World's Finest Comics, #8

Published: Winter 1942

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World's Finest Comics #8

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Sink the Japanazis with Bonds & Stamps (1)
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
Story Notes

Art credits verified by Burnley.

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Story 2 1 page
Storyline

Lists the main features with short synopses.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
Story Notes

Art credits from Craig Delich.

Talent, Unlimited!
Story 3 13 pages superhero
Storyline

Clark Kent is given the assignment by Editor White to find a missing heiress, but along the way manages to help five other people realize their dreams...as the Man of Steel!

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Perry White
  • Mr. Carroll (Sally's father)
  • Mulligan (detective)
  • Mr. Tollivar (talent agency director)
  • un-named talent agency secretary
  • Sally Carroll [aka Polly Hughes]
  • Peter Penn (artist)
  • Reginald Poindexter (actor)
  • E. J. Calkins (writer)
  • Tom Chester (musician)
  • Crakewski (musicial conductor)
Credits
Story Notes

Called "The Road to Glory" in the table of contents.

Tanks for the Memory!
Story 4 4 pages humor; military
Storyline

Drafty and Tim are put on K.P. duty, but manage to break everything in sight, so they are assigned to anti-tank detail instead.

Characters
  • Drafty
  • Tim
  • un-named army general
Credits
The Magic Lantern
Story 5 9 pages adventure
Storyline

A couple of crooks watch Zatara perform magic with an ancient lamp, so they steal it, hoping to use its magic to commit crimes.

Characters
  • Zatara
  • Grubs (villain)
Credits
Story Notes

Zatara the Master Magician

The Big Eight!
Story 6 1 page superhero
Storyline

Illustrated promotional ad, with covers, of More Fun Comics #86, All-American Comics #45, Flash Comics #36, Sensation Comics #12, Detective Comics #70, Action Comics #55, Adventure Comics #81 and Star Spangled Comics #15.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
  • Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Green Lantern [Alan Scott]
  • Doiby Dickles
  • The Flash [Jay Garrick]
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • The Guardian [Jim Harper]
  • Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins
  • Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]
  • Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]
  • Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]
Stripesy, Solo Sleuth, Inc.!
Story 7 13 pages superhero
Storyline

Having had a petty quarrel with Sylvester, Stripesy decides to go into the detective business himself...with disastrous results!

Characters
  • The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]
  • Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
  • John Pemberton (Sylvester's father)
  • Ambrose Klutch (villain)
  • Brassy (villain)
  • Mugger (villain)
Credits
Story 8 1 page humor; military

"Say, Sarge - I've got a swell idea for camouflage!"

Storyline

Pete's idea for a new form of camouflage literally leaves him "in a tree"!

Characters
  • Pvt. Pete
  • un-named Army Sergeant
The Luck of the Lepparts
Story 9 13 pages adventure; war
Storyline

The last living Leppart is haunted by his ancestors' curse: to die by one of the four elements.

Characters
  • The Boy Commandos [Captain Rip Carter
  • Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]
  • Alfie Twidgett
  • Andre Chavard
  • Jan Haasan]
  • Jared Leppart (villain, death)
  • Dr. Schwette (villain)
  • Colonel Makada (villain)
  • General Kioto (villain)
Credits
Story Notes

Kirby pencils and Simon and possible Kirby inks per Nick Caputo. Craig Delich credited Simon on pencils and Kirby on inks. Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn.

Man's Dog
Story 10 1 page adventure
Storyline

Vasil has traveled through the snow and the cold with secret plans in his possession only to be uncovered as a spy by a Russian peasant.

Characters
  • Tovarich Aronya
  • unnamed Corporal
  • Vasil (villain)
The Unluckiest Man in the World!
Story 11 13 pages superhero
Storyline

James Luckless has had bad luck all of his life, so now he decides to use people's lucky symbols against them and for himself!

Characters
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • Mr. O'Toole (butcher shop owner)
  • James Luckless (villain, introduction, death)
  • Slats (villain)
Story Notes

Art identification by Craig Delich.

