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WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #53
Cover Date: August-September 1951
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1951-05-30
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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer
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Credits:
| Story | Alvin Schwartz |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Lettering | Sam Rosen |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Toomey (first appearance; a small town banker secretly embezzling funds from a small failing town)
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- Readville (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.
Credits:
| Art | George Papp |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Mallory Smythe (first appearance; as Peter Orway; challenges and kills several masters of weapons by poisoning them)
Comment(s):
- The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.
Credits:
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Dan Barry |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Tom Sparks (invents the Guided Proxydrone; a machine capable of flight that broadcasts information back to a receiver set)
Supporting Character(s):
- Nick Sparks
- Col. Rey
Location(s):
- Equatorial Africa
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Howard Sherman |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- William Vale and Hack Sanders (first appearance for both; try to swindle homesteaders)
Credits:
| Story | David Vern |
| Pencils | Bob Kane, Lew Sayer Schwartz |
| Inks | Sy Barry |
| Lettering | Ira Schnapp |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Commissioner Gordon (also in flashback to his time as a patrolman)
Villain(s):
- Sheik Hansen (first appearance; in flashback only; a criminal who is brought in by Patrolman Gordon; dies in a prison escape)
- Big Dave Ravage (first appearance; a political fixer who poses as Hansen and tries to kill Gordon)
Other Character(s):
- Tony Gordon (first appearance; Jim's son)
- Mrs. Gordon (first appearance; Jim's wife)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.
Story Reprinted in:
- Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #7 (2019)