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Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity

comic book limited series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4869335 ↗
Source-derived summary

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity is a three-issue comic book limited series published by the publishing company DC Comics in 2003. Written and drawn by Matt Wagner, the series focused on the first meeting and alliance between DC's Trinity: Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, regarded as DC's most popular characters. The story takes place before the formation of the Justice League. The series was collected as a hardback in 2004 and eventually a softcover trade paperback by DC Comics in 2005.

Overview

The story establishes the first meeting between The World's Finest Trinity: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. When Batman's greatest nemesis, Ra's al Ghul, recruits Bizarro and the Amazon warrior Artemis to aid him in his plan to create global chaos, the Dark Knight Detective suddenly finds himself working with the Man of Steel and the Amazon Princess. Looking to thwart the madman's plot to simultaneously destroy all satellite communications as well as all of the world's oil reserves, Earth's greatest heroes reluctantly band together. But if Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are to have any hope of stopping Ra's nuclear missile assault, they will first need to overcome their own biases and reconcile their differing philosophies.

Plot

Issue 1

In keeping up his secret identity, Clark Kent misses the train to take him to work, something he intentionally does three times a week. A gunshot is heard from that train and Clark appears as Superman and finds the victim: the train's driver.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity” as comic book limited series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Batman, Superman and Wonder can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as comic book limited series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4869335. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity primary sources, Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity archive and Batman research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.