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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published May-June 1957
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)
Notes No text story in this issue. List of contest winners instead.

Cover Details - "Superman and Batman's Greatest Foes!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

12 page Superman and Batman story "Superman and Batman's Greatest Foes!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lex Luthor; Joker; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mechano-Men
Synopsis Lex Luthor and Joker go into business together making Mechano-Men, near indestructible robots. Superman and Batman believe they have not gone straight and try to figure out their master plan.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #15 (October 1965); in Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #73-168329; in Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn ([December] 1988); in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

Half page Quick Quiz activity "untitled"

Genre fact
Script H. T. Elmo?
Pencils H. T. Elmo?
Inks H. T. Elmo?

1 page Lionel and his Lions filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Green Arrow story "The Imprisoned Archer"

Characters Arrow Cave
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Green Hat.

2 page Charlie Cannonball filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Tomahawk story "A Pistol for Tomahawk"

Characters Dan Hunter
Genre western; period
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray