After having success with DC comic book characters (a result of being owned by Warner Bros.), TT Games has partnered with its archrival, Marvel Entertainment, to give more than 100 superheroes such as Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine and Captain America the brick treatment.
Their creation was picked up by DC Comics in 1937, who then hired the pair to create comic strips, with DC owning all work created from that point on.
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With the convergence of DC Comics already successful from comic books to blockbuster movies like The Dark Knight Rises to hit games like Warner Bros.
The Beano Club stopped accepting new members in August, though the comic's Dundee publishers DC Thomson said it would honour existing subscriptions.
The Wonder Woman comic book was relaunched by DC in 2006, and by last year the new volume had reached issue No. 44.
But aware of the deluge of media now directed at children, including films and games as well as TV, the comic's owners, DC Thomson, decided to go for wholesale change.
When talking to the comic cognizati, the message is that DC is simply writing better stories than Marvel, and the broader audience is starting to take notice.
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According to Diamond Distributors, the marquis comic distribution firm, Marvel still owns a larger share of the consumer pie than DC, but DC is coming on stronger every month.
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Inspired by the "Infinite Crisis" comic books, this game's original story has the barriers between the different dimensions of the DC Multiverse being torn apart.
In addition to the announcement Tuesday that the comic book "Justice League" would be starting again at issue No. 1 in September, DC officials told CNN the publisher would also be renumbering and modernizing such titles as Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, The Fury of Firestorm, The Savage Hawkman, Green Arrow, Justice League International, Mister Terrific, Captain Atom and DC Universe Presents.
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