History of the DC Universe

    (DC, 1986, 2002)
™ and ©1986 DC Comics, Inc.

The DC Universe had, over time, gone from being one world to a whole collection of them—a multiverse. Then, during the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the multiverse was destroyed—retroactively. Suddenly, fifty years of continuity were gone. In the post-Crisis world, much of what readers knew to be fact had never actually happened. The question then was, “What is the real history of the DC universe?”

In 1986, DC attempted to answer this question in two graphic novels. The History of the DC Universe lays out the grand tapestry of characters and events that serve as a backdrop for DC’s various storylines. It begins before the dawn of life on Earth and ranges into the 30th century, time of the Legion of Super-Heroes. What falls in between is a grand tapestry of heroes, villains, gods, and extraordinary mortals.
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#1

January, 1987
Cover Price: $2.95
15 copies available from $0.99 		Marv WolfmanGeorge Pérez
#2

February, 1987
Cover Price: $2.95
14 copies available from $1.00 		Marv WolfmanGeorge Pérez
Book #1

February, 2002
Cover Price: $9.95
1 copy available for $5.95 		Marv WolfmanGeorge Pérez
Book #1 (Hardcover Edition by Bill Sienkiewicz)

January, 1988
Cover Price: $35.00
1 copy available for $100.00 		Marv Wolfman, Neal Adams, Julius Schwartz, Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane, Joe Kubert, Roy Thomas, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Jack Kirby, Ramona Fradon, George Pérez, Frank MillerGeorge Pérez, Neal Adams, Joe Shuster, Dick Sprang, Joe Kubert, Kurt Schaffenberger, Steve Lightle, Stephen R. Bissette, John Totleben, Jack Kirby, Steve Rude, Ramona Fradon, Trina Robbins, Frank Miller, Jim Mooney, Jim Aparo, Denys Cowan, P. Craig Russell, Martin Nodell, Joe Staton, Dave Stevens, Bill Sienkiewicz, Keith Giffen, Bret Blevins, Al Williamson, Michael W. Kaluta, Gene Colan, Brian Bolland, Michael T. Gilbert, Jim Starlin, Arthur Adams, Walt Simonson, Paul Norris, Mike Grell, Mary Wilshire, Andy Kubert, Gil Kane, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, Howard Chaykin, Jan Duursema, Carmine Infantino, Jim Steranko, Gray Morrow, Murphy Anderson, Dave Gibbons, Gilbert Hernandez, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, Matt Wagner, Ernie Colón, Irwin Hasen, Joe Orlando, Pat Broderick, Jaime Hernandez, Frank McLaughlin, Dick Giordano, Sheldon Meyer