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World's Finest Comics 58

WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #58

Cover Date: May-June 1952
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1952-03-26

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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer


Story: ""Scoop" Smith, Boy Reporter!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane
Perry White

Villain(s):

A smuggler (first appearance; poses as the Maharajah of Naroon)
Two-Gun Briggs (first appearance; a bank robber)
Fenton (first appearance; publisher and editor of Daily Tattler)
Ned Garrity (first appearance; reporter for Daily Tattler)

Other Character(s):

Euclid Smith (first appearance; boy prodigy, becomes a reporter for Daily Planet)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Star

Comment(s):

The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.


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Second Story: "The Amazing Robot Archer!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtGeorge Papp
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Green Arrow
Speedy

Villain(s):

Robot Archer Gang (first appearance for all; use a small tank with a armored archer as its turret; destroyed in river)

Comment(s):

The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.

Story Reprinted in:

Green Arrow: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2017)


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Third Story: "The Treasure in the Ice!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtHoward Sherman
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Wyoming Kid

Villain(s):

Smiling Larry Douglas and his gang (first appearance for all; try to kill a man who finds gold in an underground glacier)


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Fourth Story: "The Topsy-Turvy Treasure Hunt!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsBob Brown
InksDan Barry
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Tom Sparks

Villain(s):

Luke and Swifty (first appearance for both)

Other Character(s):

Joan Kingsley

Location(s):

Northville


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Fifth Story: "The Murder of Bruce Wayne!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDavid V. Reed (as David Vern)
PencilsBob Kane, Lew Sayer Schwartz
InksCharles Paris
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Batman
Robin

Supporting Character(s):

Commissioner Gordon

Villain(s):

Roger Keep (first appearance; goes insane and tries to kill members of the board of International Chemical Company)
Stagg and Rogle (first appearance; Keep's thugs)

Location(s):

Gotham City

Comment(s):

The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.

Story Reprinted in:

Batman Vol. 1 #233 (August 1971)


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