Superman & Batman: Generations III #9

Superman & Batman: Generations III #9 cover

Date:

November 2003

Title:

“Century 27: A Soldier’s Story”
(Cover Title: “The 27th Century!”)

Plot:

In the year 2925, the teenage Lana Lang and Lois Lane reappear in the Time Sphere.

Only scenes featuring Legion of Super-Heroes characters are dealt with here.

Credits:

John Byrne (Writer) • John Byrne (Artist) • John Byrne (Letterer) • J.B. [John Byrne] / Alex Sinclair (Colorist / Separator) • Ivan Cohen (Associate Editor) • Mike Carlin (Editor) • John Byrne (Cover)


CHANGE HISTORY

Date of Change
Content of Change
12/22/03
Posted
12/23/03
Tracking corrections

Character and Object Tracking

   

Name

Previous Appearance

Next Appearance

Supporting Characters

Lana Lang

Previous Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #7

Next Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #11
Lois Lane
Previous Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #7
Next Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #11

Locations

Smallville (2925) (interior)
Previous Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #7
Next Legion appearance:
      Superman & Batman: Generations III #11

Technology

Legion Time Sphere
Superman & Batman: Generations III #7 Superman & Batman: Generations III #11
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Analysis Notes

General Only page 22 is covered here.  Lana and Lois were last seen in the time stream around 2525, in Saturn Girl’s Time Sphere.
This is an Elseworlds story.  Continuity is only tracked within this “universe”, that depicted in the three (to date) Generations series.
Each issue of this series occurs about 100 years after the previous one, tied to year xx25.  The theory behind that being that Superman was 29 years old in his first appearance in 1939 (29 being his stated age throughout the Silver Age), and thus 1925 is when he was 15, the right age for joining the Legion.  The last page of this issue occurs in 2925.
22:1 “Ten minutes”: about a minute per century.
Lois is correct: it was not her doing.  Per Superman & Batman: Generations III #4 and 11, the Time Sphere automatically returned to the 30th century when it could no longer detect Saturn Girl’s life signs and thus assumed that she was dead.
22:2
In this continuity, apparently the time stream isn’t a beautiful rainbow of colors, or at least Brainiac 5 didn’t design the time bubble to allow riders to see such.
22:3
The quote is a reference to The Wizard of Oz, of course.  But as well, the girls left Smallville, Kansas in 1925.  This is Smallville in the 30th century, so they actually are still in Kansas.
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Appearance Counts

Character Name

Cover

Panels / Speaking

Supporting Characters
Lana Lang 3 / 2
Lois Lane
3 / 3
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