DC stands for Detective Comics. Saying DC comics is basically saying Detective Comics comics.

Well, it is true.

@petey_is_spidey: Yeah but detective comics or just dc dont sound as cool for a company name as dc comics does.

lol

@petey_is_spidey:

Which of these sounds better?

"I'm just going to go buy a DC."

"I'm going to buy a Detective Comic."

or

"I'm going to buy a DC comic."

touche.

Technically, it does not stand for Detective Comics.

Shortly after National was formed, they began to use the logo "Superman-DC" in reference to their two most popular titles, Superman and Detective Comics. It was a kind of branding.

This lead to individual issues being casually called "DC" comics by buyers, and eventually the group was referring to itself internally as "DC".

Later on National merged with All-American under a single National banner, and all their comics (Flash, Wonder Woman, Justice Society) now had the same "DC" branding that National's had, further cementing the name DC as a type of separate brand.

Decades later, people had just been calling the company DC so long that the original purpose of the letters as an abbreviation of Detective Comics was forgotten about. So National Publications, now publishing basically nothing but DC branded comics, just renamed themselves "DC", but since you can't trademark that they became "DC Comics".

In short, DC does not stand for Detective Comics, but the "DC" that was used on the logo that inspired the name that tied all the comics together originally did. Like how Carl's Jr. is no longer a junior version of Carl's because Carl's doesn't exist anymore, but the name was more famous than what inspired it so it stuck.

@solid_snack: did not know that cool fact

DC Comics actually refer to themselves as DC Comics tho.

Anyone else here a cinemasins ding while reading this?

I would buy DC Comics Detective Comics... lol...