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DC Compact Comics

DC Compact Comics is DC Comics' line of $9.99, 5.5" x 8.5" full-color paperback reprints of backlist graphic novels, announced November 2023 and launched June 2024 with titles like Watchmen and All-Star Superman, aimed at new readers and manga buyers.

DC Compendium

DC Compendium is a line of softcover collected editions published by DC Comics since 2020. It gathers large runs of comic book issues in standard trim size.

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 Extended Universe

DC Extended Universe (DCEU), also called the Snyderverse era: Warner Bros.' shared-universe DC Comics film franchise from Man of Steel (2013) through Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), 15 films, replaced by James Gunn's rebooted DCU.

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.

DC K.O.

DC K.O. (King Omega) is DC Comics' 2025–2026 five-issue event series by Scott Snyder and Javi Fernández, in which 32 fighters battle in a tournament against Darkseid's reign; it continues the DC All In era.

DC League of Super-Pets

DC League of Super-Pets is a 2022 Warner Bros. animated comedy directed by Jared Stern, with Dwayne Johnson voicing Krypto the Super-Dog, who leads shelter pets Ace, PB, Merton, and Chip to rescue the kidnapped Justice League; it earned $207.6 million worldwide.

DC Next Level

DC Next Level (2026) is a DC Comics publishing initiative of creator-driven #1 series in main continuity, the second act of DC All In led by Scott Snyder and Joshua Williamson, launching after DC K.O. with Lobo, Batwoman, and Deathstroke, unlike the separate Absolute Universe.

DC Rebirth

DC Rebirth is DC Comics' 2016 line-wide relaunch, restoring New 52-era continuity and legacy characters via Geoff Johns's DC Universe: Rebirth #1, twice-monthly $2.99 shipping, and a Watchmen-linked mystery that ran into Doomsday Clock.

DC Shoes

DC Shoes: American skateboarding footwear and apparel brand founded by Ken Block and Damon Way in 1994 (from Droors Clothing), maker of the Lynx and Court Graffik, owned by Authentic Brands Group since 2023.

DC Studios

DC Studios: Warner Bros. Discovery division led by James Gunn and Peter Safran (appointed 2022) that relaunched the DC Universe across film, TV, animation, and gaming, starting with Creature Commandos and Superman.

DC Super Hero Girls

DC Super Hero Girls is a DC Comics franchise presenting female DC heroes and villains as teens: a 2015-2018 YouTube web series set at Super Hero High with Mattel toys, and a 2019 Lauren Faust Cartoon Network reboot set at a regular Metropolis high school.

DC Super Hero Girls (TV series)

DC Super Hero Girls (2019 TV series), the Lauren Faust reboot of the 2015 web series, is a Cartoon Network animated action-comedy following teen Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Zatanna, Green Lantern, and Bumblebee in Metropolis.

DC Talk

dc Talk, American Christian rap and rock trio (Toby McKeehan, Michael Tait, Kevin Max) formed at Liberty University, Virginia; albums Free at Last (1992) and Jesus Freak (1995), four Grammys, paused in 2000.

DC Universe

The DC Universe is DC Comics' shared fictional setting for Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, marked by a multiverse, repeated Crises and reboots since 1985, and a new DC Studios film and TV continuity led by James Gunn and Peter Safran.

DC Universe (franchise)

The DC Universe (DCU) is a shared-universe superhero franchise from DC Studios, announced by James Gunn and Peter Safran in January 2023 as a reboot of DC's screen properties.

DC Universe Animated Original Movies

DC Universe Animated Original Movies: Warner Bros.' direct-to-video DC Comics animated film line launched 2007 with Superman: Doomsday; hosted the DCAMU (2013-2020) and Tomorrowverse (2020-2024) continuities; banner retired 2024.

DC vs. Marvel

DC vs. Marvel covers the rivalry between the two major American comic publishers and the 1996 four-issue crossover miniseries with fan-voted battles, the Amalgam mash-up comics, and later crossovers including 2025's Batman/Deadpool.

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog is a DC Comics–Sega intercompany crossover: a five-issue 2025 limited series by Ian Flynn and Adam Bryce Thomas in which Darkseid invades Sonic's world for the Chaos Emeralds, followed by the 2026 sequel Metal Legion.

DC-10 (music)

DC-10, also written DC10, is a nightclub in Ibiza, Spain, near the airport, best known as the home of the Circoloco party, held every Monday since 1999.

DCI Banks

DCI Banks: British ITV crime drama (2010–2016, 32 episodes, five series) adapted from Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels, starring Stephen Tompkinson, Andrea Lowe, and Caroline Catz; cancelled by ITV in November 2016.

DCS

DCS is a British bhangra band formed in Birmingham in 1983 and fronted by the singer Shin, a defining act of the UK bhangra scene.

DD (Daredemo Daisuki)

DD (Daredemo Daisuki, 誰でも大好き, "loves everyone") is Japanese fan-culture slang for a fan who supports many idols, characters, or VTubers at once instead of committing to a single oshi.

DD Returns

DD Returns (டிடி ரிட்டர்ன்ஸ்), also marketed as Dare Demons, is a 2023 Tamil comedy horror film directed by S. Prem Anand, starring Santhanam and Surbhi, about a ghost forcing thieves to play a survival game; it earned ₹38.50 Cr gross and a Super Hit verdict.

DDG (rapper)

DDG (Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr., born 1997, Pontiac, Michigan) is an American rapper and YouTuber, also known as PontiacMadeDDG, signed to Epic Records, whose platinum Blueface remix "Moonwalking in Calabasas" and livestreamed albums Blame the Chat and HIT-A-THON distinguish him from other streaming-era rappers.

Ddu-Du Ddu-Du (뚜두뚜두)

Ddu-Du Ddu-Du (뚜두뚜두, DDU-DU DDU-DU) is BLACKPINK's 2018 title track from Square Up, written by TEDDY with 24, R.Tee, and Bekuh Boom; famous for its finger-gun choreography, Billboard Hot 100 No. 55, and record K-pop group YouTube views.

De Actibus Apostolorum

De Actibus Apostolores is a two-book Latin epic poem by the sixth-century poet Arator that retells the biblical Acts of the Apostles in dactylic hexameters, completed in 544.

De Consulatu Stilichonis

De Consulatu Stilichonis ("On the Consulship of Stilicho") is a three-book Latin epic panegyric by Claudian, court poet to Honorius, celebrating Stilicho's consulship in AD 400; the third book describes his arrival in Rome.

De contemptu mundi

De contemptu mundi ("On the contempt of the world") is a Latin satirical poem in three books written around 1144 by Bernard of Cluny, a monk of Cluny whose work inspired hymns like "Jerusalem the Golden".

De Dana Dan (दे दनादन)

De Dana Dan (दे दनादन) is a 2009 Hindi comedy directed by Priyadarshan, starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Katrina Kaif, and Paresh Rawal; two broke Singapore friends botch a dog-napping ransom plot, grossing ₹81.85 crore worldwide.