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Issue: World's Finest Comics #42
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Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 07/27/1949
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (8 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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Cover, Front
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The Wyoming Kid!

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superhero, western
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Superman; Batman; Robin; the Wyoming Kid
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Miscellaneous
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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/).
[untitled]

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Kodak
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1
Inside front cover.
The Alphabetical Animal Adventure!

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superhero
Superman; Lois Lane
Aliens from Uranus come to Earth in flying saucers to collect two of every kind of animal, including humans.
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Miscellaneous
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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/).
Stan Musial

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Wheaties
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1
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Gosh, it's awfully small!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Editorial Advisory Board

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The Unknown Adventure!

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superhero
Green Arrow; Arrowplane
Green Arrow goes to Mars!
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Miscellaneous
10
Script credit from Otto Binder's 1963/1964 listing of his DC credits. 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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Bazooka
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1
The Knights of the Square Table

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adventure, humorous
Doc and Fatty
King Arthur
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Miscellaneous
8
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/).
Watch for Wakely!

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Jimmy Wakely
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1
On the Vengeance Trail!

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western
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Miscellaneous
10
Kids! Play Movies!

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Kellogg's Variety
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Miscellaneous
1
The Sun-Born Mountain Man

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Subject Matter
biography, informational
Gantry Daniels
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Miscellaneous
4
biography of Gantry Daniels
[untitled]

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Mr. District Attorney; Boy Commandos
Want mystery?
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The Varmint and the Wizard!

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adventure, occult
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Miscellaneous
6
Cowhide in the Clouds

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informational, non-fiction
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2
Smokey, the Fire-Preventing Bear Comes to the Rescue of Peter Porkchops

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anthropomorphic, opinion
Smokey the Bear
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Miscellaneous
1
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/).
The Amazing Adventure of Batman and Marco Polo!

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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; Marco Polo; Chung Lum; Bahung; Kubla Khan; Wong Tso (advisor to Kubla Khan)
When Bruce and Dick encounter ancient Chinese fireworks with Batman's image, they have Professor Nichols send them back to China in the year 1275 where they encounter Marco Polo.
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Miscellaneous
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Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk

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Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics
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Inside back cover.
[untitled]

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Schwinn
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1
Back cover.

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