World's Finest Comics, #273 Newsstand

Published: November 1981

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World's Finest Comics #273

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover. Letters from Peter Sturman, David L. Kelly, Peter R. Herstedt, and Alfonso Limone.

In the Citadel of the Weapon Master
Story 2 14 pages superhero
Characters
Credits
Assault on Kastle Vertigo!
Story 3 8 pages superhero
Characters
Design for Dying (1)
Story 4 8 pages superhero
Storyline

Clothing designers are being stitched, zippered, and stretched to death, but Plas and Woozy soon get to the bottom(s) of the crimes.

Characters
  • Chief Branner (mainstream Universe)
  • Eel O'Brian (mainstream Universe)
  • Plastic Man (mainstream Universe)
  • Woozy Winks (mainstream Universe)
  • Dr. Malcolm Feasance (villain, pun on the word malfeasance)
  • Melvin Klone (villain, parody of Calvin Klein)
  • Snookie Yields (villain, model, parody of Brooke Shields)
  • Pete Ophelia (Snookie Yields' agent, pun on the word pedophilia)
  • Fidal Babboon (corpse, parody of Vidal Sassoon)
  • Sergio DeMente (corpse, on poster, parody of Sergio Valente)
  • Bobby Dwarf (parody of Bobby Short)
  • Helmut Horsesache (corpse, parody of Gianni Versace)
  • Gloria Jerrybilt (parody of Gloria Vanderbilt)
  • Agent O'Nigma (N.B.I. agent, death, pun on the word enigma)
  • Anne O'Rexia (model, pun on the word anorexia)
Credits
Story Notes

Story title from The Comic Reader #193. Story is possibly leftover inventory from Plastic Man's Adventure Comics run which ended a year earlier in December 1980, some of which was already used in Super Friends.

Victory?
Story 5 8 pages superhero
Characters
Sivana's Nobel!
Story 6 10 pages superhero
Characters
DC Profile #80 George Pérez
Story 7 0 pages biography
Characters
  • George Pérez
Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

Story 8 0 pages
Characters
  • Bob Rozakis
Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page. Includes "Len's Line-up" and "Ask the Answer Man!".

Story 9 0 pages humor

"How many tickets?"

Story Notes

Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.

Volume 81 Issue 11 - August, 1981
Story 10 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover. Includes previews of The New Teen Titans (DC, 1980 series) #13, The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #303, Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #196, and on-sale lists for August 6th and 20th.