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DC Retroactive is a line of one-shot comic book issues published by DC Comics. It revisited periods (grouped by decades) of the company's main characters: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Justice League, and the Flash. These comics were published with of September and October 2011. The DC Retroactive comic books followed the Flashpoint event and were launched just before The New 52 line wherein DC titles were relaunched starting from #1.
The Retroactive line also brought back writers and artists had not worked for DC for many years; some of whom had retired from comics, such as Rich Buckler, who drew one Wonder Woman story. Mike W. Barr, Cary Bates, Norm Breyfogle, Gerry Conway, Tom Mandrake, and Len Wein worked on the characters which they were associated with in the past.
Each comic book was published in a 46-page format, split between 26 pages of new content, plus 20 pages of reprinted tales.
Ben Abernathy, one of the editors of the project, stated: "It's the creators working on the characters that so many fans grew up reading. Readers have a real fondness and love for the material. And the opportunity to revisit that era, with the creators who made it great, is a welcome change from everything else going on in the industry these days". Abernathy also noted that "the mandate given was, basically, we wanted to tell a fun story that was set in the era, whether it be posed as a 'lost story', 'story they always wanted to tell' or maybe something connected to the reprint".
On June 21, 2011, DC revealed the covers for the 1970s issues on The Source blog.
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Categories: 2011 Comics Debuts, 2011 Comics Endings, Comics By Alan Grant, Comics By Dennis O'neil, Comics By Gerry Conway, Comics By J. M. Dematteis, Comics By Keith Giffen, Comics By Len Wein, Comics By Louise Simonson, Comics By Marv Wolfman, Comics By Roy Thomas, Dc Comics Limited Series, Dc Comics One-shots, Defunct American Comics, Lists Of Comics By Dc Comics
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