Superman/Batman #64 is an issue of the series Superman/Batman (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 2009. It was published on September 23, 2009.
Synopsis for "Prelude to the Big Noise: Three Months Away"
Several millennia ago a battle wages in space between a Kryptonian battleship and another Kryptonian craft, the Grand Majesty. The Grand Majesty has been hi-jacked by aliens and the two ships are on a collision course until the aliens activate the Neo-Recombinant Drive, which causes them to disappear, though the question is not where they went but when due to the properties of the drive. In the present Batman discovers the ship in space and travels there to investigate. He stumbles across some Kryptonian battle robots which live up to their name and attack. Superman arrives and after discovering the origin of the craft utters a code word that deactivates the robots. The two continue to investigate the ship and Superman discovers the bodies of the crew, which hits him hard. He reveals that the ship is from an era long before his father and the two men come to the conclusion that the ship was boarded by aliens which assumed command. A single escape pod was jettisoned though it doesn't look like a member of the crew was the one to activate it.
Superman explains that while he has seen a fair number of artifacts from his home world this ship is different. Seeing their fate and his inability to do anything about it has upset him greatly. Batman and Superman, left with more questions than answers, wonder where the pod escaped to.
Appearing in "Prelude to the Big Noise: Three Months Away"
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Other Characters:
- Kryptonians
- Admiral Mox-Ur (Deceased)
- Captain Val-R
- Ensign Pag-Ra
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Vehicles:
- Bat-Rocket
- Kryptonian spacecraft
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in Superman/Batman: Big Noise, Superman/Batman Vol. 6 and Superman/Batman Omnibus Vol. 2.
- DC Nation features the DC San Diego Comic-Con schedule.
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