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Adrián Gutiérrez drew Batman/Superman: World's Finest #31 and #32 as a fill-in for regular artist Dan Mora, who was drawing Absolute Power. But now that Dan Mora is off to Superman as well as Justice League Unlimited, it seems that three books might be just too much even for Dan. So now it looks like Adrián Gutiérrez will be a[...]

William Shatner tweeted last night, "Run, don't walk to your local comic book shop TOMORROW (12/15) & pre-order your copy of @dcofficial 's BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #25, with my cameo variant cover by @dan_mora_c! Everyone knows I don't do cameos -for DC Comics I made an exception! It's on sale 3/19/24!" And indeed he has[...]

And one that interrupts Superman's marriage proposal, which means that's from a different reality as well… but if it's not the DC Earth, why should readers care? Today's World's Finest #20 sees Batman and Superman take an early trip to Earth 22, courtesy of some help from The Flash, on the hunt for Superman's not-sidekick Thunder[...]

Hibbard. Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan choose to tell a flashback story of the first time the two met, in 1952, in Superman #76. But that wouldn't be enough, as Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan would then tell another story in 1956 and Worlds Finest Comics #84, that showed a secret meeting that neither realised at the[...]

You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Tom Brevoort Tops Two in Top Ten stories yesterday on Bleeding Cool Batman/Superman: World's Finest #18 Preview: A Tale of Two Tight Suits  Neal Kirby Challenges Marvel's Version Of Fantastic Four's Origin The Latest On IDW's Cancelled Creator-Owned Comics Dark X-Men #1 Preview: Turn Off the Dark Iron Man[...]

And now I've lived long enough where the movies are starting to reference me back… you know, in a weird way, even though I've been making films for 30 years, and I got my own career, I feel like, 'Oh, I finally made it.'" Other covers in the Batman/Superman: World's Finest series will include Jerry Seinfeld,[...]

Spoilers, of course. Mirka Andolfo Draws Generation Joker for Sean Murphy's DC Murphyverse Sean Murphy's World's Finest: White Knight Does The Justice League Super Spoilers For Sean Murphy's White Knight Murphyverse To recap, first up will be  Batman: White Knight Presents: Generation Joker  by Katana Collins and Clay McCormack, with art by Mirka Andolfo, for May 2023.  "Concerned about[...]

And also World's Finest: White Knight featuring the Justice League he will be writing and drawing saying "we'll tackle all your Favorite characters in the typical White Knight tradition: small, unique twists on classic characters, but in a way that feels familiar This being its own universe, I'm really excited to reinvent the JLA in[...]

Super Adventure Comic #55 is the UK edition of World's Finest #71, an issue that launched the Superman/Batman team stories in that title, which is a key because the combination of the world's two most famous superheroes in actual stories also proved to be comics' most important team-up for decades.  While World's Finest had featured[...]

Massive spoilers for this week's Batman/Superman: World's Finest #10 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, out this Tuesday – but also available in many comic book stores since last Thursday, as street date enforcement has been all-but-dropped in the current distribution system Some people may have been picking up this book, others may not have[...]

PrintWatch: Iron Cat #1 and Amazing Spider-Man #4 are getting second prints from Marvel Comics, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 and The Flash #783 from DC Comics, Sengi & Tembo #1 from Scout Comics and Alex Toth's Artist Edition from IDW. PrintWatch: "Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, featuring the fusion between the[...]

World's Finest writer Mark Waid will naturally be overfamiliar with the long history of merged Superman and Batman in one form or another Composite Superman, a shapeshifter with a grudge, being the most prominent, who first appeared in  World's Finest Comics #142 in 1964 and recurred through the years in various forms World's Finest, a[...]

Last month's Batman/Superman: World's Finest #2 saw the Doom Patrol's finest researchers investigate a Chinese superhero team from 1579 BC, for want of a better phrase, known as the Warriors Of Ji, from the House Of Ji. With Robin and Supergirl taking a trip through time to meet them to try and uncover the secrets to[...]

When DC Comics announced a Batman/Superman/Jerry Seinfeld cover as 1:100 incentive cover for the launch of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #1, there was retailer uproar Basically, if a store didn't order 100 copies, there was no cover for you, no cover for you, no cover for you DC Comics had become the Variant Nazi Despite the[...]

