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Issue Details

Issue #84
Published September-October 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 - "The Super-Mystery of Metropolis!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
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-Mystery of Metropolis!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Superboy [Clark Kent](flashback); Lois Lane; Perry White; Ma Kent (Flashback); Pa Kent (Flashback); Thad Linnis; Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback)
Synopsis Superman believes that Thad Linnis knows his secret identity, so when Thad demands he leave Metropolis, Superman does. Superman reveals to Batman and Robin a tale of his youth in Smallville, and discovers that the young boy that he thinks may have discovered his identity was actually a young Bruce Wayne.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan (splash); Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes 1st meeting of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent in Smallville.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #170 (October 1967); in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Superman and Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1968 series) #3; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Green Arrow story "The Mystery of 1,000 Masks"

Characters Arrow Cave called Secret Lair
Genre superhero
Script Dave Wood
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Green Arrow has red hat

1 page public service announcement "The Big Dance!"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Letters typeset

5 page Tomahawk story "The Frontier Braggart"

Genre western; period
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown