DC Comics revives letter columns

DC Comics will reinstate the letter columns in its monthly DC Universe titles.

The publisher announced on The Source that fans can submit their letters on www.dcletterspage.com or by mail.

"One of the reasons why we're doing it is because the fans have been asking for it, to be quite honest with you," DC co-publisher Dan DiDio told CBR. "When we were rethinking our books and going to the $2.99 strategy, we wanted to make sure that even though the page count went down to 20 pages for the books themselves, there could still be more content or things people could enjoy in the monthly comics.

"One of those things we went back to was the letters pages. We looked at it and discussed it in terms of coming up with a formula that made the letters pages feel current. We didn't want them talking about things that were three or four months old but things that were just coming out.

"We're going to be putting a system in place this month to gather information, comments and more to put that sense of community back in our books again."

DC letters pages were phased out in 2002 in favour of online message boards and other, web-based forums.