The Minute Man Answers the Call
Story 12 4 pages advocacy
Storyline

Throughout history, American men have been ready and willing at a moment's notice to stand and fight for this nation's freedom...a call now being accepted by a new generation of "minute men"! The story of how the Minuteman -- the citizen-soldier -- helped win the American Revolution, their spirit has watched over America's other battles against tyranny, and how that spirit lives on in 1943.

Characters
  • Uncle Sam
  • General George Washington
  • General Charles Cornwallis
Story Notes

War bond promo; appears as a pamphlet for the Junior JSA membership kit and in several DC comics in late '42/early '43: Sensation Comics (DC, 1942 series) #11 (November 1942) All-Flash (DC, 1941 series) #6 (September-October 1942) Mutt & Jeff (DC, 1939 series) #6 (Fall 1942) Comic Cavalcade (DC, 1942 series) #3 (Summer 1943) World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #8 (Winter 1942)

Smoked Out
Story 13 2 pages war
Storyline

Little Saro has been chastised repeatedly about playing with matches, as he was too young to do so, yet it was that very thing that helped save himself and others from the Japanese.

Characters
  • Carson
  • Saro
  • Conway
  • the Japanese (villains)
Credits

Featuring Wonder Woman

Story 14 1 page superhero
Storyline

Illustrated ad with cover for Wonder Woman #2.

Characters
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]

Featuring More Fun Comics; Adventure Comics

Story 15 1 page superhero
Storyline

Illustrated ad with covers and original art (possibly by Stan Kaye) for More Fun Comics #87 and Adventure Comics #82.

Characters
  • Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
  • Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]
  • Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]
A Double for Trouble
Story 16 6 pages detective-mystery
Storyline

While riding the subway, the King decides to make himself up like a passenger he sees sleeping in a seat. Unknown to him, that man is a reporter who has belittled "The Chicken," whom he suspects in involved with the Nazis!

Characters
  • The King [King Standish]
  • Al Norton (newspaper reporter)
  • The Chicken (villain)
  • Slugger (villain)
Credits
Story Notes

Art identification by Craig Delich.

Don't Miss Your Favorites!
Story 17 1 page superhero
Storyline

Illustrated promotional ad, with covers, for All-Star #14, All-Flash #7, Batman #14, Superman #20, Mutt and Jeff #6, Green Lantern #5 and Leading Comics #4.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • the Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
  • The Flash [Jay Garrick]
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Green Lantern [Alan Scott]
  • Mutt
  • Jeff
  • Law's Legionnaires [Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]
  • Speedy [Roy Harper]
  • The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
  • Star Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]
  • Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
  • Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]
  • Shining Knight [Sir Justin]]
  • the Sixth Sense
  • Justice Society of America [Hawkman [Carter Hall]
  • Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
  • Dr. Mid-Night [Dr. Charles McNider]
  • Atom [Al Pratt]
  • Johnny Thunder
  • Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]
  • Starman [Ted Knight]
  • Sandman [Wesley Dodds]
  • Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]]
Brothers in Law!
Story 18 13 pages superhero
Storyline

The untimely death of their father leads the O'Brien brothers to attempt to get even with his killer, while working at odds against one another.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • John O'Brien (introduction, a G-Man, death)
  • Tim O'Brien (introduction)
  • Nick O'Brien (introduction)
  • The Little Corporal [Little Nap Boyd] (villain, introduction)
  • Slim (villain)
Credits
Story Notes

Art and letterer credits by Craig Delich, verified by Burnley.

Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

The Commandos Are Here!

Featuring Boy Commandos

Story 20 1 page adventure; war
Characters
  • The Boy Commandos [Captain Rip Carter
  • Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]
  • Alfie Twidgett
  • Andre Chavard
  • Jan Haasan]
Credits
Story Notes

Back cover. With cover pictured and stories listed for Boy Commandos #1, on sale November 11, 1942.