10 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Static Shock

10. Static Debuted In A Subsidiary Of DC Comics, Not The Main Continuity

Between 1993 and 1997, a company called Milestone Comics was quietly turning out fantastic comics created by a collective of Black artists and writers who were dedicated to the notion of increasing minority representation in the comics industry - Hardware, Icon, Blood Syndicate, and Static.

Static was developed by writer Dwayne McDuffie, who would later become a legend in the comics world, writing for both Marvel and DC and making massive contributions to the DCAU.

The Milestone comics were a separate imprint published by DC, with no connection to the main DC world. Milestone took place in the Dakotaverse (so named after the area where most of the action occurred), which would eventually become part of the main DC universe both in comics and in animation.

Milestone shut down operations in 1997, another victim of the comics industry boom-and-bust of the early and mid nineties. However, the company didn't completely fold, switching lanes to start working on a special project in collaboration with DC's animation house: Static Shock.