World's Finest Comics
#272
[Direct]
(October 1981)
DC,
1941 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 0.30 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-06-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Len Wein (editor); Mike W. Barr (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!
Superman and Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-688
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Batman
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[no title indexed]
From the World's Finest Fans / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis (credited as Ted P. Skimmer)
- Pencils
- Kurt Schaffenberger (illustration)
- Inks
- Kurt Schaffenberger (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Letters of comment from Gary Thompson, Tim Wahowske, and Dave Elyea. Also contains Direct Currents listing of current comics on sale.
Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!
Superman and Batman / comic story / 14 pages
- Job Number
- J-7305
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Batman; Perry White; Lois Lane; Robin [Dick Grayson]
- Reprints
-
in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #39 (1982) -
in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #59 (juillet 1982)
-
A Bloody Crown for a Cold Corpse!
Green Arrow / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bob Haney
- Pencils
- Trevor Von Eeden
- Inks
- Brett Breeding
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Pierre Bernard Jr.
- Job Number
- J-7445
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow; Count Vertigo
- Reprints
"Drive" Me to the Moon!
Hawkman / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-7449
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hawkman; Hawkwoman; Hyanthis
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Shayera decides she'd rather be called Hawkwoman than Hawkgirl.
Winds of Change
Red Tornado / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Red Tornado; Robot Killer
- Reprints
- in Roter Blitz (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #1/1983 (Januar 1983)
-
Chain Lightning
Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Mary Marvel / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Pencils
- Don Newton
- Inks
- Steve Mitchell
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-7425
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Mary Marvel; Chain Lightning
- Reprints
- in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #8/1982 (August 1982)
- in L'Escadron des Etoiles (Arédit-Artima, 1982 series) #7 - Triple Tragédie (janvier 1984)
-
in Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal (DC, 2019 series) #3 ([July] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
This entry in the series actually features all three logos on the title page.
World's Fun-est Puzzle
activity / 0.5 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
#78 Don Newton
DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris (credited as Michael C. Carmichael)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck / comic story / 0.1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm looking forward to meeting the Wayne Foundation's administrative assistant, Bruce...
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Bruce Wayne; Lucius Fox
Indexer Notes
Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
Volume 81 Issue 9 - July, 1981
Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (illustrations)
- Inks
- George Pérez ? (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Back cover. Includes previews of Justice League of America #195, Wonder Woman 284, The New Teen Titans #12 and others.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!
Superman and Batman -
1.
[no title indexed]
From the World's Finest Fans -
2.
Assault on the Fortress of Solitude!
Superman and Batman -
3.
A Bloody Crown for a Cold Corpse!
Green Arrow -
4.
"Drive" Me to the Moon!
Hawkman -
5.
Winds of Change
Red Tornado -
6.
Chain Lightning
Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Mary Marvel -
7.
World's Fun-est Puzzle
-
8.
#78 Don Newton
DC Profiles -
9.
["I'm looking forward to meeting the Wayne Foundation's administrative assistant, Bruce..."]
Hembeck -
10.
Volume 81 Issue 9 - July, 1981
Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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