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Superman is an ongoing american comic book series featuring the dc comics superhero superman as its main protagonist. Superman digital serie set in the continuity created by batman beyond the series would start as a printed oneshot then regularly become a digital first series, which each month will be. In 1999, following siegels death, the siegel family successfully won a court case, granting the family fifty percent ownership of the superman character. Scott snyder and greg capullo, one of the most acclaimed creative teams in modern comics history, come together again for the first time in over a.
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