World's Finest Comics #290 [Newsstand]
(April 1983)

DC, 1941 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
43
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-01-27
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893073004
Editing
Dick Giordano (managing editor); Marv Wolfman (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #290 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Where Strikes Stalagron! (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-291
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Batman
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #290 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for World's Finest Comics (1941 series) #290 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for World's Finest Comics (1941 series) #290 [Canadian]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

The Man with the Molten Touch (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils
Adrian Gonzales (credited)
Inks
Tony DeZuniga (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
Ben Oda (credited)
Job Number
J-8646
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Wayne Manor. Night.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Stalogron (first appearance, villain); Superman; Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Yumiko
Reprints
Keywords
Batcave; Batmobile; green kryptonite; Wayne Manor

Indexer Notes

Story continues in #291.

[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
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1309

Indexer 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.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Where Strikes Stalagron!
    Superman and Batman
  2. 1. The Man with the Molten Touch
    Superman and Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    From the World's Finest Comics Fans
This issue was modified by
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.