“Presented here are pages from the highly sought after, but never published for sale, 1982 DC Comics Style Guide. These images were used for marketing and licensing while also serving as reference material for other artists.”
The “DC Bullet” logo (in use between 1977 and 2005, designed by Milton Glaser) only appears on the cover, and looking at the logo alongside the illustrations, it really doesn’t seem like a great fit.
Anyway, comic fan or not, I thought you’d appreciate a look at this piece of illustrative history.
Related is the evolution of the Batman logo.
Plastic Man had quite the strut.
Plenty more spreads in this Facebook set. Illustrations by José Luis García-López. Via Khoi.