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** You can do the same for ''The [[Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe]]''. Take a look at the Book of the Dead and Inactive from the initial print and see who's still dead...

* From Amazing World of DC Comics, July 1976, describing the Great Disaster at DC Comics:

** That's just [[I Want My Jetpack]], right? Well, not quite. 1986 was the turning point for the [[Dark Age]] of Comics. And DC comics from October 1986 include ''Man of Steel #1'', which began the modern revamping of Superman, and ''Batman #400'', which was the last pre-revamp Batman. Depending on whether you think the [[Dark Age]] was a great disaster, this may be amusingly prophetic....

* A 1997 [[Justice League of America]] story had the JLA take on a mad scientist who had created a "luck machine" that altered probability in his favor, letting him win the lottery, the Nobel Prize, and become President of the USA in short order. The JLA confront him in the Oval Office and destroy his device, but when reality reorders itself, the President who thanks the team isn't the right President either, and the team realizes that reality is still broken. What's so funny about this? The "wrong" President looks ''just like Sarah Palin''.

* On the back cover of the ''[[Batman|Batman: A Death in the Family]]'' trade paperback, in which Jason Todd, the then-current Robin, was killed off, then-Batman editor Denny O'Neil jokingly said, "It would take a sleazy stunt to bring (Jason) back", though he did admit that he voted for Jason to live. In 2005, Jason was brought [[Back From the Dead]].

** Similar [[Word of God]] tripping-up occurs in the afterword to ''[[The Flash|The Return of Barry Allen]]'', a storyline in which Barry Allen does not actually return (yet). Mark Waid hyperbolically describes being driven up a bell tower with a rifle out of sheer exasperation at people asking him to bring back Barry.

* The [[Green Lantern]] story arc, [[Sinestro Corps War]], features a rooftop fight with the sound effect "eepaa". The sound effect's origin? A one off gag in [[The Simpsons]] Movie.

** Sadly, no vats of acid were involved.

* The original [[Batwoman]], Kathy Kane, was introduced in the '50s in response to [[Moral Guardian|Dr. Frederic Wertham's]] allegations that Batman and Robin were [[Ho Yay|lovers]]. The current version of Batwoman, Kate Kane, is a lesbian.