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Issue: World's Finest Comics #272

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Publication Date: October 1981

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Issues: #272 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 07/23/1981

Volume: 41

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893073010

Price: £0.30 GBP
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (6 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #192.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; 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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World's Finest Comics #272 [Direct]

World's Finest Comics #272 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (11 total)

Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): wraith-robots

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-688

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Letters of comment from Gary Thompson, Tim Wahowske, and Dave Elyea. Also contains Direct Currents listing of current comics on sale.

Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Jeremy Cole (reporter); Gobbler (criminal); Dr. Reinhold; wraith-robots

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 14

Job Number: J-7305

A Bloody Crown for a Cold Corpse!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Guardian Archers [Duke Denicha; others]

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7445

"Drive" Me to the Moon!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Thanagarians

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7449

Notes: Shayera decides she'd rather be called Hawkwoman than Hawkgirl.

Winds of Change

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Robot Killer

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Pages: 8

Chain Lightning

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Chain Lightning (first appearance, origin)

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Pages: 10

Job Number: J-7425

Notes: This entry in the series actually features all three logos on the title page.

World's Fun-est Puzzle

Activity on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 0.45

Notes: Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

DC Profile #78 Don Newton

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Character(s): Don Newton

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Pages: 0.4

Notes: Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Mr. Pachter

First Line: I'm looking forward to meeting the Wayne Foundation's administrative assistant, Bruce...

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Pages: 0.15

Notes: Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

Volume 81 Issue 9 - July, 1981

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover.

Includes previews of Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #195, Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #284, The The New Teen Titans (DC, 1980 series) #12, and others.