World's Finest Comics #294 [Direct]
(August 1983)

DC, 1941 Series
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Volume
43
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-05-03
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Roger Slifer (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

Tonatiuh! (Table of Contents)

Superman and Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ed Hannigan (signed as HANNIGAN)
Inks
Klaus Janson (signed as Janson)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
C-391
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Batman; Tonatiuh
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Night of the Midnight Sun! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman and Batman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
L. B. Kellogg (sourced) (as L. B. Kellog)
Pencils
Jerome Moore (credited)
Inks
Frank Giacoia (credited); Mike DeCarlo (credited) (see notes)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
Ben Oda (credited)
Editing
Marv Wolfman; Roger Slifer (credited)
Job Number
J-8732
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Metropolis: at the stroke of midnight.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Batman; Dick Grayson; Jimmy Olsen; Susan Morning Cloud; Alfred Pennyworth; Tonatiuh (First appearance)
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Indexer Notes

Per Nick Caputo, Giacoia inks on pages 1-4 and 11-23 and DeCarlo inks on pages 5-10.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

From the World's Finest Comics Fans / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri; Roger Slifer
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Dustan Leary, Roger D. Poe, Mark Lagasse, George Williams, Adam Burchess, David Mercury and Charles David Haskell. Also DC Coming Comics for May 26th (about one-third of the second page).

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Tonatiuh!
    Superman and Batman
  2. 1. Night of the Midnight Sun!
    Superman and Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    From the World's Finest Comics Fans
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  • Peter Croome
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jason Sacks
  • Per Sandell
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
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