Batman / Superman #16 [Greg Smallwood Variant Cover]

(May 2021)

The World of Tomorrow!; The World of the Knight! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman and Robin; Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Gene Luen Yang (credited)

Pencils

Ivan Reis (credited)

Inks

Danny Miki (credited)

Colors

Sabine Rich (credited)

Letters

Saida Temofonte (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; the Unknown Wizard [Lex Luthor]; Martha Wayne (alternate reality); Bruce Wayne (alternate reality); Thomas Wayne (alternate reality, flashback, death); Alfred Pennyworth (alternate reality); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Martha Wayne (flashback, death); Thomas Wayne (flashback, death); Spider Lady; The Joker; Penguin; Rudy Jones [Parasite]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lex Luthor (Arkham Asylum warden); Alfred Pennyworth; Kal-El (alternate reality, infant, skeleton)

Synopsis

In Metropolis, Superman battles the Unknown Wizard, who is really Lex Luthor, who attacks the unveiling of a new power source that was developed by Dr. Martha Wayne. Meanwhile in Gotham City, Batman and Robin battle the Spider Lady who helps the Joker and Penguin to escape from Arkham, and who warns Batman about the shady activities of Arkham's warden, who has in his possession a rocket ship from Krypton with a dead infant skeleton inside.

Reprints

• in Batman / Superman: The Archive of Worlds (DC, 2021 series) (2021 [February 2022])

Indexer Notes

Story is told in parallel sequences with separate titles, with the Superman sequence at the top of the pages and the Batman sequence at the bottom of the pages until the final pages where the sequences combine into each other. Sequences are in the style of old movies.