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World's Finest (1941) #247

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"Superman & Batman: "Last Hurrah for a Superman?!"": During the reign of tyranny of Superman's twin brother, Kor-El, Batman decides to give up. However, when he learns that Superman is still alive, he joins the eff

Quote1 He's alive! Superman's alive -- Now I've got something to fight for -- Kor-El's tyranny will soon end! Quote2
— Batman

World's Finest #247 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1977.

Synopsis for Superman & Batman: "Last Hurrah for a Superman?!"

During the reign of tyranny of Superman's twin brother, Kor-El, Batman decides to give up. However, when he learns that Superman is still alive, he joins the efforts to take down the madman.

Batman tells Superman that he suspects that Kor-El is not his brohter and is a mere imposter, who somehow managed to learn secrets from Superman's past. Despite the new information, Superman has to confront his "twin brother", but his strength is not enough to defeat his adversary and is instead beaten and taken to prison. In order to help Superman, Batman asks Kor-El for permission to see Superman in prison, before his ultimate execution. The next day, when Superman is about to be killed, he vanishes in front of the shooting squad, baffling Kor-El and his troops. The amazing escape was made possible by The Atom, who switched bodies with Superman during Batman's visit to the Man of Steel in prison.

Meanwhile, Superman and Batman reach the Fortress of Solitude and they continue their investigations on Kor-El and they think of a way to defeat them. Superman decides to turn the tablet that Kor-El used to trick them and transforms it into liquid Kryptonite by replicating the explosion of Krypton and covering the statues of Jor-El and Lara with the chemical.

When Kor-El attends a United Nations' metting to declare himself ruler of the Earth, a couple of representatives of Middle Eastern countries offer him the statues of his parents as a gift. The representatives are really Batman and Superman in disguise and they trick Kor-El into touching the statues. Once in contact with the Kryptonite, Kor-El is weakened and his true identity is revealed. The man is in fact the Parasite, who disintegrates back into the state of dispersed atoms he was reduced to at the end of Superman's and his last encounter.

Once the threat is gone, Batman and Superman reinstate order in America and the world.

Appearing in Superman & Batman: "Last Hurrah for a Superman?!"

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Synopsis for Black Canary: "Requiem of Rage"

Dinah Lance is surprised by Wulf, the humanoid wolf, while climbing out of the shower, but defeats him in battle. Wulf explains that he has not come to molest her, but requesting her aid, as his master, Dr. Grant, is dead, and he knows the murderer's identity. Dinah changes into her Black Canary outfit and heads out on her motorcycle, while Wulf, riding behind her, explains what happened: Dr. Grant was murdered by a mysterious man called Marcel Moreau and his gang, who had financed his operation but who were no longer its beneficiaries. Wulf ended up killing the gang member who had murdered Grant. The Canary tells Wulf she has learned that Moreau is a war profiteer who supplies arms to Middle East revolutionaries. She takes them to Moreau's island, but, since the sun is coming up, the nocturnal Wolf is paralyzed by a phobia of daytime and the Canary heads on alone. She is brought down by another humanoid animal and soon finds herself Moreau's prisoner.

Appearing in Black Canary: "Requiem of Rage"

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Synopsis for Green Arrow: "Isle of Hate -- Island of Dread"

After capturing Reggie Ronson and his gang, Green Arrow is contacted by Detective Mack Morgan of the Star City police, who relays a warning call from a Canadian resident who was told to call Star City if the Black Canary didn't return by sundown. GA warps into British Columbia by way of the Justice League's transporter, meets Wulf, and breaks into Moreau's residence with him, only to be captured. Moreau gives Wulf a treatment intended to make him a slave, and tells Wulf to release GA and Black Canary into an acid bath, which will free their protein to be used as base material for more animal men. But Wulf rejects Moreau's order, and causes an explosion which frees the heroes, allowing them to escape. Wulf and Moreau are destroyed in the blast.