This is just the beginning for Waid and Mora—and for Superman and Batman!" And add to that a concept art picture added to the press release with the filename "Batman-Superman-Worlds-Finest-Character-Sheet" and the caption "Batman/Superman – World's Finest," and look, we can take a hint So it looks like this backup will set up a new[...]

In 1999, foundational comics creator Fred Guardineer recalled the inauspicious genesis of the character Zatara for the San Jose Mercury News, "My friend and editor Vin Sullivan said, 'Make it as much like Mandrake as you can without getting sued.'" Perhaps not the sort of origin that lends itself to a decades-spanning character, and in[...]

Because it takes a deep dive to March 1970 and the publication of World's Finest #192 and #193 from DC Comics fifty-one years ago. World's Finest #192 with Superman and Batman And a story called The Prison Of No Escape by Bob Haney, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito about the fictional Eastern European country of Lubania, never[...]

While last year felt like a teaser, "Crisis" has offered a number of moments that demonstrated the trust – with precaution – that exists between the "World's Finest": https://youtu.be/DGQisqHGt04Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: DCTV Crisis on Infinite Earths Crossover Behind the Scenes: Worlds Finest (HD) (https://youtu.be/DGQisqHGt04) https://youtu.be/pSLAd-G42w8Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

DC Comics is lining up more original comics-mixed-with-reprints for their available-everywhere new line of 100-Page Giants – though they will be in Walmart and Targets first. So in comic shops for December and January that means a new Batwoman/Supergirl: World's Finest Giant #1 And a relaunch of Superman Giant #1 No content details as of yet,[...]

The World's Finest Collection has released their second box and it's theme is Wonder Woman I reviewed the first box, Batman, back in September and was blown away with the quality and quantity of the items in the subscription box It felt a bit like Felix's Magic Bag as there seemed to be far more[...]

They have they're differences, but they're still just too alike to not be best friends. The interactions between the World's Finest and their romantic partners are absolutely delightful You see how they understand one another and why these couples work so well Catwoman and Lois Lane can cut through the pretenses and exteriors of Batman and[...]

The Batman-Hater is dead. Now Josh is just going to review Batman #37. This comic brings us the double-date between Batman, Catwoman, Superman, and Lois Lane at the Gotha City Fair. Is it a good read? Or will it give a new start to the Batman-Hater?

The World's Finest Collection just started up with their Batman themed box and is at the higher end price ways compared to other subscription boxes, but the quantity and quality of the items sent does seem to justify the high price tag. The box contained multiple items including a t-shirt, travel mug, umbrella, vinyl figure, two[...]

#1 Convergence: World's Finest Convergence: Detective Comics #1 The Multiversity #2 Fantastic Four #645 (Marvel, $5.99) By Jeb D. We didn't know it at the time, of course, but Fantastic Four #100 was the twilight of the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby partnership; they would do just two more issues together before Kirby left for DC And from the cover, it looked like[...]

Paul Levitz is continuing his run on World's Finest with the fifth part of the Secret History of Superman & Batman? You have to love a title with a question mark in it So exactly what happened to the Earth 2 Superman and Batman… this is the story with the answers. Death and destruction are increasing on[...]

In 1955 he replaced Curt Swan as the regular artist for the Superman/Batman stories in World's Finest until his retirement in 1963. One off the stories Spran drew, Joker's Millions, was adapted as an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. The Sprang statues are a throwback to a lighter time for the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince[...]

But it looks like she's not the only one. The Huntress, in today's World's Finest, also appears to be doing a mean impression of The Winter Soldier in this flashback… The new issue of Constantine is published today. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. About to host an underground event hosted by a collection of the UK's most promising emerging[...]

First you read Batman/Superman #8, then you read World's Finest #20. Then you find a time machine to two/three weeks in the future to April 16th so you can read Batman/Superman #9 five weeks late Then come back to last week and pick up World's Finest #21 off the stands (only two weeks late). See? Simple[...]

Can this really be putting on sales for the affected books? Because if I'd have remembered, I think I'd have put it right back on the shelf. That's right Superman, because you're her mother! Okay, maybe not, but as Power Girl appears in Batman/Superman, so Superman appears in World's Finest It's a kind of exchange[...]

So much so that you are in a team called Suicide Squad. But just one minute, over in World's Finest today… You're just full of the joys of spring! See, Earth 1 ain't bad, is it? There's a war coming… but you can always go for a little flight action. And another way to dispose of surveillance equipment, in[...]