DC Comics Crossword Puzzles

About DC Comics Crosswords

These DC Comics crossword puzzles travel from Metropolis and the Daily Planet to Gotham City, Themyscira and Oa. Clues cover the Justice League, Superman's friends and foes, Wonder Woman's Amazon homeland, Batman's rogues gallery and the Robins of the Batman family, the Green Lantern Corps, the Teen Titans, and screen adaptations from Christopher Reeve to Peacemaker. Easier grids stick to the big heroes and their secret identities; harder ones dig into sidekicks.

Interesting Facts

1.Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1, which went on sale on April 18, 1938, with a cover date of June 1938. He was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, who met as students at Glenville High School in Cleveland.
2.Batman debuted in Detective Comics #27, published March 30, 1939, and cover-dated May 1939. Writer Bill Finger went without a creator credit for decades until DC began crediting him as Batman's co-creator, alongside artist Bob Kane, in 2015.
3.Wonder Woman debuted in All Star Comics #8, published October 21, 1941. She was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, who wrote under the pen name Charles Moulton, and was drawn by artist Harry G. Peter.
4.The Justice League of America first assembled in The Brave and the Bold #28, cover-dated March 1960. Writer Gardner Fox conceived the team as a revival of the Justice Society of America, with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter as its seven founding members.
5.The letters DC stand for Detective Comics, the series first published in 1937 that later introduced Batman. The publisher began in 1935 as Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications and officially changed its name to DC Comics in 1977.

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