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World's Finest Comics #226

DC · Series began 1941 · November-December 1974

Dates

Cover date
November-December 1974
On sale
August 15, 1974
Pages
100

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Nick Cardy, Win Mortimer, Dick Dillin, Ramona Fradon, Jack Kirby, Tex Blaisdell, Lee Elias, Alex Toth, Sid Check, Neal Adams, Joe Certainks: Nick Cardy, Win Mortimer, Tex Blaisdell, Charles Paris, Joe Simon, Lee Elias, Alex Toth, Moe Worthman, Neal Adams, Joe Certaletters: Gaspar Saladino, Howard Ferguson, Stan Starkman, Joe Letterese, Pat Gordonscript: Bob Haney, Jack Kirby, Tex Blaisdell, Carmine Infantino, Jack Miller, Bob Rozakis, Joe Samachsonediting: Jack Miller, Jack Schiff

Stories

  • The Freak Who Never Fails · 20 pages
  • The Tricks of Metamorpho's Trade · 2 pages
  • I Hate the Sandman! · 10 pages
  • The Genius Who Fought Himself · 1 pages
  • Eclipso's Amazing Ally! · 11.67 pages

    Eclipso builds a robot Eclipso to fool Bruce Gordon but when the robot Eclipso traps Bruce and Professor Bennett and tries to kill them, Eclipso must help them escape.

  • The Crime Collector · 6 pages
  • What Makes a Corpse Cry? · 16 pages

    While trying to find his killer, Boston Brand checks on Rocky Manzel who once threatened to kill him. Boston stops Rocky and his band of counterfeiters.

  • The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel · 6 pages
  • The Case of the Magic Baseball · 6 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanClark KentSupermanJ'Onn J'OnzzMartian ManhunterMetamorphoRex MasonBoston BrandDeadmanWesley DoddsThe SandmanRobotmanSandy HawkinsRobert Crane / Paul DennisSimon StaggJavaSapphire StaggEclipsoSandy the Golden BoyBruce GordonRama KushnaDr. ErdelMona BennettTinyProfessor Bennett

Reprinted in

The Best of DC (1979), Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (1965), Weird Secret Origins (2004), DC Universe Secret Origins (2012), DC Universe: Secret Origins (2013)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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