2022's Superman: Space Age limited series took an innovative approach to the Man of Steel. The DC Black Label book by writer Mark Russell, artist Mike Allred, and colorist Laura Allred, re-told the story of Clark Kent/Superman but transposed into something approaching our own real world, while also foregrounding important historical events of the 1960s. The same trio is now applying this approach to the Caped Crusader in a new series, Batman: Dark Age.
DC is calling the three-issue series "an origin story like no other" and promises that it will show how Bruce Wayne, "Gotham City’s favorite delinquent son," evolves into its shadowy protector while also encountering various characters from Batman lore on his journey to become "a figure in American history fighting for justice in a world gone mad."
