World's Finest # 252, September, 1978

Looks like Aparo is sticking around as cover artist. This issue's story isn't bad. More down to dart than usual.

It's time for the DC Explosion. Don't get used to it. Writer Roger McKenzie is a friend on Facebook these days. Not sure his Cinnamon ever actually appeared.

World's Finest # 251, July, 1978

Another striking Aparo cover. As far as the insides, Conway is still represented and we keep the same art team on the main story but for some reason. Haney's back. I'm serious. He had something on somebody!

Will Eisner's SPIRIT was undergoing  renaissance in the late seventies and it looks like this contents plash page is paying homage.

Nudity was ll the rage in movies of the seventies. One didn't expect to find it from Clark and Bruce, though!

An excellent revival that pushed all the right nostalgia buttons and told a good story on its own, too. For Hawkman, it was mostly downhill from here except for Tony Isabella's mini-series.

So odd to think of a time when comics and movie fans did NOT know who Chris Reeve was.

WW is back in the present day but with an oddly simplistic art style. Poison Ivy is the villainess and her origin s promised for next issue.

World's Finest # 250, May, 1978

Now THIS was comics! In the grand tradition of both anniversary issues and those book-length "messterpieces" of the Golden Age (like HUMAN TORCH # 5), here we have a dimension-spanning, time-traveling, alternate history adventure epic starring Superman, Batman and the regular back-up characters, Wonder Woman, Black Canary and Green Arrow.

After killing Gwen Stacy at Marvel, writer Gerry Conway ams close to redeeming himself with his DC work as a creator/editor/writer in the late seventies. He penned this tale and one of my personal favorites of the non-superstar artists, George Tuska, takes over on the art with Vince Colletta, who was now Art Director continuing. And this was nota  BAD thing as Tuska and Colletta made a good team. Around this same time they did the WORLD'S GREATEST SUPERHEROES newspaper strip.

Left out of the main plot line, the Creeper makes up for it by getting his origin retold in one of Steve Ditko's best DC pieces of all time.