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Issue: World's Finest Comics #157
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 03/10/1966
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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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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The Abominable Brats!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
superhero
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The Abominable Brats!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Bat-Mite Jr. (introduction, posing as Batman Jr.); Mxyztplk (son of the original, introduction, posing as Superman Jr.)
You asked for them, readers, so here they are again... the sons of Superman and Batman, in another imaginary adventure!
Teen-aged Bruce Jr. and Kal-El Jr. are punished for mischievous acts and rebellious behavior, however the boys insist they are innocent.
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Miscellaneous
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Sequel to the story in World's Finest Comics #154 (December 1965).
Health Myths Debunked!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
informational, opinion
How to treat frostbite, a black eye, and does cutting your hair make it grow faster?
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Miscellaneous
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Between parts 1 and 2 of previous story. Previously in November 1962 issues.
Part II: The Costumed Kids' Capers!

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Subject Matter
superhero
Bat-Mite Jr. (also posing as Bruce Jr.); Mxyztplk (son of the original, also posing as Kal-El Jr.); Marty Threll
That same night, in a small bay near Gotham City...
It is discovered that Mxyzptlk's son and Bat-Mite Jr. have been posing as Kal-El Jr. and Bruce Jr. After Mxyzptlk's son is tricked into returning to the 5th dimension, and Bat-Mite Jr. explains that Mxyzptlk had used his magic to brainwash him into helping.
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Mxyzptlk's son is also named Mxyzptlk, but is never referred to as Mxyzptlk Jr.
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typeset
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Letters from Robert L. Krel, Michael Becker, Charles Armentand, Richard Dierig, Jack Lane, Bill Collins, Ralph Berkeley, Tom Chambers, Pat Strong, Win Raymond, Jack O'Hara, Harry East, Larry Scholnick, Don Herrmann, Alan Howard, Steven Beard, Bruce Wayne, Paul Gettler, and R. Grenier.
The Secret of Cell Sixteen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
horror, mystery
The kind would not lie!
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FlagTales of the Unexpected #1 published February 1956
was The Secret of Cell Sixteen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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I'm going right home to assemble this model!
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