The World's Finest Comic
Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film inspired Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to develop Batman: The Animated Series. The Batman Adventures was the tie-in comic to that series.
As if that weren't enough, Welsh Publishing launched Superman & Batman Magazine #1 in the Fall of 1993. The magazine featured an interview with Superman family editor Mike Carlin. Dennis O'Neil and Marifran O'Neil pen a prose story on the martial arts lessons between Robin and The Huntress. There's a feature on trading card collecting. The Penguin has a pun page. The Daily Planet features news on a super-hero science exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry; VR goggles; DC Skybox discs, surfing and space-walking; and, the return of the boomerang. There's also a Hero Profile on Wonder Woman.
The magazine features a gatefold cover, a center splash page and a fold-out poster of DC's heroes facing their greatest foes!
The Batman Adventures creative team of Kelley Puckett, Mike Parobeck, Rick Burchett, Rick Taylor and Tim Harkins present the Secret Origin of The Batman. It is interesting that it is presented here. The Animated Series made a conscious effort not to focus on Batman's origin; or, the deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The story unravels from the moment the bat crashes through the window and lands on the Thomas Wayne bust. Bruce remembers everything leading up to that moment. Although familiar territory, the story is brilliant re-imagined in just six pages.
The true highlight of the issue is Lois Lane recounting The Origin of Superman through Karl Kesel, Parobeck, Albert De Guzman and Tom Mcgraw. This is a Timm-Diniverse adaptation of the John Byrne version of The Man of Steel. This is also a pre-death of Luthor, The Death of Superman, mullet-free The Man of Tomorrow. Lois boils down Superman's origins across six pages.
It's a delight to see Superman in the same "universe" as Batman. (Superman and Batman do eventually meet in The Batman Adventures #25 - Super Friends, October, 1994.) Taking the Wonder Woman Hero Profile, DC's Trinity are all together, in the same tooniverse.
This is a delightfully enjoyable all-ages magazine for those that never grow old, but stay young at heart.