*Comics are the looking glass of culture, a fun-house mirror exaggerating the image but capturing the essence. Marv Wolfman and George Perez aren't just consolidating the diverse characters and worlds of fifty years of comics in History of the DC Universe, they are also providing a retrospective of our own changing culture. Here is a brightly-colored newsreel of America since the late thirties: Captain Marvel is the image of our naivete and pre-war concerns; the Dark Knight is a hard-edged reflection of the complexity of the Eighties. It is our history, intricate, embattled, strange and baffling - but somehow made comprehensible by Wolfman and Perez. *Source: inside dust jacket