History ComicBook / SupermanSpaceAge

* Suspiciously Similar Substitute: a multiversal council of Brainiacs takes the place of Monitor leading up to the arrival of the Anti-Monitor, with allusions given that their is a "final battle" being prepared towards the ending against The Anti-Monitor Threat.
* Canon Discontinuity: Space Age was once supposed to be a canon story about Superman on Earth-0 or Prime Earth, and his debut in the 1960s and his career leading up to the mid-80s, as part of a larger reboot that would have it so that Superman's rocket landed on earth in 1938 and through "temporal compressions" allow Superman to have a career all the way to our modern age of Superheroes. This reboot was called 5G, but it's cancellation led to a change of plans and a repurposing of Space Age into a standalone story not connected to the world of Prime Earth.

* AdaptationalLateAppearance: The Joker is normally one of Batman's earliest enemies to show up, having debuted only a year after the Dark Knight, in the first issue of his ongoing series. In this series, the Joker doesn't appear until the 1980s, two decades after Batman showed up on the scene.

''Superman: Space Age'' is a Franchise/{{Superman}} miniseries published by Creator/DCComics under their Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint. It was written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Michael Allred, Laura Allred, and Dave Sharpe.

''Superman: Space Age'' is a Franchise/{{Superman}} miniseries published by Creator/DCComics under their Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint. It was written by Mark Russell and illustrated by Michael Allred and Laura Allred.

''Superman: Space Age'' is a Franchise/{{Superman}} miniseries published by Creator/DCComics under their Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint.

Followed by ''Batman: Dark Age'' in 2024.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Superman and Batman are never as close here as they are in the comics and most other adaptations. Notably, despite both being active for over 20 years, Superman never learns that Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, [[spoiler:even after Batman’s death.]]

* PragmaticEvil: Brainiac will refrain from destroying Earths if he believes it will help his ultimate goal of stopping the Anti-Monitor. When Superman then exploits the portal Brainiac set for him (and only him) to [[spoiler: instead transport humanity’s collective DNA signature to another Earth to be reborn]], Brainiac and his variants decide it isn’t worth the expenditure of resources to stop it and let Superman have his way.

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: Superman eventually puts his super-intelligence to work to cure every disease on the planet and [[spoiler: transfer most of the humanity’s DNA signatures to another universe where that universe’s Superman can use them to restart humanity on that universe’s Earth.

* BiggerBad: The inevitable end of the universe at the hands of [[spoiler: the Anti-Monitor]] looms heavy over the series though the heroes [[spoiler: never face him and are powerless to stop him]].

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Lex Luthor is ultimately more of a Batman enemy than a foe of Superman. He competes with Bruce Wayne at the beginning of the story, and is sent to prison before Superman becomes publically known. [[spoiler:When he’s released 20 years later, he focused his efforts on trying to absorb Wayne Enterprises, dismissing Otis’ idea to use Kryptonite against Superman, and never directly confronts the Man of Steel once in this story.]]

* NobleDemon: Brainiac, of all entities, is concerned with saving the multiverse by extracting all the worlds' best heroes in a chance at stopping the Crisis. When Superman and the League fight him to a stalemate, he withdraws, and decides not to destroy Earth because it would lessen Superman's chances of joining him.

* ChekhovsGun: Flash's stack of bombs he uses to practice defusing with help take out Brianiac's ship.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Lex cements his victory over Batman, [=WayneCorp=], and the world the day the world ends]]. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler:the fact that he refused Superman's DNA extraction means ''nothing'' of him remains on the new Earth]].

* ChekhovsGunman: Brainiac shows our Superman a world that had already destroyed itself, leaving only its Superman, in an attempt to get him to join him. [[spoiler:Superman decides to give that world renewed hope by transporting its inhabitants' DNA structures there]].

Starting in the early 1960's and continuing to 1985, the year of ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths, the story is a PeriodPiece exploring Superman and Batman as they wrestle with the hardships of saving humanity, as well as what that ''means'' as the world both changes around them and stubbornly stays the same.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Lex cements his victory over Batman, [=WayneCorp=[, and the world the day the world ends]]. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler:the fact that he refused Superman's DNA extraction means ''nothing'' of him remains on the new Earth]].

* ChehkovsGuman: Brainiac shows our Superman a world that had already destroyed itself, leaving only its Superman, in an attempt to get him to join him. [[spoiler:Superman decides to give that world renewed hope by transporting its inhabitants' DNA structures there]].

''Superman: Space Age'' is a ComicBook/{{Superman}} miniseries published by Creator/DCComics under their Creator/DCBlackLabel imprint.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Lex cements his victory over batman, [=WayneCorp=[, and the world the day the world ends]]. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler:the fact that he refused Superman's DNA extraction means ''nothing'' of him remains on the new Earth]].