DC Comics / Warner Bros.

DC Comics is an American comic book publisher founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, evolving through mergers into Detective Comics Inc. and later National Periodical Publications before officially adopting the DC Comics name in 1977 under Kinney National Company ownership. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, headquartered in Burbank, California, and is renowned for iconic characters like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, standing as one of the two largest comic book companies alongside Marvel.