Superman & Batman: Generations
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Superman & Batman: Generations Superman & Batman: Generations II Superman & Batman: Generations III |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date |
(I) January - March 1999 (II) August - November 2001 (III) March 2003 - February 2004 |
| No. of issues |
(I and II) 4 (III) 12 |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | John Byrne |
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| Generations | ISBN |
| Generations II | ISBN |
Superman & Batman: Generations is the umbrella title of three Elseworlds comic book limited series published by DC Comics in the United States, written and illustrated by John Byrne. A major concept of the series is the avoidance of so-called comic book time; it places Superman, Batman, and the other members of the DC Universe in a single timeline, showing the characters aging and being replaced by their progeny.
Superman & Batman: Generations was published as a four-issue limited series in prestige format from January to April 1999. It was later collected as a trade paperback () in 1999.
Superman & Batman: Generations 2, like its predecessor, is a 4-issue prestige format limited series that ran from October 2001 to January 2002; it dealt with other DC heroes in chapters set between the times of the stories in the first series. It was also collected as a trade paperback () in 2003.
Superman & Batman: Generations 3 is a twelve part limited series. Unlike the previous two series, it was published in standard format, and ran from March 2003 to February 2004. No trade paperback has been published for this series.
A fourth series was planned but cancelled when DC scaled back the production of Elseworlds books as of February 1st 2017 nothing else has come of the project
Generations follows Superman and Batman from the beginning of their careers to the far future. Each issue contains two stories; each story takes places ten years after the previous one.
The second series, rather than using a decade jump between stories as in the original, takes jumps of 11 years. Starting in 1942, each issue again tells two stories, ending in the year 2019 at the end of the fourth issue. While the first series focused on the Batman and Superman families, the second features other characters from the DC Universe, especially from the Justice Society and Justice League.
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