World's Finest Comics, #36

Published: September-October 1948

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Art credits verified to Craig Delich by Mortimer.

Lois Lane, Sleeping Beauty?

Story Featuring Superman

"No one can estimate how many lives Superman has saved!"

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An Egyptian curse strikes Lois, causing her to fall into a sleeping coma. However, it is all a ruse to help a struggling playwright. To keep Superman from discovering the truth, he is sent to retrieve seemingly impoosible ingredients for her "cure".

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Mystery Man of Death Valley

"Many times in the past 40 years..."

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Left over from Real Fact Comics (DC, 1946 series).

Mayor of the Muggs!

Story Featuring Zatara

"When crooks try to browbeat honest citiens..."

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Using his magic, Zatara foils a plot to rig an election

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Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).

Crime for a Hobby!

Story Featuring Green Arrow

"In Gangland they say, "Green Arrow without his bow is like a scorpion without his sting!""

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The annual Hobby World's Fair is being held on Hobby Island. Oliver and Roy are aboard an approaching ship. Roy is to have a booth, displaying their entire collection of arrow heads. The insurance company has every visitor screened by fluoroscope. Although they wear their crime fighting costumes under their civilian clothes, no weapons are allowed on the island. However, Mr. Gadget has smuggled in a gun concealed in a statue. In their Green Arrow and Speedy guise they create makeshift bows and arrows from items at hand, and bring Gadget's crime spree to an end.

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Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).

The Legion of Death-Cheaters!

Story Featuring The Boy Commandos

"They were members of a unique club indeed..."

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Young millionaire Dudley Perkins is giving a party aboard his yacht when it catches fire. The Boy Commandos and Captain Carter happen to be on a nearby paddle steamer, and help pull survivors from the water. Learning that Perkins did not jump, they swing over to the burning yacht and pull him from the fire. Carter and Perkins are invited to join The Legion of Death-Cheaters - men who have survived near-death situations. At their annual meeting various members tell their tales. Rip recalls one time when he and the Commandos flew over Pas de Calais to the Nazi Buzz Bomb nest.

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Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).

Ship of Destiny!

"Rich and poor, good and evil..."

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Taking a vacation to recover from a bullet wound, Bruce Wayne goes on a cruise, but when thieves strike, Batman investigates.

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Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).

Doctor Fatty and Mr. Hyde!

""History's Headaches" is what they call Doc and ..."

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Doc is reading "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Fatty accidentally hits one of the keys on the time-typer and they are sent back to Victorian London. Feeling thirsty, Fatty drinks a beaker of liquid which changes him into a "Mister Hyde" character. Within a week he has claimed one hundred victims, but instead of killing them he snips off their mustaches. In a sort time he has one thousand victims under his belt. They escape back to the present just as an angry mob bursts in, and Robert Louis Stevenson has an idea for a novel.

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Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/). The story is possible inventory from All Funny Comics (DC, 1943 series) whose last issue was released several months prior.

Story Featuring Casey the Cop

"I've seen you around here for hours!"

"Weight and Fortune 1¢"

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Back cover.

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Inside back cover.

Editorial Advisory Board

"Want mystery?"

Ewell Blackwell
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Inside front cover.