Volume: 42
Price: 1.00 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1982-05-04
Editing: Dick Giordano (managing editor); Dave Manak (editor)
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[no title indexed]
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Superman and Batman / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Gil Kane (signed)
Inks:
Gil Kane (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-964
Characters:
This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: ?

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

The Joy-Bringers!
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Superman and Batman / comic story / 14 pages

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Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-9216
Characters:
Reprints (1)

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Black Canary; Green Arrow / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
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Editing:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-8236
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Twilight: As the silence in this Star City slum...
Characters:
Slingshot (villain)
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in the following issue.

Doctor Katar and Mister Plert
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Hawkman / comic story / 11 pages

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Editing:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-8240
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Reprints (1)

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From the World's Finest Fans / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-1063

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Fred Traweek, Dennis Petilli, Aaron Mathisen, Kevin T. Brown, and Jill D. Weber.

Charity Begins...
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Captain Marvel / Shazam! / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
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Editing:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-8293
Characters:
P.T. Barnum; Charles Blondin; Will Rogers; Clyde Beatty; Annie Oakley; Penthesileia
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Feature moves to Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) with #491.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Superman and Batman
  2. The Joy-Bringers!
    Superman and Batman
  3. ["Twilight: As the silence in this Star City slum..."]
    Black Canary; Green Arrow
  4. Doctor Katar and Mister Plert
    Hawkman
  5. [no title indexed]
    From the World's Finest Fans
  6. Charity Begins...
    Captain Marvel / Shazam!
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  • Nick Caputo
  • John Censullo
  • Peter Croome
  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Bob Hughes
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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