Iron Man #55 (February 1973) as a being resurrected by Kronos to kill Thanos, later a Guardian of the Galaxy played by Dave Bautista in the MCU.
E. C. Segar
E. C. Segar (Elzie Crisler Segar, 1894–1938), American cartoonist from Chester, Illinois, creator of the comic strip Thimble Theatre (1919) and the sailor Popeye (1929), whose spinach-loving character drove a 33% US spinach-consumption rise.
E. H. Shepard
E. H. Shepard (Ernest Howard Shepard, 1879–1976), English illustrator and Punch cartoonist who drew the original Winnie-the-Pooh, modeled on his son's bear Growler, and The Wind in the Willows, and won the Military Cross in WWI.
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (born 1966, Bethesda, Maryland), American comic writer of crime/noir comics; co-creator of the Winter Soldier with Sean Phillips; created Criminal, Fatale, Pulp, and The Fade Out.
Edgar P. Jacobs
Edgar P. Jacobs (Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, 1904–1987), Belgian comic author and former opera singer, creator of Blake and Mortimer; worked with Hergé recoloring Tintin albums before launching Le Secret de l'Espadon in Tintin in 1946.
Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac, born Edmond Dulac (1882–1953), was a French-born book illustrator and designer in London, a leading figure of the gift book golden age who later designed British stamps.
Édouard-Henri Avril
Édouard-Henri Avril (Paul Avril), French painter-illustrator, 1849-1928, born Algiers, died Le Raincy; trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and known for about 46 erotic and galante book illustrations including De Figuris Veneris.
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911), American illustrator and painter based in England, known for Shakespearean illustrations for Harper's, the Boston Public Library Holy Grail murals, and Pennsylvania Capitol murals.
Emilia Harcourt
Emilia Harcourt, DC Comics intelligence agent introduced in Suicide Squad (2016) #2, an NSA/ARGUS operative monitoring Task Force X; on screen played by Jennifer Holland in The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker.
Emily the Strange
Emily the Strange: goth girl character created in 1991 by Nathan Carrico for Santa Cruz skateboards, developed by Rob Reger's Cosmic Debris, with four black cats, Dark Horse comics, novels, and merchandise.
Eric Ravilious
Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) was a British watercolourist, wood engraver, and designer of Wedgwood ceramics, known for South Downs landscapes and war art.
Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), American cartoonist who created the comic strip Nancy, taking over Fritzi Ritz in 1925 at age 19 and building each gag backward from the final 'snapper' panel.
Erté
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, Роман Петрович Тыртов), 1892–1990, Russian-born French Art Deco fashion illustrator and stage designer; 240+ Harper's Bazaar covers, Folies-Bergère and Hollywood costumes, late bronzes.