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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published January-February 1955
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)

Cover Details - "The Contest of Heroes"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Notes Klein/Reed, Showcase Presents and Archives list Stan Kaye inks.
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

10 page Superman and Batman story "The Contest of Heroes"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lois Lane
Synopsis An automated rocket returns a shape-shifting alien to Earth where it wants to play games with Superman and Batman.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #15 (October 1965); in World's Finest Comics Archives (DC, 1999 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: World's Finest (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Green Arrow story "Green Arrow's Kid Brother"

Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

6 page Tomahawk story "Gray Wolf's Revenge"

Genre western; period
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani