In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to November 1998 to see the launch of a fascinating narrative experiment starring Superman and Batman.Anniversaries are tricky things in comic books because, for the most part, readers want something NEW, they don’t want to spend time celebrating the past of a character, especially once a character has been around for sixty plus years, since there’s often little connecting a character today to the version of the character from sixty plus years ago (although some characters have stronger throughlines than others. For instance, Spider-Man’s origin still feels as fresh today as it did over 60 years ago).1998 marked the 60th anniversary of Superman’s debut in 1938’s Action Comics #1, and 1999 would mark the 60th anniversary of Batman’s debut in 1939’s Detective Comics #27, so Byrne’s concept was to take 1939 as the starting point, and then tell stories featuring Superman and Batman as if they were aging in real time, beginning with 1939…
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to November 1998 to see the launch of a fascinating narrative experiment starring Superman and Batman.
Anniversaries are tricky things in comic books because, for the most part, readers want something NEW, they don’t want to spend time celebrating the past of a character, especially once a character has been around for sixty plus years, since there’s often little connecting a character today to the version of the character from sixty plus years ago (although some characters have stronger throughlines than others. For instance, Spider-Man’s origin still feels as fresh today as it did over 60 years ago).
1998 marked the 60th anniversary of Superman’s debut in 1938’s Action Comics #1, and 1999 would mark the 60th anniversary of Batman’s debut in 1939’s Detective Comics #27, so Byrne’s concept was to take 1939 as the starting point, and then tell stories featuring Superman and Batman as if they were aging in real time, beginning with 1939…
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