| Characters |
Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; John Smilter; Lois Lane; Gell; Commissioner Gordon |
| Synopsis |
Superman and Batman learn each other's secret i.d.'s when they meet on a cruise while trying to find a diamond thief. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Edmond Hamilton |
| Pencils |
Curt Swan |
| Inks |
Stan Kaye (pages 1-8); John Fischetti (pages 9-12) |
| Notes |
1st Superman-Batman team (outside of radio and JSA). The World's Finest Comics Archives reprint was taken from the World's Finest #179 reprint, as evidenced by the splash page blurb: "Now that you've read the 'origin' of the World's Finest Team, here's the natural follow-up...from Superman No. 76, May-June 1952...." |
| Reprinted |
in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #179; in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Millennium Edition: Superman Vol. 1, #76 (DC, 2000) #[nn]; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #15/1970; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1 |