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Bwburke94 wrote: As I said, the Cushing films, at the time of their creation, were not intended to take place within the DWU. I doubt a later collection would be able to retroactively give it DWU status, but it's not my call in the end. I don't really think that matters. It is an official take on the character, and the character is used in the book, suggesting that people using the cast for a story had a contrete decision on what he was meant to be.

The only reason I could think of this not being absolute proof is that it's not quite concrete enough. Although I suppose it's only a matter of time before Titan comics does something with this...