Warner Bros. Consumer Products has taken over most of global publishing licensing for DC Comics. DC will continue to control, from its New York Office, global subsidiary rights for those companies publishing DC’s core comics and graphic novels in other languages, but WBCP will be in charge of licensing everything else to third party publishers including children’s books based on DC characters, novelizations, coloring books, art books, script books, how-to-draw books, and educational volumes.

 

This latest announcement extends the “synergistic” move by Warner Bros. to exert more control over its “sister” company DC Comics.  This concerted effort at integration has included the shifting of DC’s non-publishing jobs to the West Coast (see “DC Move West to Affect 80”), and the complete subsuming of DC’s toy, apparel, and video game licensing activities under the Warner Bros. Consumer Products umbrella (see “DC Executive Shakeup Continues”).