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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: DC Comics |
 | | The resulting company was officially named National Comics (later National Periodical Publications), but used "DC", which stood for "Detective Comics", in its logo. |
 | | In 1976, the name of the company, now just a division of the media empire, was officially changed from National Periodicals, which nobody ever called it anyway, to DC Comics. |
 | | In 1967, DC by that time, America's largest comic book publisher was itself acquired by Kinney National Services, which changed its name to Warner Communications a year later, when it later bought the Warner Bros. movie studio. |
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