Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Apr 18, 2016 10:00:39 GMT -6
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COMIC LEGEND: Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman both tried to change the name of DC Comics in the 1980s.
STATUS: True
Comic book writer/artist (and Art Director on his own line of books!) Dale Lazarov asked me about this a few months back, namely, is it true that DC Comics nearly changed the name of their company from “Detective Comics” to DYNAMIC Comics?
I don’t know how CLOSE such a movement ever came, but during the 1980s, there definitely were two separate movements for such a name change.
As you may or may not know, DC Comics was originally National Comics, but over time, they began to be unofficially referred to as DC Comics, in reference to the first ongoing comic book magazine produced by National Comics, Detective Comics…
Eventually, they just officially adopted the name as their company name.
When Roy Thomas joined DC in the early 1980s, however, he thought that they should mix things up, and he heavily pushed for them to change what “DC” stood for, from Detective Comics to Dynamic Comics. He explained his thinking in Alter Ego #100 in a great interview with Jim Amash:
From the very beginning, I kept making these impertinent suggestions. I tried to convince them to change the name “DC.” I said, “Forget about ‘Detective Comics.’ Comic readers don’t care about detectives. Let ‘DC’ stand for ‘Dynamic Comics.’ Then it’d be ‘Marvel vs. Dynamic’ instead of ‘Marvel vs. DC'” Once again, a pat on the head.
That did not work out, but interestingly enough, when DC was discussing what to do post Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman suggested that DC re-name their line of comics, now naming them after that OTHER famous first issue from the late 1930s, Action Comics…
Which, after all, DID suggest a more, well, dynamic type of comics than “Detective Comics.” Plus, like Thomas noted, Marvel vs. Action is better than Marvel vs. DC.
Again, though, DC kept the name. I don’t think they ever really came all that close to changing the name, Dale, but Thomas and Wolfman both definitely tried!
Thanks for the question, Dale!
COMIC LEGEND: Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman both tried to change the name of DC Comics in the 1980s.
STATUS: True
Comic book writer/artist (and Art Director on his own line of books!) Dale Lazarov asked me about this a few months back, namely, is it true that DC Comics nearly changed the name of their company from “Detective Comics” to DYNAMIC Comics?
I don’t know how CLOSE such a movement ever came, but during the 1980s, there definitely were two separate movements for such a name change.
As you may or may not know, DC Comics was originally National Comics, but over time, they began to be unofficially referred to as DC Comics, in reference to the first ongoing comic book magazine produced by National Comics, Detective Comics…
Eventually, they just officially adopted the name as their company name.
When Roy Thomas joined DC in the early 1980s, however, he thought that they should mix things up, and he heavily pushed for them to change what “DC” stood for, from Detective Comics to Dynamic Comics. He explained his thinking in Alter Ego #100 in a great interview with Jim Amash:
From the very beginning, I kept making these impertinent suggestions. I tried to convince them to change the name “DC.” I said, “Forget about ‘Detective Comics.’ Comic readers don’t care about detectives. Let ‘DC’ stand for ‘Dynamic Comics.’ Then it’d be ‘Marvel vs. Dynamic’ instead of ‘Marvel vs. DC'” Once again, a pat on the head.
That did not work out, but interestingly enough, when DC was discussing what to do post Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman suggested that DC re-name their line of comics, now naming them after that OTHER famous first issue from the late 1930s, Action Comics…
Which, after all, DID suggest a more, well, dynamic type of comics than “Detective Comics.” Plus, like Thomas noted, Marvel vs. Action is better than Marvel vs. DC.
Again, though, DC kept the name. I don’t think they ever really came all that close to changing the name, Dale, but Thomas and Wolfman both definitely tried!
Thanks for the question, Dale!