DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest American comic book publishing companies, a subsidiary of Time Warner and Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The name initials were originally an abbreviation for Detective Comics, and later became the company's official name.
DC is famous for being responsible for some of comics' most famous characters, including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, as well as their Justice League of America teammates the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, The Martina Manhunter and Green Arrow. All of them were created during the Golden Age of comics before the 1960s. Before that era, DC Comics was the main American comic book publisher company, but since then it has competed for the title with Marvel Comics.
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DC's headquarter offices are located in New York City and has successively moved from its original place at 432 Fourth Avenue, to 480 and later 575 Lexington Avenue; 909 Third Avenue; 75 Rockefeller Plaza; 666 Fifth Avenue; 1325 Avenue of the Americas, and finally, in the mid-1990s, took over several floors when it moved to 1700 Broadway, with fellow Time Warner property MAD Magazine, which moved there from 485 Madison Avenue.
