Harvey Pekar maintained, “Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.” The potential of that sacred combination and the history of DC Comics began nearly a century ago. In 1934 an enterprising Capricorn (aren’t they all) and pulp writer by the name of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson started National Allied Publications, the company that would become DC Comics and go on to beget such super hero luminaries as Batman and Superman.