Penguin Random House and DC Comics have both announced that Superman: The Triangle Era Volume 3 will be released on August 11, 2026!

From the website…

The era that reshaped Superman continues in this massive third volume, as the Reign of the Supermen begins!

This direct continuation of the Death of Superman storyline features the debuts of Steel and the clone Superboy, plus even more unforgettable moments, such as the destruction of Coast City and Kal-El donning the black Kryptonian war suit for the first time!

Following the in-demand two previous installments, Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 3 collects Action Comics #687-697, Action Comics Annual #5, Adventures of Superman # 500-510, Adventures of Superman Annual #5, Superman #78-88, Superman Annual #5, Superman: The Man of Steel #22-32, Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #2, and Green Lantern #46, plus the Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey miniseries written and illustrated by Dan Jurgens.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I did fix the solicit a bit. If you go to the Penguin Random House website or see the DC solicitation you’ll see what I’m talking about.)

So, let’s break this down.

What’s In the Book?

Big picture? The Superman books spanning cover date June 1993 to the first half of cover date April 1994.

The omnibus reprints all of Reign of the Supermen, which has been reprinted a bunch of times before (both as a trade paperback and in several omnibuses) but if you’re going to reprint the whole Triangle Era, you can’t skip this. Like the five-volume series from a few years back and the most recent Death and Return of Superman Omnibus, it also includes the annuals from 1993, which were part of the Bloodlines event. I would not say these were essential to Reign as a story, but they’re part of the run and the Superman Annual does tie into the last part of Funeral for a Friend.

After that story ends you get the post Death and Return stories, most of which has never been reprinted. You have the back door pilots to both the Superboy and Steel ongoing series, the introduction of the David Conner iteration of Eradicator, and the two-part story with Lobo. The Superman: The Man of Steel issue of that two-parter originally had two covers, a standard one and one with vinyl clings that allowed you to design your own cover. I hope there is some mention of this in the back matter because it was silly and awesome all at the same time.

There’s also the revamp of Toyman, where he went from a killer that still had a soft spot for helping kids to someone that murdered kids. This leads to an outstanding issue that showed Cat Grant dealing with the death of her son. You have the Spilled Blood storyline, which is where the Superman books really leaned into the violent tropes that was popular in the early part of the nineties. This storyline gave us a white supremacist Bloodsport as well as Bloodthirst, who really has to be seen to be believed.

Then you get four issues worth of Superman being “lost in space” which were a lot of fun. The Superman issue ties into the Sun Devils max-series from 1984/85 that had early art and writing from Dan Jurgens. The Challengers of the Unknown appears in an issue of Adventures of Superman, which I was always fond of. The volume ends with Bizarro’s World storyline, where we were introduced to the second version of Bizarro in the Post Crisis era.

Superman/Doomsday Hunter/Prey is also included, which doesn’t quite line up in terms of original release dates but, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. The story doesn’t have a firm place in the Triangle storytelling, so its place in the overall narrative is fluid.

So, a lot of really good stories. The era that followed the Death and Return storyline was very strong. You did see some influences from Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman seeping into the book (mainly Lois’s new hairdo) but mostly it was the creative teams using the capital they earned from the death to continue delivering a near weekly Superman title that was a mix of super hero action and soap opera.

What About Volume 4?

I’m hoping the series does continue, because if there is a next volume, it will begin with The Fall of/Battle for Metropolis storyline. I also hope that DC will reprint all of World’s Collide, the crossover the Superman characters did with the Milestone universe. Then there are the Zero Hour crossover issues and the Zero Month storyline Peer Pressure. At this point the Triangle Era was still going strong, so a fourth volume would be great.

I am hoping to get this book as soon as it comes out. I still haven’t gotten a copy of Volume 2 due to things being kind of tight at the moment, but the plan is to be able to get that, the upcoming Brainiac Trilogy omnibus, and this volume sooner rather than later.

Fingers crossed.

More to follow…