Hepcat

Green Lantern #11 is a very high nostalgia book for me because it was the first Green Lantern comic I ever read. That and JLA #14 with the Atom joining the Justice League were the two comics which hooked me on the DC superhero universe for life.

That #4 provides an excellent example of a defect I hate for which CGC does not penalize - the miscut left edge which leaves white showing along the spine. Miscutting of ths sort leaves any comic that isn't the brightest white look old.

Mine may be a minority opinion but I really hate that cover. I think it's Gil Kane's worst Green Lantern cover. Green Lantern looks all wrong. I dislike it so much that it was my lowest priority among early Lantern issues but three or so years ago I bought a copy anyway when I ran across a particularly pristine copy.

That's perhaps my all-time favourite Green Lantern cover, perhaps/partially because it was the first Green Lantern I actually bought as a kid. I'm leaning toward upgrading my existing copy which I acquired perhaps twenty years ago because of a minor 'defect". I get pickier and pickier over the years and drive myself crazy that way.

All slabbed 9.0's? How are you collecting them?

How could he have been so heartless?

It's sad that Mike won't post until and unless insulted though....

Here it is:

Three questions for all you World's Finest aficionados: 1. Did Supergirl ever make an appearance? 2. Did Krypto ever meet Ace the Bat-Hound? 3. Did Batwoman ever succeed in luring Superman instead of Batman into her boudoir? She was always pretty determined when she set her sights on a superhero:

Now I understand: .

Which explains why you've got only five posts on this forum! I'm glad my post forced you into the open. At least now we can all thank you for the excellent job you've been doing creating a very useful site, and then vilify you personally for any errors we find of course!

House of Comics: I don't understand what you're trying to say.

And the Superman and Batman runs are so long and tough you never get done - which is why World's Finest only rarely makes it to the front burner.

It must be my server that's the problem then.

Does anyone know the Mike of the Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics website? Why has he let his superb site lapse?

World's Finest 83 featured a bold new direction for DC's flagship heroes:

You seem to imply that the typical Superman only collector is uninterested in World's Finest as is the typical Batman only collector. Is this the case? You've focused in on the demand end of the equation. As a collector, I'm willing to pay for short supply but I'm very reluctant to pay for high demand. How plentiful are Silver Age World's Finest comics relative to Superman and Batman comics?

But those are some of my favourite characters, with Bat-Hound too of course!

Second string indeed! Space Ranger just gets no respect! I'm always interested in high grade mags with Space Ranger or Mark Merlin covers.

Good luck. Hopefully you're not holding out for NM copies....

Given the Curt Swan artwork, perhaps it's not surprising that World's Finests in the late fifties and early sixties looked more like the Superman rather than the Batman titles. But the editor was Jack Schiff of the Batman titles so they read more like the Batman titles.

Is that your DC comic collecting order of priority?

But to a hard core collector "keys" are just a nuisance. He wants all the issues to complete his collection and the keys just make it more difficult to achieve his objective since they're more expensive.

I am. I thought the New Look Julius Schwartz Batman lost the charm he got from his far out adventures and added nothing, until Neal Adams gave him a measure of edginess in the late sixties. Part of the reason is that I was no fan of the way Carmine Infantino drew Batman. I loved his work on Flash and Adam Strange but his Batman looked somehow wimpy.

I've compared the NM- Overstreet price for the last ten cent issue of the five mags below: Batman #143 - $275 Detective - #297 - $200 Superman #149 - $265 Action #282 - $200 World's Finest #121 - $190 The World's Finest is about 30% less expensive than the Batman or Superman mags despite the fact that it contains both characters and should therefore appeal to both Batman and Superman collectors and fetch higher prices than the Batman and Superman comics. Yet it clearly does not. Why then do many/most Batman and Superman collectors shun World's Finest? Is it because Batman collectors basically try to finish off their Batman & Detective runs first before tackling World's Finest but they never finish the daunting task? And similarly Superman collectors never finish their Superman & Action runs? Or is it some other factor that's specific to the World's Finest title?