I came across this image from "The Phantom Eye of Gotham City" (Detective Comics #192), showing a boy reading a Batman magazine (see the attached image). It occurred to me that it was quite possible a superhero would have people making (presumably unofficial) comics about them.
Are there any other examples in the DC universe of this happening?
This Reddit post mentions a few other examples.
- Barry takes on the Flash name because he's inspired by the Jay Garrick Flash Comics he read as a kid.
- Alternate universes within the DC multiverse appear in the form of comic books on others, so events on Earth 0 (the main DCU) will appear as comics on other Earths. Most notably this includes Earth 33 -- which is 'our' Earth, the real world -- meaning that all the books we read are canonically out there in the multiverse. Maybe a multiversal traveller swung by and picked up a copy of World's Finest #153?
- During the JLI era in the 80s, it was established that a line of promotional comic books covering the exploits of the League were being published. These didn't actually parallel the comics we read, but in principle they could have coincidentally included that panel
- DC does have Blaze Comics that may print fictional stories of DC characters besides just Booster Gold.
And that thread came up due to a Nightwing issue where Barbara is wearing a T-shirt with the famous "Batman slapping Robin" meme.
In Alan Moore's Watchmen, published by DC, several characters of which appear in the limited series Doomsday Clock from DC's main canon, the heroine Silk Spectre (the mother, not the daughter) appears in ribald and pornographic and most definitely unofficial Tijuana bible-type comic books. See excerpt below:
