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By: comixkid2099

comixkid2099 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:05:02 +0000

Martin Pesko was refered to as “Pesky Pesko” by the writers and editors at DC comics at the time. I know he had a letter in one of the Crisis on Multiple Earths volumes, which is where i found this out.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:23:29 +0000

You know, these stories make me realize there’s a difference between a “real” team-up story, and a story that just happens to feature two particular heroes. The former usually has a theme to explore about the characters, often one the fans themselves wonder about (for example, “What if Batman had Superman’s powers?”) but the later can be just about anything- that story with the Vigilante features a- werewolf as the menace? Even with his (often exaggerated) weakness to magic, a werewolf really isn’t a match for someone with the powers and skills of Superman. And I don’t think Vigilante fought werewolves often either…

Note, I’m not saying these are bad stories- only kind of “Huh, I didn’t expect that.” I tend to prefer the more “thematic” ones, but hey, it was the 70′s, plenty of stuff was wacky and enjoyable that way. Oh btw, while I missed this WF Superman team-ups, I did collect plenty of the ones in DC Comics Presents, where the stories usually made more sense. Heck, some of the best Supes stories ever appeared there, in my opinion.

By: DubipR

DubipR — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:54:39 +0000

I have the World’s Finest 212 issue, simply for the fact J’onn is puting the smack on Superman. Besides a great issue, I agree with your summation of the issue. Dillin was all over the place with that book… or perhaps Giella tried too hard on the clean-up of Dillin’s pages perhaps?

I too love when the Vigilante is on the covers…. cowboy and his bike. Classy

By: Biggles

Biggles — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:11:59 +0000

The covers of #211 and #212 show basically the same thing two months in a row. It being a powerless Superman. I know this comes up a lot but you think they would try to space them out a bit.

By: buttler

buttler — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:46:38 +0000

Good call, Craig. It was only about a year earlier than the first of these, although it took place over in Superboy’s own title.

There was a Superman and Aquaman team-up in World’s Finest later that same year (1971), though.

By: Craig B.

Craig B. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:31:17 +0000

Wasn’t there a “Superboy Meets Aquaboy” story around this time frame? Or was that earlier?

By: buttler

buttler — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:57:09 +0000

The Dr. Fate one is the only one of these issues that I actually had as a kid — no doubt due to the HOLY CRAP!!! cover image.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:55:59 +0000

http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781401225353

this might make you happy, Bill.

Cheers,

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:34:21 +0000

These all look terribly and brilliant at the same time. That Atom cover– yowza! And I think Ollie’s face was spared due to excessive beard. I’d love a Showcase volume of these, as well as a “Showcase Presents DC Comics Presents.”

Shame about the ‘Ghost. So happy and Gay and turned so Grim by society.