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Publication history of DC Comics crossover events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7258050 ↗
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DC Comics has produced many crossover stories combining characters from different series of comics. Some of these are set in the fictional DC Universe, or any number of settings within the DC Multiverse.

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Pre-Crisis

Post-Crisis

Post-Flashpoint

Post-DC Rebirth

Post-Dark Nights: Metal

Post-Dark Nights: Death Metal

Post-Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths

Note: All bolded events are considered "company-wide" or are major events which affect the DC universe.

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This entry incorporates text from “Publication history of DC Comics crossover events” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.