DC Super Friends is a comic book tie-in to Fisher-Price's Imaginext DC Super Friends toyline.
Written by Sholly Fisch and illustrated by Dario Brizuela as well as J. Bone, Scott Shaw, Mike Kazelah and Stewart McKenny, this ongoing series started publication in May 2008 and concerned the adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), Aquaman and the Flash as they'd battle various DC supervillains and provide the reader with fun activities, crafts they can make and lessons on how to be a good and responsible person.
Lasting 29 issues, the comic ended publication in September 2010. Has no connection to Superfriends aside from the shared title and being a DC Comics media aimed at younger audiences.
This comic contains examples of:
- Adaptation Dye-Job: The Green Lantern Ch'p is depicted in the 14th issue as having gray fur, when the mainstream comics typically depicted him with brown fur.
- Bird-Poop Gag: The 14th issue has a joke about the Flash being unable to prevent seagulls from pooping on him while he's rendered motionless.
- Birthday Episode: One of the issues is set on Batman's birthday, with the team setting up an elaborate stunt for a surprise party involving a villain who turns out to be Robin kidnapping them.
- Christmas Episode:
- The tenth issue takes place during the Christmas season and has the Super Friends having to stop Dr. Light's scheme to ruin the holidays for everyone.
- Another Christmas story occurs in the 22nd issue, where a wheelchair-bound girl named Ellie ends up helping the Super Friends defeat Amos Fortune after the heroes lighten up her holiday by assuring her that her inability to walk doesn't have to prevent her from making great achievements.
- Comic-Book Adaptation: A comic based on the DC Super Friends toyline by Imaginext.
- Continuity Cameo: The fifth issue has Gorilla Grodd use a machine that turns humans into apes and vice versa. Lesser-known DC comics characters Detective Chimp and Sam Simeon appear as the first noteworthy human victims of Grodd's machine.
- End-of-Series Awareness: While the 29th issue leaves the door open for more stories by having "The End" end with a question mark, there are some clear indications that this issue is the last.
- Hawkman appears in a background cameo where he grouses about never appearing in the comic.
- The part with the issue's secret coded message, which typically gives a description of next issue's story when decoded, has Wonder Woman telling the reader "May Hera guide you until we meet again". The message itself when deciphered reads "Thanks for reading...and being a Super Friend!"
- The final page features a drawing of the comic's production staff accompanied by a banner bearing the message "Have a Great Con & Farewell from the Super Friends Team".
- Transformation Conventions: One issue had the JLA turned into various non-human primates. Superman became a gorilla (which is the strongest primate), Batman became a gibbon (one of the more agile primates), Green Lantern became a chimp (which uses tools), Flash became a patas monkey (which is the fastest primate), Aquaman became a proboscis monkey (which swims), and Wonder Woman became a bonobo (which is peaceful).
- Waxing Lyrical: The 16th issue has some schoolchildren recite the lyrics to Alice Cooper's "School's Out".
