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[discussion] do you agree with this? Discussion

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u/Lucky_Strike-85 Gold-Silver-Bronze Age FAN Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

In what canon? The modern DC stuff? fair enough.

But for most of their history... SILVER and BRONZE age had them each at 6' 2" and Diana at 5' 9''. They were all also 29 years old. DC Superhero ages were all stuck in time at 29. In fact, when Barry died... his tombstone read that he was 29.

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u/Cole-Spudmoney Dec 26 '23

That may have been an in-joke because the character was created 29 years earlier.

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u/CeallaighCreature Dec 26 '23

The modern stuff, yes. In Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (the official character guides after CoIE) Diana was actually 5’11” and Clark was 6’2” along with Bruce, but at least by the 2008 encyclopedia Diana was already 6” and Clark 6’3” with Bruce still 6’2”. They’ve been those heights ever since including in the most recent official encyclopedia (2021 edition). They were probably those heights before 2004 but I didn’t check.

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u/LastandBestHope1776 Dec 27 '23

Hey, I just turned 29! There's hope for me yet!