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Issue: World's Finest Comics #273
Publication Date: November 1981
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Issues: #273 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/28/1981
Volume: 41
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.30 GBP
$1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 11 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: C-728
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Letters from Peter Sturman, David L. Kelly, Peter R. Herstedt, and Alfonso Limone.
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In the Citadel of the Weapon Master

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): wraith-robots
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Taschenbuch #39 published January 1982
as In der Zitadelle des Waffenmeisters [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: J-7682
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Assault on Kastle Vertigo!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Guardian Archers [Duke Denicha]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-7592
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Design for Dying

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dr. Malcolm Feasance (villain, pun on the word malfeasance); Melvin Klone (villain, parody of Calvin Klein); Snookie Yields (villain, model, parody of Brooke Shields); Pete Ophelia (Snookie Yields' agent, pun on the word pedophilia); Fidal Babboon (corpse, parody of Vidal Sassoon); Sergio DeMente (corpse, on poster, parody of Sergio Valente); Bobby Dwarf (parody of Bobby Short); Helmut Horsesache (corpse, parody of Gianni Versace); Gloria Jerrybilt (parody of Gloria Vanderbilt); Agent O'Nigma (N.B.I. agent, death, pun on the word enigma); Anne O'Rexia (model, pun on the word anorexia)
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose 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.
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Victory?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Thanagarians
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Extra #5 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-7450
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Sivana's Nobel!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #23 [Direct Sales] published April 1982
as Sivana's Nobel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Job Number: J-7617
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DC Profile #80 George Pérez

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Character(s): George Pérez
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.45
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bob Rozakis
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.35
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page. Includes "Len's Line-up" and "Ask the Answer Man!".
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: How many tickets?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
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Volume 81 Issue 11 - August, 1981

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Includes previews of The New Teen Titans (DC, 1980 series) #13, The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #303, Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #196, and on-sale lists for August 6th and 20th.

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