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Issue: World's Finest Comics #169
Publication Date: September 1967
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Issues: #169 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/25/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mort Weisinger; E. Nelson Bridwell (Assistant Editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #161, 170, 179, 188, 223-228, 230)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In9
Disclose Reprinted From1
reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
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The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman and Batman and Robin
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagShowcase Presents: World's Finest #3 published May 2010
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #1/1969 published January 1969
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batgirl #1 published September 2007
as World's Finest Comics #169 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (18 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-1/).
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The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cary Bates
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman and Batman and Robin
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]
Synopsis: Batgirl and Supergirl team up to show that they are a better super-team than Batman and Superman.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagShowcase Presents: World's Finest #3 published May 2010
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #11/1968 published November 1968
as Komplottet mellom Supergirl og Lynpiken [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #26/1968 published December 1968
as Die Verschwörung von Supergirl und Batgirl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #1/1969 published January 1969
as Die Verschwörung von Supergirl und Batgirl [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batgirl #1 published September 2007
as The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Part II: Clash of the Super-Teams!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cary Bates
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): George Klein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman and Batman and Robin
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Catwoman [really Bat-Mite]; Black Flame [really Mr. Mxyztplk]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): E. Nelson Bridwell ?
Penciller(s): Curt Swan; Bob Brown (illustrations)
Inker(s): George Klein; Bob Brown (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Direct Currents
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Amazing Cube!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Kashdan
Penciller(s): Bernard Baily
Inker(s): Bernard Baily
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Pat Gordon
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): The Editors' Round Table
Synopsis: Harvey Hacker meets a fellow gambler who has made his own dice from a meteor and with which he cannot lose. Following him, Hacker is able to snatch one when the other gambler crashes his car outside an atomic station. Planning to analyze the cube later, Hacker finds that it is apparently getting larger and larger through the night, nearly crushing him in his own house. But when scientists arrive from the atomic station, Hacker realizes it is he and his house that have been shrinking due to the combination of the radiation and meteor the cube was made of.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #26/1968 published December 1968
as Der verhexte Würfel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagTales of the Unexpected #9 published January 1957
was The Amazing Cube! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6

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