DC character debuts
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Order by the cover-date year of each character's first comic appearance. Drag or tap it onto the line
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DC character debuts
Order by the cover-date year of each character's first comic appearance. You place all 39 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
39
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the DC character debuts timeline
Every card is a DC character, with a quick line on who they are printed below, and you sort them by the cover-date year of their first comic appearance. You start with one character on the line and their year visible. Each new card needs a gap: earlier, later or in between. A right answer reveals the year and the card stays; a wrong answer still sends it to the correct spot and costs one of three lives.
The characters cover the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the darker and stranger books that followed and a few modern additions. Watch for heroes who share a name, because different people carried the same mantle at different times, and the description is how you tell them apart. The early years are packed, with a flood of costumed heroes and their enemies arriving in a short span.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 39 cards you might be dealt, with 11 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Superman Kal-El of Krypton
- Lois Lane Daily Planet reporter
- Batman Bruce Wayne, Gotham's Dark Knight
- Lex Luthor Superman's archenemy
- Alan Scott Green Lantern with a magic ring
- Jay Garrick Speedster in a winged helmet
- Wonder Woman Diana, Amazon princess
- Aquaman Arthur Curry, king of the seas
- Black Adam Teth-Adam, ancient Egyptian champion
- Black Canary Dinah, martial artist
- Krypto Superman's dog
- Barry Allen The Flash, struck by lightning
- Brainiac Alien android who shrank Kandor
- Hal Jordan Green Lantern, test pilot
- Gorilla Grodd Telepathic gorilla
- Sinestro Renegade with a yellow ring
- The Atom Ray Palmer, shrinking physicist
- Reverse-Flash Eobard Thawne, speedster from the future
- Beast Boy Garfield Logan, green animal shapeshifter
- Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) Commissioner Gordon's daughter
- Darkseid Tyrant of Apokolips
- Cyborg Victor Stone, half man, half machine
- Starfire Koriand'r, Tamaranean princess
- Lobo Czarnian bounty hunter
- John Constantine Occult detective from Liverpool
- Booster Gold Glory-seeking hero from the future
- Dream Morpheus, lord of the Dreaming
- Doomsday Bone-spiked monster from Krypton
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