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Issue Details

Issue #13
Published Spring 1944
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 84
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Reprinted in Batman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1; in Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1

12 page Superman story "The Freedom of the Press!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Sanford (Planet's copy chief, introduction); Sam Greene (Planet's foreman of composing room, introduction); Matt Worth (Planet's boss pressman, introduction); Pete Gluyas (Planet's delivery truck boss); Honey Dale (Planet reporter and niece of the publisher, introduction); Happy (Planet's camerman, introduction); Emery "Emperor" Auslinger (villain, introduction); Delmar "Dice" Dimant (villain, introduction); The Rattler [Rex Ratlan] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis Lois and Clark are given the assignment to write a special story concerning the staff of the Daily Planet, but gangsters try to stop the Planet from publishing that 100th Anniversary issue.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Credits in Archives are wrong.
Reprinted in Superman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1

13 page The Star Spangled Kid and Stripesy story "Stars of the Silver Screen"

Characters The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
Genre superhero
Pencils Hal Sherman
Inks Hal Sherman

11 page The Boy Commandos story "A Wreath For Sir Edgar of Wimpledown"

Characters The Boy Commandos [Brooklyn (aka Dan Turpin); Alfie Twidgett; Andre Chavard; Jan Haasan]; Captain Rip Carter; Sir Edgar
Genre war; adventure
Script Joe Simon
Pencils Joe Simon
Inks Jack Kirby
Notes Credits by Craig Delich (May, 2004).

4 page Drafty story "Straight From The Cannon's Mouth"

Characters Drafty; Tim
Genre humor; military
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

1 page Batman and Robin public service announcement "Paper Salvage"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre fact
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Notes Sequence added by Craig Delich (November, 2005).

11 page The Green Arrow story "Blazing Gold"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]
Genre superhero
Pencils Cliff Young
Inks Steve Brodie

8 page Zatara story "Crime's Most Embarrassing Moments"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Pencils William F. White
Inks William F. White

12 page Batman and Robin story "The Curse of Isis!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mike; Jack; Swami Pravhor (villain, introduction); Gouger (villain, introduction); Sam (villain, introduction); Muggsy (villain, introduction)
Synopsis A mysterious swami uses the threat of a false curse to try and obtain some rabbit's foot lucky charms from some sailors that he had secretly planted a fortune in diamonds in.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Jack Burnley [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Bob Kane] (signed); Ray Burnley (backgrounds)
Letters Betty Bentley
Reprinted in Batman: The World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 2002 series) #1