Together, Superman and Batman’s friendship was seen as the bedrock of DC’s world of heroes. Crime, no matter how hard it fought back, couldn’t stand a chance. Superman had the supreme power and Batman had the supreme intellect. These happy images of Superman and Batman (and Robin) hanging out, competing at sports and working together informed decades of what became one of the strongest friendships in comics. Since 1941, readers would see the two heroes smiling side-by-side on the cover and in the pages of World’s Finest Comics. They’re light and dark, natural opposites, and as such, it’s unsurprising that they’d be at odds.īut for those who had read DC comic books for the fifty years prior to Dark Knight Returns, a depiction of the Superman/Batman relationship as anything other than the best of friends was downright shocking. Batman represents striking vengeance in the night, combining his vast intelligence and willpower to wage war on his city’s criminals. Superman is all about bringing justice in the sunlight of day with reassuring power and a welcoming smile. The Historyįor those who may have grown up in a post- Dark Knight world, the idea of Superman and Batman being at odds and even coming to blows strikes about as natural as everything else they’ve done. We’re talking about the epic conclusion to the seminal 1986 Frank Miller comic book classic-the fight between Superman and Batman at the very end of The Dark Knight Returns. It’s been referenced, applauded and adapted again and again over decades. It’s the fight that stretched each character’s combat potential to its very limits. It’s the fight that has often defined the very nature of DC’s two best-known heroes for a generation.
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