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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published January-February 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (editor-in-chief); Jack Schiff (managing editor); Murray Boltinoff (associate editor); George Kashdan (associate editor)

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

12 page Superman and Batman story "The Super-Newspaper of Gotham City"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Perry White; Lois Lane; John Hall (Editor, Gotham Gazette); The Mole [Mr. Harrah]
Synopsis Perry White sends Clark and Lois to Gotham to help save the Gotham Gazette. Superman and Batman try to find out what crime story editor John Hall was working on before he was hospitalized.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Klein/Reed, Showcase Presents, and Archives incorrectly list Paris inks.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #188 (October 1969); in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Green Arrow story "The Bewitched Bow"

Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler "Tell your sister I'm hereā€¦"

Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes data supplied by Pat Lang 1/05

2 page text story "Men Against the Sea"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset
Notes data supplied by Pat Lang 1/05

Half page Movie Mirth filler "Say, Nips..."

Genre humor

6 page Tomahawk story "The Brave of Fort Fearless"

Genre western; period
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray

1 page Binky public service announcement "The Best Present of All"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Reprinted from 2/54 issues.