Twilight of the Superheroes

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Twilight of the Superheroes is also a short story collection by author Deborah Eisenberg

Twilight of the Superheroes is the title of a comic book that was proposed by writer Alan Moore; he submitted the proposal to DC Comics in 1987 before his split with the company, resulting in Twilight's status as a "lost work."

The title refers to Richard Wagner's opera the "Twilight of the Gods" (Götterdämmerung). The story was to be set two decades in the future of the DC Universe and would feature the ultimate final battle between the heroes of Earth, including the older and younger generations of superheroes, as well as the supervillains and some extraterrestrials who inhabited Earth in the DC continuity. Twilight was conceived as a standalone limited series which could also be tied to ongoing titles at the other writers' consent, much like the then-recent 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths.

[edit] The proposal

As the years passed after Moore's departure from DC, the proposal for Twilight started to leak onto various websites on the internet. For a time there was some speculation as to the document's authenticity, but it has been proven by DC and Moore to be authentic. At least one website was threatened with legal action by DC, which claimed to hold the copyright on the proposal, an action whose legitimacy is disputed [1]. Some have claimed that the proposal has been suppressed due to its alleged similarities with the 1996 limited series Kingdom Come — creators Mark Waid and Alex Ross state that they read the proposal, but any similarites are minor and unintentional.