American Update: The World’s Finest Heroes! (and friends…)
*DC: The venerable World’s Finest Comics title originally featured Superman and Batman in separate stories, but page shrinkage in the 1950’s meant that the Man of Steel and the Caped Crusader were teamed-up, issue after issue, in stories that required quite a bit of ingenuity to challenge the heroes’ very different skill sets. This selection ranges from the late 1960’s through to the mid-1970’s (#174 to #242), and offers, among others, the rather lovely #176 (an unusual four-way team-up involving Batgirl and Supergirl, illustrated by Neal Adams), the experimental period where Superman dumped Batman and started teaming up with other heroes, from #198 on – guests at this time included Flash, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Dr. Fate and more – and the 100-Page era of the early ’70s, plus, from #215 on, the horror and disappointment that was… The Super-Sons! As is common with many of our larger recent DC updates, these are almost exclusively cents copies, with no UK pence price or overprint, and the grade skews high – a few VG’s, but many in FN/VF or better.