• The "DC Explosion" and "DC Implosion" were two events in 1978 – the first an official marketing campaign, the second a sardonic reference to it – in which...
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  • produced by DC Films / DC Studios, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, and based on characters that appear in American comic books published by DC Comics...
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    1978). "DC Publishorial: Onward And Upward". DC Comics. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014 – via dialbforblog.com. "The DC Implosion", The Comics...
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  • Secret Society of Super Villains (category DC Comics supervillain teams)
    series was cancelled with issue #15 in July 1978, as part of the DC Implosion, a period when DC suddenly cancelled dozens of comics. In the decades following...
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  • and crossover event published in 1988 by DC Comics. It was plotted by Keith Giffen, and ties up a great many plotlines from various Giffen-created DC...
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  • Wendy and Richard Pini is published in Fantasy Quarterly. 1978: DC cancels over half of its titles in the so-called DC Implosion. July 1979: DC publishes...
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    Ivy King (category Explosions in 1952)
    Dispersion of Gaseous Debris from Nuclear Explosions; Philip W. Allen, Department of the Air Force, Washington, DC. Defense Technical Information Center,...
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  • Shade, the Changing Man (category DC Comics superheroes)
    and art. His series ran for eight bi-monthly issues in 1978 before its sudden cancellation in the wake of the "DC Implosion", a contraction of DC's line...
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  • Ronnie Raymond (category DC Comics superheroes)
    company-wide cutback (the "DC Implosion" ) with #5 (the first part of a multiple-issue story) the last to be distributed, and #6 included in Cancelled Comic...
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    Jenette Kahn (category DC Comics people)
    the "DC Explosion" of new titles and formats which was followed in 1978 by a company downturn referred to as the "DC Implosion. Along with editor and executive...
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    Seth Neddermeyer (category Nuclear weapons scientists and engineers)
    1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project...
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  • first African female DC superhero to star in her own series, but the first issue of her series was cancelled in the DC Implosion in 1978, never to be...
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    was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! ... The test was...
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    Washington Convention Center (category Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion)
    explosive devices at approximately 7:30 a.m. on December 18, 2004, the first implosion in the city since the Capital Garage was razed in 1974. Until 2011, the...
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  • DC Implosion of the 1970s, Duckburg Times editor Dana Gabbard dubbed this the Disney Implosion. Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Uncle Scrooge, and Donald...
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    Manhattan Project (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    Reactor and the production reactors at the Hanford Site, in which uranium was irradiated and transmuted into plutonium. The Fat Man plutonium implosion-type...
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  • Swamp Thing (category DC Comics adapted into films)
    same name. A revival had been planned for 1978, but was a victim of the DC Implosion. The new series, called The Saga of the Swamp Thing, featured an adaptation...
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    target ships was assembled in Bikini Lagoon and hit with two detonations of Fat Man plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapons of the kind dropped on Nagasaki...
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    Jack Kirby (category DC Comics people)
    company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in the European Theater in World War II, Kirby produced work for DC Comics...
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  • Firestorm (character) (category DC Comics American superheroes)
    was short-lived, canceled after issue 5, a victim of the company-wide "DC Implosion". The sixth issue was included in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade. Writer Gerry...
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    Luis Walter Alvarez (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    explosives into a much smaller and denser core, a technical challenge at the time. To create the symmetrical implosion required to compress the plutonium...
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    orchestrated an all-out and ultimately successful effort on an alternative design proposed by John von Neumann, an implosion-type nuclear weapon, which...
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  • is published. The DC Implosion takes hold, as the company cancels 4 ongoing titles, Aquaman, Claw the Unconquered, Mister Miracle, and Shade, the Changing...
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  • Nyxlygsptlnz imploded the Ormfell Building, causing those caught in the implosion to be exposed to 5th Dimensional energies. When it is discovered that...
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    Operation Greenhouse (category Explosions in 1951)
    using radiation implosion upon a cylinder. The design of the triggering system in this test was based on the one patented by Klaus Fuchs and von Neumann in...
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  • Doom Patrol (category DC Comics superhero teams)
    prior to the DC Implosion he heard no word of a new Doom Patrol series. However, the team did receive a series of guest appearances in various DC titles, such...
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    Operation Plumbbob (category Explosions in 1957)
    May 28 and October 7, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, following Project 57, and preceding Project 58/58A. The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which...
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    Capital Garage (category Buildings and structures demolished by controlled implosion)
    New York Avenue NW in downtown Washington, D.C. It was built for the Shannon & Luchs real estate firm and designed by local architect Arthur B. Heaton...
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    Little Boy (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    Boy was dropped over Hiroshima. The only test explosion of a nuclear weapon concept had been of an implosion-type device employing plutonium as its fissile...
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    Fat Man (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core. The first of that type...
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