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Issue: World's Finest Comics #290

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Publication Date: April 1983

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Detail

Issues: #290 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 01/04/1983

Volume: 43

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Marv Wolfman (editor)

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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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Variants3

World's Finest Comics #290 [Direct]

World's Finest Comics #290 [CA Cover Price]

World's Finest Comics #290 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In2

2 Content Items
- Where Strikes Stalagron! [Illustration on Cover, Front]1
- The Man with the Molten Touch [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Images1

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

Where Strikes Stalagron!

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Ed Hannigan (signed)

Inker(s): Klaus Janson (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Superman; Batman

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

World's Finest Comics #3 published July 1984
as Where Strikes Stalagron! [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-291

The Man with the Molten Touch

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Doug Moench

Penciller(s): Adrian Gonzales

Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Ben Oda

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Stalogron (first appearance, villain); Superman; Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Yumiko

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Superman Extra #8 published January 1983
as ...und wurde zu Stein! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 23

Job Number: J-8646

Notes: Story continues in #291.

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

Credits

Writer(s): Mike Flynn

Penciller(s): ? (photo)

Inker(s): ? (photo)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Meanwhile...

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

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

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: L-1309

Notes: Letters of comment from Stephen Gawronski, T.M. Maple, Jeanine Powers, Andrew J. MacLaney, Kevin T. Brown, Keith Wobbema, Eric Chastain, Brett Burford, Chris Sullivan, Ed Little, George Tackes, and Michael Thomas Foutch Jr.