What if the Man of Steel and the Darknight Detective were the same guy?
Hey, remember Jacob Edgar, the up-and-coming artist whose amateur Batman and Superman work you fell in love with a while back?
He’s the guy who gave us gems like this:
Well, Jacob’s been pretty busy of late. He’s done some Batman work for DC (hooray!) but now he has a groovy new Kickstarter comics project called Alter Ego, with Nate Cosby, Kike J. Diaz and Rus Wooten. The gist: What if a superhero who is a bright beacon of hope by day spends his nights as a dark creature of vengeance?
Nifty, eh? Click here for more details — as well as extras by the likes of Phil Hester, Wilfredo Torres and Declan Shalvey.
Anyway, when I heard the concept of the project, I immediately thought about how often Superman and Batman have switched personas (kinda/sorta at times) since the Golden Age and came up with a 13 COVERS gallery. I do admit I cheated a bit, though: I included three Composite Superman issues just because of the imagery, as well as two times the Man of Steel and Dark Knight stepped into each other’s boots in animation.
Dig it — and, again, check out Alter Ego’s Kickstarter. It gets the official 13th Dimension Seal of Approval!
Right on.
Win Mortimer
Neal Adams
Curt Swan pencils, Stan Kaye inks
Swan and George Klein
Dick Dillin pencils, Sheldon Moldoff inks
Swan and Klein
Swan and Kaye
Superman: The Animated Series episode “Knight Time”
Rich Buckler pencils, Frank Giacoia inks
Buckler and Dick Giordano
Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode “Battle of the Superheroes!”
Keith Giffen pencils, Larry Mahlstedt inks
Jim Aparo
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March 21, 2022
Such fun Silver Age stuff! So silly, but so fun!
March 21, 2022
Superman and Batman switching bodies is a pure stroke of Silver Age genius.
March 21, 2022
I would include JLA: Foreign Bodies, a fun one-shot in which Kobra causes the Justice League to switch bodies. An entertaining modern take on a classic Silver Age plot.
April 13, 2024
Oh, fun! I remember in the 70s there was a Superman issue where Supes fills in for Batman at a Telethon, does some acrobatics and then supes’ super ventriloquism “masks a deep Kryptonian basso with the icy tones of the Caped Crusader.” Unfortunately, Supes absentmindedly keeps part of Batman’s costume on when he changes back to Clark Kent leading to some…complications! (A fun era to be reading comics!)