World's Finest Comics #291 [Direct]
(May 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
1983-02-01
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Dick Giordano (managing editor); Marv Wolfman (editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Walt Simonson (signed)
Inks
Walt Simonson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
C-356
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Flee, surface-dwellers!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Batman; Stalagron
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The Strange Saga of Stalagron (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Adrian Gonzales
Inks
Tony DeZuñiga
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Ben Oda
Editing
Marv Wolfman; Roger Slifer
Job Number
J-8713
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Batman; Stalagron (origin)
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

From the World's Finest Comics Fans / letters page / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis [as Ted P. Skimmer]
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1310

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from David Mercury, Brian Ahern, Kent A. Phenis, Dave Patterson, Patrick Craig, Jon Gruber, Franklin A. Crawford III, Delmo Walters Jr., Jef Peckham and Gary D. Robinson.

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 4)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

65,000 average paid circulation over the last year and 81,000 for the latest issue.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Flee, surface-dwellers!"]
    Superman and Batman
  2. 1. The Strange Saga of Stalagron
    Superman and Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    From the World's Finest Comics Fans
  5. 4. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
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