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- Due to declining sales across the U.S. comics industry, and his view that his role as publisher and growing family demands interfered with his role as an artist, Lee left Image Comics and sold WildStorm to DC Comics in late 1998, enabling him to focus once again on art. The deal went into effect in January 1999.
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Nov 30, 2022 · After WildStorm’s acquisition by DC and prior to 2011’s The New 52, WildStorm was shown to exist in the DC multiverse as “Earth-50.” This would occasionally allow DC heroes to visit the WildStorm universe and vice versa, such as in Captain Atom: Armageddon.
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm or Wildstorm, is a publishing imprint and studio of American comic book publisher DC Comics. WildStorm originated in 1992 as comics creator Jim Lee's personal company in the partnership making up Image Comics. After the sale to DC in 1999, Lee remained...
In 1993, when it became clear that the names of the Image partners' personal companies would be used as brands, Lee changed Aegis to WildStorm, taken from the names of his top two titles, WildC.A.T.S. and Stormwatch. In 1999, Jim Lee and WildStorm left Image, and Lee sold WildStorm to DC Comics.
WildStorm began as a part of Image Comics with early issues published by Malibu. Their stories took place in the shared Image Universe until they were split off by the Shattered Image event in 1996. DC Comics bought WildStorm as an imprint in 1998. The company and its universe were dissolved in 2010.
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