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Issue: World's Finest Comics #273

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Publication Date: November 1981

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Issues: #273 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/20/1981

Volume: 41

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893073011

Price: £0.30 GBP
$1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
10 (5 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #193.

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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 #273 [Direct]

World's Finest Comics #273 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Ross Andru

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Superman; Batman; Weapon Master; Plastic Man (inset)

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-728

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis [as Ted P. Skimmer]

Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger (illustration)

Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger (illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): From the World's Finest Fans

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Letters from Peter Sturman, David L. Kelly, Peter R. Herstedt, and Alfonso Limone.

In the Citadel of the Weapon Master

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Cary Burkett

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales

Inker(s): Bob Smith

Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Superman; Batman; Weapon Master; Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo)

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Pages: 14

Job Number: J-7682

Assault on Kastle Vertigo!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Haney

Penciller(s): Trevor von Eeden

Inker(s): Larry Mahlstedt

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Arrow

Character(s): Green Arrow; Count Vertigo

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7592

Design for Dying

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Martin Pasko

Penciller(s): Joe Staton

Inker(s): Bob Smith

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Plastic Man

Character(s): Plastic Man; Woozy Winks

Synopsis: Clothing designers are being stitched, zippered, and stretched to death, but Plas and Woozy soon get to the bottom(s) of the crimes.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Story title from The Comic Reader #193. Story is possibly leftover inventory from Plastic Man's Adventure Comics run which ended a year earlier in December 1980, some of which was already used in Super Friends.

Victory?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis

Penciller(s): Alex Saviuk

Inker(s): Rodin Rodriguez

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Hawkman

Character(s): Hawkman; Hawkwoman; Hyanthis; Lord Insectus (flashback); Shadow Thief (flashback)

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7450

Sivana's Nobel!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): E. Nelson Bridwell

Penciller(s): Don Newton

Inker(s): Dan Adkins

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Shazam!; Captain Marvel

Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Dr. Sivana

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Pages: 10

Job Number: J-7617

[untitled]

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis; Fred Hembeck

Penciller(s): ?; Fred Hembeck

Inker(s): ?; Fred Hembeck

Letterer(s): typeset; Fred Hembeck

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Daily Planet Feature Page; Ask the Answer Man; Hembeck

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Pages: 0.55

Notes: Inside back cover. Includes a Fred Hembeck strip featuring Woozy Winks and Plastic Man.

#80 George Pérez

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Mike W. Barr [as Michael C. Carmichael]

Penciller(s): George Pérez (illustration)

Inker(s): George Pérez (illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Feature(s): DC Profiles

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Pages: 0.45

Notes: Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

Volume 81 Issue 11 - August, 1981

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis ?

Penciller(s): George Perez; Carmine Infantino (illustrations)

Inker(s): George Perez; Bob Smith ? (illustrations)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): Bob Rozakis

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Daily Planet

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Includes previews of The New Teen Titans #13, The Flash #303, Justice League of America #196 and on sale lists for August 6th and 20th.