Wise Guy Inc.

Wise Guy Inc. is a comic book company that exists in numerous realities in the multiverse. They are well known for publishing comics covering the exploits of the superheroes of the universes that include them, most prominently Earth-1. Little do they realize that what is fiction for their realities is history and current events for the universes in which they take place.

Known Comic Titles

 * Sleuth Stories: A parody of DC's "Detective Comics", and accordingly features mostly street-level superheroes like the Golden Age's Phantasm, Night Shadow, and Masquerade, and the Modern Age's Night Shadow II and sidekick Blackwing.
 * New York World's Fair Comics: A fictionalized version of the real life comic of the same name. First appearance of the Golden Age Night Shadow.
 * Adventure Comics: A parody of DC's "Action Comics", and is the main comic to feature American Son (himself a parody of both Superman and Captain America).
 * Tales of the Challengers: Comic series featuring the Challengers of Evil
 * Epic Oriental Tales / Land of Blood and Tears: A comic series focusing on the adventures of WWII Superhero Gwei Long ("Devil Dragon"), later renamed in favor of a more tasteful and less offensive title. These comics, after making a shift to chiefly black and white art save for red blood effects, were noted to be particularly graphic and adult, but also celebrated for the same reason.
 * The Dangerous Deviant: Comic series focusing on the 1960s Superhero Deviant.
 * Wrath of Amon: Comic series focusing on the 1960s Superhero "Amon"
 * Patriot Stories: Comic series focusing on various patriotic American Superheroes, specifically the multiple bearers of the Liberator identity.
 * The Super Fighting Robot: Comic series focusing on the 1960s robot superhero "Mecha-Man"
 * The Good Samaritans: Comics focusing on the more light-hearted and idealistic superheroes of Earth-4 rather than those of Earth-1.

Business
Wise Guy Inc. is generally a fairly successful comic book company, their products being sold in stores across the United States and even in some countries outside of it. They have also enjoyed royalties involving merchandise involving their comic's characters, mostly action figures but also some movies too (which take place on yet another Earth in the multiverse). Attempt to build a "cinematic universe" featuring these characters have stalled, encountering many roadblocks, but eventually the various standalone films were revealed to have all taken place in the same continuity after all, allowing Wise Guy Inc. to, sort of, have their own movie universe after all. Unfortunately, the company is often given only a small percentage of the profits made from these films, with the film distributors pocketing the bulk of the cash.