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World's Finest Comics, #179

Published: October-November 1968

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Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

"Here's the startling origin of the Superman-Batman team-up!"

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The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team

Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

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When Batman learns Lex Luthor has kryptonite, he goes to Metropolis to warn Superman.

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The Mightiest Team in the World!

Story Featuring Superman

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Superman and Batman learn each other's ID's while sharing a cabin during an ocean voyage

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Story Notes

First Superman-Batman team-up. It appears that this version of the story was used in the World's Finest Archives, as the note on the first page referring to the previous story in this issue is present there.

Batman-Double for Superman!

Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

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Batman has to pretend to be Superman in order to assuage Lois' suspicions that Superman is Clark Kent.

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First Superman-Batman team-up in World's Finest Comics.

When Gotham City Challenged Metropolis

Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

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Superman and Batman exchange cities as part of a contest to decide which city will get the World Electronics Convention.

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The Dictator of Kandor!

Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

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Luthor sneaks into Kandor so that he can steal Kryptonian science and weaponry.

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Story Notes

Original title: "The Dictator of Krypton City." Story re-lettered throughout to refer to city as Kandor. Relettering also adds references to Red Sun radiation and many other changes.

The Club of Heroes

Story Featuring Superman and Batman and Robin

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Lightning Man challenges Superman for the chairmanship of the Club of Heroes.

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Story Notes

Sequel to "The Batmen of All Nations!" from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #215, which is reprinted in the following issue.

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