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Issue: World's Finest Comics #270

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Publication Date: August 1981

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Issues: #270 of 322 Issues (424 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/21/1981

Volume: 41

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893073008

Price: $1.00 USD

Indicia Frequency:

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 #191.

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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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2 World's Finest Comics #270 [Direct]

World's Finest Comics #270 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (10 total)

Bedlam Is the Black Hole!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Rich Buckler

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Batman; Superman; Metallo; Green Arrow (inset); Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (inset); Hawkman (inset); Red Tornado (inset)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-645

Notes: Art credits confirmed from The Comic Reader #191.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

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

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover. Letters of comment from Dave Lauder, Todd Hitchcock, Mike Sopp and Danny Golding. Includes Direct Currents column May 7th and May 21st.

A Hole for Killing!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Rich Buckler

Inker(s): Romeo Tanghal

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman and Batman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Metallo [Roger Corben]; Parasite [Maxwell Jensen] (cameo); Atomic Skull [Albert Michaels] (cameo); Bernard Hawkley; Metallo's henchmen

Synopsis: Metallo escapes from prison and harnesses the power of a black hole.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 14

Job Number: J-7559 ?

A World Gone Mad!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Haney

Penciller(s): Trevor von Eeden

Inker(s): Bob Smith

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Green Arrow

Character(s): Green Arrow; Count Vertigo

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Pages: 8

Notes: Story continues in World's Finest Comics #272.

You and Me Against Our World!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Rozakis

Penciller(s): Alex Saviuk

Inker(s): Rodin Rodriguez

Colorist(s): Bob LeRose

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Hawkman

Character(s): Hawkman; Hawkgirl; Shadow Thief; Hyanthis (flashback)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Die, Android-- Die!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Jose Delbo

Inker(s): Joe Giella

Colorist(s): Jerry Serpe

Letterer(s): Milt Snapinn

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Red Tornado

Character(s): Red Tornado; Robot Killer

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7353 ?

Notes: Story continues in World's Finest Comics #272.

Our Son, the Monster!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): E. Nelson Bridwell

Penciller(s): Don Newton

Inker(s): Larry Mahlstedt

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): Milt Snapinn

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Shazam!; Captain Marvel

Character(s): Captain Marvel

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Pages: 10

Job Number: J-7330

[untitled]

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?; 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

Character(s): Hawkman; Flash

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.67

Notes: Inside back cover. Includes Current Bat-tractions (previewing Batman #338, Brave and the Bold #177, and Detective Comics #505) and Fred Hembeck strip featuring Hawkman and Flash.

#74 Jim Aparo

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

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

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: biography

Feature(s): DC Profiles

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 0.33

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

Volume 81 Issue 5 - May, 1981

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

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Editor(s): Bob Rozakis

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Daily Planet

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Features preview of Flash #300, Justice League of America #193 (All-Star Squadron preview) and Len's Line-up (featuring Wonder Woman #282, Unknown Soldier #254 and Adventure Comics #484).