Welcome to a special ongoing look at Warner Bros. and how it's handled its DC Comics properties. It's going to be a weekly, ongoing miniseries here at LRM. This first entry will offer a bit of history, as we build towards what's happening in the present day DCEU. We'll explore all of the interesting parallels and forks in the road that brought us to where the DCEU is today. Humble Beginnings...Long before comic book movies dominated Hollywood; Long before comic books were looked upon as anything other than campy, youth-oriented entertainment; Long before Hollywood titans like Disney and 20th Century got into the business of building worlds out of superhero titles, a struggling film company merged with another conglomerate in a seemingly innocuous merger transaction.