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Issue: World's Finest Comics #39
Publication Date: March 1949
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Issues: #39 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/26/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (10 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)
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
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Win Mortimer
Inker(s): Win Mortimer
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman; Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Superman; Batman; Robin
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Kodak
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Fatal Forecasts!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Edmond Hamilton
Penciller(s): Al Plastino
Inker(s): Al Plastino
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman; Lois Lane
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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High As a Kite

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Hunting or Fishing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lit-Win (signed)
Penciller(s): Lit-Win (signed)
Inker(s): Lit-Win (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Daffy & Doodle
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Hall of Infamy!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): George Papp
Inker(s): George Papp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Green Arrow
Character(s): Green Arrow; Greenface
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Writer's credit from Otto Binder's 1963/1964 listing of DC credits.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superboy
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Shorty
First Line: Remember, boys, we've got to get up early!
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Pages: 2
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Make Way for Youth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Schiff ?
Penciller(s): John Daly
Inker(s): John Daly
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: opinion
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Based on the film produced by the National Social Welfare Assembly.
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The Kid Who Hit the $60,000 Jackpot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Herron
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino
Inker(s): Steve Brodie ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Sam Rosen
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): The Boy Commandos
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Shorty
First Line: Homer was supposed to meet me here!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
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The Ghost Goes Wild!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Joe Samachson
Penciller(s): William F. White
Inker(s): William F. White
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: occult
Feature(s): Zatara
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).
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How Basketball Began

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Penciller(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Henry Boltinoff
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Peg
First Line: Hurry, Tuffy, we've got to pick up an important client of Daddy's!
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Pages: 2
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Miss Beverly Hills of Hollywood
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Pages: 1
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The Conquest of Batman's Identity!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Mooney
Inker(s): Jim Mooney ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; J. J. Jason (detective story writer, intro); Commissioner James Gordon
Synopsis: A famed detective story writer sets out to solve the mystery of Batman's secret identity.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): American Seed Co.
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Rope 'Em Both, Partner!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Daisy B-B Guns
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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