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00:00Hi, I'm Mark Waid, DC's unofficial historian.

00:07I'm here today to talk about DC's March to 100 initiative with their official historian, Benjamin McClare.

00:12Benjamin?

00:13Hi everybody, yes, DC turned 90 years old this year with the anniversary of the release of our very first comic, New Fun Number One.

00:21So on this March to 100, we're going to be celebrating every decade of DC history,

00:25and we're going to start really with our most important decade where we created superheroes and the golden age of comics.

00:31So to do that, we're going to go into the DC archives, the secret DC cave,

00:35and we're going to take a look at some of the hidden treasures there that celebrate the first decade of DC's history.

00:41This way.

00:43Ah, here we are.

00:46It's like my home away from home.

00:48I think this was your home at one point.

00:49It was my home at one point. I was the librarian here in the late 80s.

00:52Just the, I know, just the smell. Just that.

00:55The smell of what's called paper.

00:57There's something about it.

00:58Yeah.

00:59So the backbone of the DC Comics library are still these.

01:02These bound editions carry everything from 1935 all the way to present day, right?

01:08And what's great about that is that the old masters and the new masters are side by side,

01:12so your work is here with Jerry Siegel.

01:15They're all there as part of a continuous story and lineage.

01:18That's just it. The whole lineage of DC Comics is in this room.

01:21Since we're going to New York Comic Con again as DC for the first time in several years,

01:26Yes.

01:26I think everyone in Gotham City should be really proud to see a copy of the very first son of Gotham.

01:33That is amazing.

01:34Detective Comics number 27, the very first appearance of Batman,

01:37and a six-page story called The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.

01:40Here's an early thing where Superman, the power in iconography, is used for charitable purposes.

01:45There was a fire, I believe, in the Cleveland Hospital. Is that right?

01:48And then we produced a special charity comic for it.

01:51The character Superman is so important that he transcends fiction.

01:56This is the first appearance of the Cheetah,

01:58who is by far the predominant Wonder Woman villain, her arch nemesis.

02:03And this is from 1943?

02:06That's correct.

02:07These characters continue to thrive 90 years later,

02:11and that really speaks to the power of these early golden age DC characters.

02:15Not only do superheroes exist because of what DC did,

02:18they continue to exist because DC never stopped publishing superheroes.

02:23That's right.

02:23Talk about this for a sec.

02:24Okay.

02:25All right, this was a Saturday Night Live sketch.

02:27Bill Murray as Superman, Dan Aykroyd as The Flash.

02:30We have a photo from the day that Muhammad Ali came to the DC offices

02:34and read the giant-sized Superman vs. Muhammad Ali for the first time.

02:38So we have another form of royalty.

02:40So many people here at DC and around the world are DC fans because of Batman the Animated Series.

02:45Absolutely.

02:46This is signed by Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy, who've made lasting contributions.

02:51And the voices of Batman and the Joker, yes, this is beautiful stuff.

02:55Let's talk about this.

02:57Oh, sure.

02:57My favorite image of Superman.

02:59The pictures I saw from the golden age, he is sitting there in this painting,

03:03looking over Saul Harrison and Jerry Donafell, the entire DC crew of the 1940s.

03:10There are pictures of the DC editorial group and the publishing group of the 1940s with the original painting.

03:15My predecessor brought it in.

03:16It was the very first thing he put up in the library in Burbank.

03:20When we moved here, I hand-delivered it and made sure it was the very first thing we put up here.

03:24That's great.

03:25It may be a copy, but it represents the lineage of Superman that goes back for us from the very beginning.

03:30Thank you very much for joining us on this tour of the DC Library and the DC Archives,

03:34part of DC's March to 100 initiative, where we're honoring each decade of DC publishing

03:40in the next 10 years going forward.

03:42I'm Mark Waid.

03:43I'm Benjamin LeClaire.

03:44Mark, thank you so much for being here and all your contributions.

03:47Thank you all of you at home for continuing to read DC Comics and for all of you at New York Comic Con.

03:52Thank you for supporting comics in person.

04:00Thank you for joining us on this tour of DC Comics.

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