*DC: Leading this week’s selections from the Bute Collection is World’s Finest #20, Winter 1945. An amusing Jack Burnley cover typical of the period, featuring Superman, Batman & Robin. In these early days for the title, Superman and Batman appeared in separate stories and had a variety of back-ups, in this case Green Arrow, Zatara, the Boy Commandos and others in its 76 squarebound pages. The Superman story features the Toyman. The spine is more or less intact, but has several pieces of tape around it. There is a 4 cm tear vertical from the top edge near the spine going through the letter ‘W’ in the logo. There are also several tears to the right edge sealed by tape, in some cases both inside and out. Some tape also on back cover. Other than all that, the comic holds together pretty well;  the pages have some grubby edges but are okay and there is a small stain top of back cover.
PICTURED: WORLD’S FINEST #20 FA/GD £120 SOLD