The DC Comics Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded

35 Pages·2008·14.59 MB·English

by  Scott Beatty, Michael Teitelbaum, Robert Greenburger and Daniel Wallace

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD

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‘open only to you and other worthies who have approached
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secret knowiedge, We mastered it as we grew, and delved
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sides to his search, so we hac to bald cur own,
bang each inconsistency faved with pasion
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Enjoy!
Paul Levite
President and Publishes

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