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- DAILY PLANET
- The Daily Planet is THE major paper in Metropolis with it's international edition being the most widely read English-language newspaper in Europe. It was founded in 1775 with a weekly Our Planet periodical and moved into it's present offices in 1938 with it's distinctive rooftop planet emblem. The paper was owned by the Lex Corp. conglomerate before being bought out by an international group put together by Perry White. The only condition imposed by the new buyers was that White had to serve as Managing Editor, a position he has held continuously since then except for the occasional illness (at one stage leading reporter Clark Kent took over the reigns).
The staff are almost as famous as the paper itself with husband and wife team of Lois Lane and Clark Kent heading the roster. Newer talent such as photographer (and former TV reporter) Jimmy Olsen and reporter Ron Troupe have added to the great paper. A slump in newspaper sales during the last decade have resulted in a number of other staff being hired including Catherine Grant (their Hollywood columnist who would go onto a TV career), Dirk Armstrong (a conservative columnist) and Simone D'Neige (who was brought in the publishers against the wishes of Perry White to add a more populist angle to the paper).
The slump in sales at the Planet continued to the point where the owners were forced to sell. The paper and staff were snapped up by Lexcorp who fired a large margin of the staff including editor Perry White and reporter Clark Kent. The remaining staff (including Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane and Dirk Armstrong) under Simone D'Neige were moved to Lexcom, a high tech infoservice centre run out of Luthor's new Hypersector.
- DAXAM AND DAXAMITES
- The inhabitants of this planet gain vast superpowers under exposure to a yellow sun much like those the Kryptonians possess. The power of an individual Daxamite may well be greater than the average Kryptonian. Daxamites have a fatal vulnerability to lead which causes blood poisoning in them. Observers from Daxam were part of the Alliance invasion of Earth but they switched sides when one of their number gave his life to save Earth, his son would become the hero Valor.
- DEATHBOLT
- A mercenary who once worked with the Ulta-Huamnite. He has popped up a number of times in various peoples employment. In his most recent appearance he tried to kill Ted Knight before the intervention of Farris Knight (Starman M*). He could project bolts of electricity and should not be confused with the assassin Bolt.
- DEPARTMENT OF EXTRANORMAL OPERATIONS (DEO)
- The Department of Extranormal Operations is the government agency formed after the appearance of Superman to deal with the regulation and control of metahumans. The DEO is a small organisation that is run as a join project by the FBI, CIA and a number of other government bodies. Its main responsibility is monitering and information gathering with respect to the metahuman community. DEO agents operate in much the say way as FBI agents do. The Director is actually a metahuman himself and was formally a member of Infinity Inc as Mister Bones.
The DEO also has a shadowy side to it that most people do not suspect, it keeps a number of facilities around the country which is uses to house young metahumans taken from their parents to be "trained" in the use of their power. The existance of one of these facilities was revealled by Young Justice when they joined up with the Secret (herself a form DEO prisioner). Investigations by Agent Chase of the DEO and other people seems to have stamped out these practices as least in the short term.
- D'NEIGE, SIMONE
- A French journalist, she taught the young Clark Kent how to make contacts. She was brought onto the Daily Planets staff to increase circulation after a slump in readership by the publishers. The Managing Editor Perry White is often a loggerheads with her attempts to inject a more sensational and populist angle into what he regards as his newspaper.
- DOC SAVAGE
- Clark Savage Jr. was with skin and hair the colour of bronze, eyes that glittered, a perfect body and a genius level mind. As an adventurer, scientist, or surgeon he is unmatched. Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze was one of the first big stars of the Pulp era. He and the Shadow served the same archtypes that Superman and Batman would later fill. He was one of the principal inspirations for both characters and has even appeared in a number of pre-Crisis DC series making him technically an inhabitant of Earth-One, it is not thought likely that he exists in the post-Zero Hour universe.
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LINK: The Doc Savage FAQ Page- DRAAGA
- Draaga was the greatest gladiator on Warworld and would fight all comers for the enjoyment on Mongul. He eventually met defeat at the hands of Superman. However the Kryptonian would not kill his opponent. Draaga then set out on a quest to force his opponent to do the honorable thing and kill him. In due course he allied himself with Brainiac (who was then controlling Warworld) and joined in an attack on Earth in the hope of making Superman kill him. He was greatly impressed by the determination and heart of the younger Supergirl (even to the extent of awaking his own heart) and gave his life to stop one of Brainiac's weapons.
- DUBBILEX
- Dubbilex is a DNAlien created from human DNA by Project Cadmus is their exploration of the human genome. He is humanoid with a rocklike grey skin and small horns. He has become a high ranking member of the Project in the capacity as Head of Genetics, it is his job as a telepath to monitor the Project and watch for the hidden research that has caused problems for the Project in the past. For a time he acted as Superboy's guardian while he was based in Hawaii.
- DUMP BUNNY
- Daughter of Princess Power of the Freedom Brigade, she joined the Inferior Five with other second generation heroes. Her half-sister is the detective Angel O'Day.
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