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Hmm Death of Superman, Green Arrow, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Ice... Batman's back, Donna Troy's family, Aquaman's hand...
Alex Dewitt stuffed in a fridge, Death of most of the JSA, John Stewart crippled, his wife dead. And I was barely reading the comics...
Let's agree to disagree. ^^
Really? Interesting......and no one has it now? Did it hit public domain or something?
Was it ever used on a cover? I'm pretty sure there's a big legal difference between covers and interior pages. If DC could get their hands on that name I can't imagine why they wouldn't though, especially since they used it in Flashpoint.
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"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
If you were reading comics alot more regularly, you'd know most of these examples are poor ones for your argument.
The death of Superman was reversed almost immediately and saw the creation of Conner Kent and John Henry Irons, who are fan favourites. They even got their own books.
Katma Tui was killed in a 1988 story by Christopher Priest.
Batman's back breaking was reversed almost immediately, like Superman's death.
The Aquaman book was the first step in washing off the stench from Superfriends.
Green Arrow dying is not in and of itself unnecessarily dark and his replacement Connor Hawke, was even more heroic than him and is a fan favourite to this day.
Alex DeWitt's death was pointless. On the other hand, it was criticized at the time and it was when people became a lot more critical of killing off or harming love interests for male characters drama.
The death of Hal and the Corps gave us Kyle Rayner, which saved the GL comic for a while.
The deaths of the JSA paved the way for newer replacements some of which became popular like Stargirl.
About the only one of these that you can use are thd death of Ice, the death of Donna's family (though most were glad to be rid of Terry Long) and John's crippling. And these pale in comparison to what the 2000s and 2010s gave us.
None of that refutes how dark those moments were. If there brutal murder of a friend brings two people together, it doesn't offset the murder. It just means something good came off of a horrendous moment.
The '90s had an in-house and denoting with glee that they killed Superman, broke Batman and now are gunning for GL. It was a dark time, and I like a lot of books from that era.
If you ask for a modern DC book to be on another earth your essentially getting it cancelled. Fans want mainline relevance, the head office dont care for stuff they can easily sideline. Both are a recipe for disaster.
Heroes in Crisis is getting two books spin out of it to repair what was done, one of which is marketed as a fun book where Harley gets her girl back. I'm sure there will be some drama, but it's already backpedaling. What's your point? DC published Kyle Baker's Plastic Man at the same time as Identity Crisis. It's not that much different.