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DC Retroactive
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Cover for DC Retroactive – Batman: 1970s (Sept. 2011), art by Tom Mandrake.
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Publisher DC Comics
Publication dateSeptember and October 2011
No. of issues18
Main character(s) Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, the Justice League, Superman, Wonder Woman
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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 cover dates 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.

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Publication history

The one-shots featured different characters with a nostalgic version of their most representative decades. DC brought back some of the most relevant creative teams in the history of its main characters. Dennis O'Neil wrote Batman during the 1970s, as well as working with artist Mike Grell [1] on the mid-1970s version of Green Lantern .

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. [2]

Each comic book was published in a 46-page format, split between 26 pages of new content, plus 20 pages of reprinted tales. [3]

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". [4] 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". [4]

On June 21 2011, DC revealed the covers for the 1970s issues on The Source blog. [5]

Titles

Issue Cover date Writer(s)Artist(s)Citations
Batman - The '70sSeptember 2011 Len Wein Tom Mandrake [6] [7]
Batman - The '80sOctober 2011 Mike W. Barr Jerry Bingham [8] [9]
Batman - The '90sOctober 2011 Alan Grant Norm Breyfogle [10] [11]
The Flash - The '70sSeptember 2011 Cary Bates Benito Gallego and Sal Buscema [12] [13]
The Flash - The '80sOctober 2011 William Messner-Loebs Greg LaRocque [14] [15]
The Flash - The '90sOctober 2011 Brian Augustyn Mike Bowden and Joe Seung [16] [17]
Green Lantern - The '70sSeptember 2011 Dennis O'Neil Mike Grell [18] [19]
Green Lantern - The '80sOctober 2011Len Wein Joe Staton and Andy Owens [20] [21]
Green Lantern - The '90sOctober 2011 Ron Marz Darryl Banks and Terry Austin [22] [23]
Justice League - The '70sSeptember 2011Cary Bates Gordon Purcell and Andy Smith [24]
Justice League - The '80sOctober 2011 Gerry Conway Ron Randall [25]
Justice League - The '90sOctober 2011 Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis Kevin Maguire [26]
Superman - The '70sSeptember 2011 Martin Pasko Eduardo Barreto and Christian Duce [27]
Superman - The '80sOctober 2011 Marv Wolfman Sergio Cariello [28]
Superman - The '90sOctober 2011 Louise Simonson Jon Bogdanove [29]
Wonder Woman - The '70sSeptember 2011Dennis O'Neil J. Bone [30]
Wonder Woman - The '80sOctober 2011 Roy Thomas Rich Buckler and Joe Rubinstein [31]
Wonder Woman - The '90sOctober 2011William Messner-LoebsLee Moder and Dan Green [32]

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  9. ↑ DC Retroactive: Batman - The '80s Archived 2011-10-17 at the Wayback Machine at DC Comics.com
  10. ↑ "DC Retroactive: Batman - The '90s #1". Grand Comics Database.
  11. ↑ DC Retroactive: Batman - The '90s Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine at DC Comics.com
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  13. ↑ DC Retroactive: Flash - The '70s Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine at DC Comics.com
  14. ↑ "DC Retroactive: Flash - The '80s #1". Grand Comics Database.
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  19. ↑ DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The '70s
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