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Sep 10, 2026
RockyHOST
that are going to bear fruit in the present.
RockyHOST
It's just so something that Mark Waid would do in the overall plotting, because he does the same thing with World's Finest, and he's doing the same thing, I think, with Batman and Robin dynamic duos, which we're going to review this week, too, in my opinion.
JaceHOST
Yeah, I mean, don't forget that it wasn't that long ago that Mark Waid got his first run on Action Comics when he did the arc with Mon-El.
JaceHOST
Yeah.
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Other than
Alex ZalbenHOST
that run, Maguire helped launch Teen Titans in 1992, has worked with Fabian Nesueza on multiple books, and alternated with George Perez on World's Finest during DC's New 52 era.
Alex ZalbenHOST
While Maguire is best known for his work with DC, he also briefly worked for Marvel, penciling books by Brian Michael Bendis, and working with Seth Meyers and Bill Hader on a one-shot Spider-Man The Short Halloween.
Alex ZalbenHOST
Most recently, he provided the art for Bad Ideas' Banana No. 1 from writers David Lapham and Michael Allred.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
So, oh, okay.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
So I would very much love to have, uh, World's Finest Number 98, which is- The issue where Superman and Batman and Robin fight Moon Man, who turns out to be someone who, when the moon comes up, he kind of loses his mind a little bit and gains powers, and they kinda have to put him down.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
And they realize that when the sun goes down, he returns to his normal life.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
And we, Mark Waid and I, recreated this in World's Finest annual 2025.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
Yes.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
Um, they're, we're, they're actually fighting Moon Man at the top of that.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
We retconned a little bit of stuff, but that, that's the Easter egg of, of, of the World's Finest issue this y- this year, is that it, it's, it's, uh, pulling moments, um, or, or imagined moments from the fight with Moon Man in World's Finest 98.
Christopher CantwellGUEST
So there you have it.
Peter RiosHOST
on his earliest comic memory and this comes from direct currents number 20 that was dated august of 1989 and i have a thank you here thank you here to mr phil who either um sent me a scan or told me about it but So here's what Keith Kiffin has to say.
Peter RiosHOST
The first actual recollection I've got of any comic book was a world's finest.
Peter RiosHOST
It was one of those with the early Batwoman, with the yellow and red uniform, which made so much sense because it was so bat-like.
Peter RiosHOST
He laughs sarcastically.
Peter RiosHOST
I was about eight years old when I decided I was going to work in comics.
Peter RiosHOST
That's so cool.
Peter RiosHOST
So that comic that he's referencing is World's Finest Comics 117 from March of 1961, Super Batwoman and the Super Creature, written by Jerry Coleman, pencils by Kurt Swan, Stan Kay is your inker, and Swan and Kay did the cover.
Peter RiosHOST
You have Batwoman flying down and stopping Superman.
JimHOST
I mean, there's two things.
JimHOST
It's, you know, when I'm on the app, for example, and I'm just reading something like World's Finest.
JimHOST
I love World's Finest or Justice League Unlimited, right? I love those books, right? For various reasons.
JimHOST
But, you know, a lot of times they're all just like, okay, dialogue, click, new panel, click, click, click.
JimHOST
And you're just kind of going through.
Anthony DesiatoHOST
All right.
Anthony DesiatoHOST
Well, kind of on a related note, my number three is the three-part World's Finest.
Bernie GerstmayrGUEST
Oh, I did not...
Bernie GerstmayrGUEST
Yeah.
Anthony DesiatoHOST
I don't mean to.
Anthony DesiatoHOST
I'm just, I'm very surprised.
Bernie GerstmayrGUEST
Honestly, that one to me, that one to, for me, not to make, not to sound like a complete A-hole, the World's Finest one just seemed really token for me.
Bernie GerstmayrGUEST
Like, it, it, like, it's, it's always talked about.
Marco AnimotoHOST
i think so yeah that's the way i'm reading it i
Tyler OlsonHOST
think we're already there i think like post post world's uh world's finest with uh mark wade especially at dc i think people are trying to reconstruct comics really instead of deconstruct i think we're in a reconstruction period absolute batman is on a deconstruction of batman but more of a reconstruction of batman Um, so I, I don't, I, I think that's already changing like deconstruction.
Tyler OlsonHOST
I think it's like black hammer.
Tyler OlsonHOST
That's a more recent reconstruction and playing with that.
Marco AnimotoHOST
Yeah, I think people should leave behind this more cynical view of what comics are because if you open yourself up to a bit more whimsy, something like Legion of Superheroes felt whimsical.
Marco AnimotoHOST
Sci-fi, but whimsical.
Marco AnimotoHOST
To what you were saying about World's Finest, that's just a happy book, man.
Marco AnimotoHOST
And I'm just happy that it exists.
Paul KenHOST
That is the second part of that two-issue debut of the Super Friends.
Paul KenHOST
World's Finest 242.
Paul KenHOST
The final bow for the Super Sons takes place in the town of the Timeless Heroes by Bob Haney, Ernie Chua, and John Calden.
Paul KenHOST
The final
Paul KenHOST
Who wrote that last one where they become the computer-generated
Sean M. MyersHOST
thing? Yeah, I'm not sure who wrote it.
Sean M. MyersHOST
But yeah, that's the World's Finest in the 80s.
Paul KenHOST
The little trade paperback of all the Super Sons appearances is a hoot.
MattHOST
I
PeterHOST
think something I'd like to point out, because some of the complaints that I often bring up when I talk about certain issues, the reason why I stopped reading World's Finest was how many issues just felt like meaningless fighting constantly.
PeterHOST
I think what I want to point out here is that yes, this issue is mostly just a lot of big fight scenes, but all of it has so much context and we've spent 13 issues of Batman building to this confrontation of Batman dealing with these Tukos and going after Savage.
PeterHOST
There's so much weight to it and it feels very cathartic to see him go through this group of enemies.
MattHOST
In World's Finest it's very chaotic and it's very much because Mark Waid said so.
MattHOST
All of this has context and purpose.
PeterHOST
Yeah.
Paul KenHOST
That is the second part of that two-issue debut of the Super Friends.
Paul KenHOST
World's Finest 242.
Paul KenHOST
The final bow for the Super Sons takes place in the town of the Timeless Heroes by Bob Haney, Ernie Chua, and John Calden.
Paul KenHOST
The final
Paul KenHOST
Who wrote that last one where they become the computer-generated
Sean M. MyersHOST
thing? Yeah, I'm not sure who wrote it.
Sean M. MyersHOST
But yeah, that's the World's Finest in the 80s.
Paul KenHOST
The little trade paperback of all the Super Sons appearances is a hoot.
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