Quote Originally Posted by Buried Alien View Post
Moreover, I never thought Didio actively championed the return of Hal and Barry in the 2000s as much as he did not oppose it. The previous regime had that anti-Silver/Bronze Age hangup, but Didio didn't.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)
Very much this.

Dan was bombarded with pitches from people who wanted to bring back Kara, Barry, Hal, etc.

Those pitches never stopped. Jurgens would have brought back Kara in 1992 if they'd let him. Jeph Loeb had to get approval from Jenette Khan to bring back Krypto. Paul Levitz wanted some of the old characters back but didn't have the power to do it on his own.

Dan was granting pitches that never stopped coming in going back to 1986 because he had a special power arrangement to say yes to these things.

And he would say "yes" if it installed a character that was easier to explain to his bosses at WB because WB didn't want to have to literally adapt characters and storylines. They wanted characters who could be summed up in an image and 1-3 sentences that could be handed off to a director who never has to do research.