This issue's tale of the World's Finest team has been reprinted several times already but it's a fun one so here it is again. Sci-fi veteran Edmond Hamilton writes this time travel story with Dick Sprang and Stan Kye on the art.
Oddly enough, the most important page in the issue is the ad below for the first issue of SHOWCASE. It wasn't much really and neither were the next couple of issues. But by the time we got to issue # 4, it was officially the Silver Age of Comics.
I like it, specially the Superman-signal Batman use!!! The strangest Superman-signal ever!!!
ReplyDeleteI particularly liked the front doors of the Gotham City Jail.
ReplyDeleteHey Steve, I really enjoy your blog. It's been great watching WF evolve. My recollection of the mag is firmly grounded in the sixties when it was basically one of the Superman family books that just happened to feature poor, powerless Batman. Do you know when Mort Weisinger took over as editor of WF?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Whitney Ellsworth remains listed as Editor until issue 99 at the tail end of 1958 but in truth Ellsworth had followed the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN TV series out West some years before that so someone was editing the title during those years without credit. Logically one would guess it was Mort but starting with issue 100, Jack Schiff, then editing the BATMAN titles, begins being credited in the indicia. Weisinger doesn't come along until 1964's issue 141, bringing the Swan/Klein team along with him and a definitely different feel to the stories.
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