World's Finest Comics, #269 Direct
Published: June-July 1981
Cover
Reviews
Posts About This Issue
No discussions yet.
Issue Contents:
Buried Alive!
"Did you find the Batman?"
Characters
- Batman (mainstream Universe)
- Billy Batson (mainstream Universe)
- Captain Marvel (mainstream Universe)
- Green Arrow (mainstream Universe)
- Hawkman (mainstream Universe)
- Katar Hol (mainstream Universe)
- Oliver Queen (mainstream Universe)
- Red Tornado (mainstream Universe)
- Robin (mainstream Universe)
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
- Dick Grayson (mainstream Universe)
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Bruce Wayne (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Pencils: Rich Buckler
- Inks: Dick Giordano
- Letters: Todd Klein
- Colors: Tatjana Wood
Story Notes
Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/. It seems that Buckler's signature was made by Giordano (same "R").
Credits
- Script: Jack C. Harris
Story Notes
Inside front cover. Letters of comment from: T. M. Maple and Jeff Albrecht.
Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
Credits
- Script: Cesar Samaniego
Story Notes
Inside front cover. Paid circulation: average 77,000; latest issue 78,000.
Buried Alive!
"At first, when you wake, you're certain you must still be dreaming."
Storyline
Superman and Robin are wondering where Batman is when Ed Wiley, wearing a shirt covered in TNT and standing on the top of Metropolis Bridge, announces he has captured Batman and demands ten million dollars ransom. After Wiley blows himself up, partially catching Robin in the blast, it is up to Superman to interpret Wiley's last words and find Batman, but the escape artist has already freed himself from being buried alive.
Characters
- Batman (mainstream Universe)
- Morgan Edge
- Commissioner James Gordon (mainstream Universe)
- Dick Grayson (mainstream Universe)
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Jimmy Olsen (mainstream Universe)
- Robin (mainstream Universe)
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
- Bruce Wayne (mainstream Universe)
- Bob Tobias
- Ed Wiley
Credits
- Script: Gerry Conway
- Pencils: Rich Buckler
- Inks: Frank McLaughlin
- Colors: Carl Gafford
- Letters: John Costanza
Escape Me...Never!!
"Sun, sand, sea... San Felipe!"
Characters
- Green Arrow (mainstream Universe)
- Oliver Queen (mainstream Universe)
- George Taylor, Jr.
- Mercedes De Diego
- Roberto
- Capitan Carranzas
Credits
- Script: Bob Haney
- Pencils: Trevor Von Eeden
- Inks: Brett Breeding
- Colors: Carl Gafford
- Letters: Todd Klein
...I Must Go Home Again!
"Polaris! On Earth it is known as the North Star! But it is the life-giving sun for the world of Thanagar..."
Characters
- Hawkman [Katar Hol]
- Hawkgirl [Shayera Hol]
- Hyanthis (flashback)
- unnamed Thanagarians
- Adam Strange (flashback)
- Alanna Strange (flashback)
- unnamed Wingmen
- Doctor Jymbi
Credits
- Script: Bob Rozakis
- Pencils: Alex Saviuk
- Inks: Rodin Rodriguez
- Colors: Carl Gafford
- Letters: John Costanza
Story Notes
Story continues in the next issue.
All The Bits and Pieces of My Life
"A modest workman's tool table, with the kind of equipment you might find on the bench of any electronics or computer hobbiest..."
Characters
- Red Tornado (mainstream Universe)
- Arnold Tracy
- Madame Redclaw
- Harold
- Irving
- Oswald
Credits
- Script: Gerry Conway
- Pencils: José Delbo
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Colors:
- Letters: Todd Klein
Sabbac Strikes Back!
"No one can defeat the sea-- not even Captain Marvel Jr!"
Characters
- Captain Marvel Jr.
- Freddy Freeman
- Sabbac [Tim Karnes]
- Satan
- Any
- Belial
- Beelzebub
- Asmodeus
- Craeteis
Credits
- Script: E. Nelson Bridwell
- Pencils: Don Newton
- Inks: Dan Adkins
- Colors: Adrienne Roy
- Letters: Ben Oda
Story Notes
Return of Sabbac. Spotlight on Captain Marvel, Jr.
DC Profile #72
"DC spaceman Adam Strange travels 25 trillion miles everytime he visits the planet Rann."
Credits
- Script: Mike W. Barr
Story Notes
Inside back cover. At Daily Planet Feature Page. Profile about Laurie Sutton.
Featuring Ask the Answer Man!
"Q: What is the weakness of Sinestro's ring?"
Credits
- Script: Gerald Howard
Story Notes
Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page.
On Sale March 5th
Story Notes
Inside back cover. Part of the Daily Planet Feature Page. Information about DC comics on sale at March 5th.
"Look--in that World War One bi-plane! It's DC battle ace Steve Savage!"
Characters
- ]Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Superman [Clark Kent
- Kal-El]
Credits
- Script: Fred Hembeck
- Pencils: Fred Hembeck
- Inks: Fred Hembeck
- Letters: Fred Hembeck
Volume 81 Issue 3 - March, 1981
"Double-barrel Green Lantern excitement!"
Credits
- Script: Bob Rozakis
- Pencils: Brian Bolland
- Pencils: George Pérez
- Pencils: Rich Buckler
- Inks: Brian Bolland
- Inks: George Pérez
- Inks: Steve Mitchell
- Inks: Dick Giordano
- Colors: Anthony Tollin
- Letters: Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
- Editing: Bob Rozakis
Story Notes
Back cover. Includes previews of Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2, Green Lantern #141, Ghosts #101, Unexpected #211, Secrets of Haunted House #37, Legion of Super-Heroes #276 and Adventure Comics #482 (Dial H for Hero).