Appearing in Green Arrow: "Isle of Hate -- Island of Dread"

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  • Moreau
    • his animal men
  • Reggie Ronson
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Synopsis for Vigilante: "Deathmaze!"

The Manikin of Menace known as the Dummy watches footage of the Vigilante defeating his gang only to find that Stuff the Chinatown Kid is already dead and six dead men to answer to the cops about. He soon has his goon Slug take him back to his main hideout and recalls how he escaped prison this time: he pretended to have dementia until he was transferred to Arkham Asylum until his girlfriend, Molly, delivered him some “Nutsy Putty” (which was actually plastic explosives.) Meanwhile, Vigilante is being wrestled to the ground by several members of Gotham PD until Commissioner Gordon arrives to say that he won't have him killing men in the streets and that he'll handle the Dummy's escape and the Prairie Troubadour apologizes softly, but shows him the body of Stuff, which convinces Comm. Gordon to deputize him (for now) and attach him to Det. Lt. Philkar to tell him everything he's planning. The Vig says that he needs a place to bed down for the night and returns to his penthouse to become Greg Sanders once more, country-western superstar with a guitar case full of guns and a knife in each boot and a secret derringer strapped to his arm for quick-shots. He soon picks up a crate with his newest Vig-Cycle in it and takes off, leaving Philkar behind in the dust. He soon shakes down a former goon of the Dummy's to find out what he's up to, but only learns that the Dummy is working with someone named “Kingston” lately. He climbs a building with his lariat and finds himself soon in a dummy hallway (with spikes closing in,) but climbs up them and blasts a hole in the roof with a sawed-off shotgun. More spiked sawblades jab out at him, but he blasts through a nearby door to find that… Jolyon Kingston is dead in his chair… and he's being accused of his murder by Lt. Det. Philkar!

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Synopsis for Wonder Woman: "The Man in the Doomsday Mask"

On her quest to stop Baron Blitzkrieg, Wonder Woman joins forces with Mademoiselle Marie and together they manage to defeat the enemy, or at least that is the apparent outcome.

Appearing in Wonder Woman: "The Man in the Doomsday Mask"

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Notes

  • Cover art: Wood colorist credit from World's Finest #249.
  • All the stories are set on Earth-One, with exception of Wonder Woman's, which takes place on Earth-Two; Her story establishes that Earth-Two has a Mademoiselle Marie counterpart; Earth-One Mademoseille had a daughter, Julia, with Alfred, a romance which did not take place on Earth-Two.
  • "Last Hurrah for a Superman?!" is reprinted in The Best of DC #66

Trivia

  • The Green Arrow's story suggest that he can use his JLA Signal to directly teleport himself to the JLA Satellite.
  • Parasite, disguised as Kor-El, attributes himself the title "Big Brother", an obvious reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four, where the dystopia was ruled by a tyrant called Big Brother. In addition, the cover has Parasite/Kor-El soldiers in positions and wearing Superman symbol-armlets that resemble the Nazi Party.
  • Superman states that the Parasite absorbed his powers before on two separate occasions. However, there were five at the time of this issue's publication: Action Comics #340, Action Comics #361, Superman #286, Superman #299, and Superman #304. Presumably, writer Bob Haney meant that there were two previous occasions when Parasite absorbed Superman's powers and used them to fight Superman directly, in which case Action Comics #340 and Superman #304 are what are probably meant. In Action Comics #361, Parasite takes the identity of Larcon P. Leech and tries to gradually drain Superman's powers by spending time near his Clark Kent identity, but is baited by Superman and some friendly aliens into a trap. In Superman #286, Parasite mostly attacks using a fleet of flying saucers commandeered from Lex Luthor and knocks Superman into a stupor with a single punch after absorbing his power from him. As a result, Luthor has to scientifically enable Superman's willpower to animate a statue made of aberrant alien minerals in order to defeat their mutual foe. In Superman #299, Superman ducks an energy blast from Lex Luthor, which is absorbed by Parasite, causing Parasite's energy-thirst to overload the blaster and cause it to explode in Luthor's and his faces.


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