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Cover: Win Mortimer

World's Finest Comics #45

Apr 1950 · DC · 0.15 USD

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Contains 8 stories

Lois Lane and Clark Kent, Detectives!

12 pp · Superhero

Superman [Clark Kent]Lois LanePerry White

In "Lois Lane and Clark Kent, Detectives!", the Daily Planet’s star reporters take on a real case when a string of murders targets detectives. With Lois Lane proving her knack for solving small mysteries and Clark Kent using his secret identity to dig deeper, the duo races to uncover the truth behind the killings—only for Lois to find herself in danger, captured and shot, forcing Superman to act in a heart-pounding moment of ultrarapid rescue.

The Silver Dollar Clue!

10 pp · Western-Frontier

The Wyoming Kid [Bill Polk]

The Switchman of Crime!

10 pp · Superhero

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]Speedy [Roy Harper]Switchman (villain, introduction)

Renegade Train Boss

4 pp · Adventure

Three Tasks for a Hero!

6 pp · Adventure

Zatara [Giovani "John" Zatara]

The Ghost of Gallows Head!

10 pp · Adventure

Untitled Humor story

0.75 pp · Humor

Shorty

The Historian of Crime!

12 pp · Superhero

Batman [Bruce Wayne]Robin [Dick Grayson]Commissioner James Gordonunnamed auctioneersProfessor Ezra Dorn (introduction)Crime Historian [Simmons] (villain, introduction)Pierre Larue (French master criminal, flashback)unnamed Paris police officer (flashback)unnamed guardHo Mah Tu (Chinese criminal, flashback)

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $112

CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $5,033

CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $3,301

CGC 9.0 none in existence

CGC 8.5 none in existence

CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $1,020*

CGC 7.5 · 3 in census $850

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CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $680*

CGC 6.5 · 5 in census $614

CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $475

CGC 5.5 · 4 in census $415*

CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $403

CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $337*

CGC 4.0 none in existence

CGC 3.5 none in existence

CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $231*

CGC 2.5 · 5 in census $187

CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $159*

CGC 1.5 none in existence

CGC 1.0 none in existence

CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $80*

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Full credits

writer John Broome

artist Bob Kane

artist Lew Sayre Schwartz

inker Stan Kaye

letterer Ira Schnapp

cover pencils, inks Win Mortimer

Reprints

Reprinted in Super Adventure Comic #13 (1951), Stålmannen #6/1952 (1952), Lynvingen #10/1953 (1953), Action Comics #248 (1959), Colossal Comic #13 (1960), Gigant #2/1963 (1963), Superman Super Library #23 (1966), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #7 (2019), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #7 (2023), Stålmannen #17/1950, Stålmannen #21/[1950]

Key issues in World's Finest Comics

#3 1st appearance — Scarecrow

#111

#111 1st appearance — Clock King

#246

#246 1st appearance — Baron Blitzkrieg

#251

#251 1st appearance — Count Vertigo

#26

#26 1st appearance — Bebe

#4 1st appearance — Chief Hot Foot

#5 1st appearance — T.N.T.

#159

#159 1st appearance — Chief O'Hara

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