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World's Finest (1941) #255

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"Superman and Batman: "Thou Shalt Have No Other Batman Before Me"": While on an assignment to an small town called Dalton Corners, Clark Kent learns of the existence of a Bat-Man figure much prior to his friend, Batman's debut. Superman calls Ba

World's Finest #255 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1979. It was published on November 9, 1978.

Synopsis for Superman and Batman: "Thou Shalt Have No Other Batman Before Me"

While on an assignment to an small town called Dalton Corners, Clark Kent learns of the existence of a Bat-Man figure much prior to his friend, Batman's debut. Superman calls Batman and together, they investigate the mystery in the town of Dalton Corners and run into cultists trying to raise an evil bat-god.

While Batman is left to handle the situation in the small town, Superman travels to Australia to find the original "Bat-Man". Batman is unable to confront the bat-god and he is only saved by the timely arrival of Superman and the Bat-Man. The Man of Steel is unable to stop the magical creature and it is up to the Batmen to fight the bat-god. Using magic from their ancestors, the Bat-Man is able to defeat the bat-god and in the aftermath, they explain that the origin of the bat-god and the Bat-Man has its roots in ancient Indian rituals.

Finally, Clark Kent is still the best reporter of Galaxy Communications, despite having failed on his assignment, and all because he has the required information about the recent events about the bat-creature.

Appearing in Superman and Batman: "Thou Shalt Have No Other Batman Before Me"

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  • Gitchka the Bat-God (Single appearance; dies)
  • Sheriff Marston (Single appearance)

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  • Eddie
  • Jud Dugan

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Synopsis for Green Arrow: "Nothing But a Man"

Oliver Queen's campaign for the mayor's race against Ralph Halstead goes into high gear when super-heroes begin endorsing Queen. Subsequently, Queen is kidnapped by hoods and forced into a meeting with crime-boss Thaddeus Cable. There he learns that his mentor, incumbent mayor Jack Major, has secretly been in cahoots with Cable for over 20 years. Queen manages to secretly switch to the Green Arrow and battle his way out, then, with the help of Green Lantern and the Black Canary, stops two of Cable's gunmen from attempting to assassinate him at his campaign headquarters. Jack Major, also at the scene, dies of a heart attack, but admits to Queen before he dies that he did cut a deal with Cable. Ralph Halstead wins the election, possibly due to rigged votes, but when Clark Kent calls Queen's residence to tell him that Oliver may really have won the election and could be proven the winner after an investigation, Dinah Lance tells Kent not to pursue the inquest, as the disillusioned Green Arrow no longer wants to be mayor.

Appearing in Green Arrow: "Nothing But a Man"

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Synopsis for The Creeper: "Furious Fran and the Dagger Lady"

The Creeper incurs the wrath of the knife-throwing Dagger Lady when Jack Ryder intervenes in a blackmail plot against a network star.

Appearing in The Creeper: "Furious Fran and the Dagger Lady"

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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Dreamdancer"

Mr. Morris receives an invitation for two tickets to a Greenwich Village show at Club Okapi, which has free food, drinks and entertainment! He soon arrives to find the entertainment is a dancer in blue and white-striped tights named “Dreamdancer” who does a hypnotic dance that seems to convince him to give her a nightly show! When he tells Billy Batson, he is worried that he's enamored with her, but he merely says that she's highly talented and he trusts her implicitly due to her intelligence. Billy soon tells his sister Mary about this and how he lost his show over it, so she invites her brother over to Mrs. Bromfield's house to watch the hot new act. However, when her show starts that night, across town police scientist Jim Barr is transfixed by her dance, ignoring his wife Susan altogether. Billy is similarly affected. Billy has a horrible nightmare of Captain Marvel attacking him and threatening that he will become separate from him even if it means killing him until Dreamdancer says him and fights back Captain Marvel, hypnotizing him into becoming afraid of Captain Marvel and unwilling to call his magic word.

Meanwhile, Jim has a fantasy where Bulletgirl betrays him for constantly overshadowing her and snatches his Gravity-Helmet off his head while in flight, only for Dreamdancer to “save” him as well, hypnotizing him into thinking that Bulletgirl will betray her. Mary Batson is immune altogether to Dreamdancer's charms and Mrs. Bromfield offers that the dazed Billy leave, with Billy arrogantly saying he's walking home himself, casually insulting Captain Marvel! Mary is suspicious and soon gets a call from Susan and offers that they team up. Mary soon makes an excuse for her foster mother and calls "SHAZAM!" outside to become Mary Marvel and fly off. Mary Marvel finds that Bulletman has left in a huff without her and they figure that this is like how Jim was immune to Dr. Sivana's mind-control (as he's now blonde.) Susan recalls how she was the daughter of a desk sergeant when she met meek and skinny police scientist Jim Barr, who suddenly created a serum that made him strong and impervious to disease. She was suspicious for some time that he was also the Flying Detective, Bulletman, until the day when she saw him without his helmet, proving as much. He admitted that the serum also altered his mental abilities, giving him the power to develop his Gravity Helmets, which let them fly and also attract bullets towards their helmets instead of the rest of them. Susan worries that Jim's affections are slipping from her fingers, but Mary Marvel says that's not what Dreamdancer wants; men who love her would become jealous and quarrel among themselves, but she only wants men to trust her.

Flying off with her as Bulletgirl, they begin to investigate while Bulletman uses a specialized harness and tank to write “WATCH DREAMDANCER ON WHIZ TV.” in the sky. At Station WHIZ-TV, Dreamdancer herself thinks on how she's learned this ancient art of hypnosis from an “ancient manuscript” that enthralls men into trusting her. Mary Marvel and Bulletgirl listen in from outside to hear her consorting with known criminal Leo Thorn and offering him a payroll delivery that he can rob, which they figure is a crime enough to arrest her for... if he so chooses to do it. Later, the armored truck carrying the payroll is attacked and find that bullets do little to Bulletgirl and a bazooka does just as little to Mary Marvel as the Thorn Gang is defeated. However, Dreamdancer appears to say that she was leading the goons there to be arrested and that they can't quite arrest her yet. Instead, they head to her show and, in interrupting her, they break the spell on the men, who realize that she's just dancing for a half-hour time slot and decide to throw out the whole show. What's worse, Billy calls "SHAZAM!" to become Captain Marvel and the rest of them realize that she's been enslaving them. Bulletman arrives to ask how Bulletgirl figured it out and she says that they watched her show and choreographed their attacks to make her dance the same way, but backwards! Meanwhile, Captain Marvel finds Leo Thorn in the crowd with a hot revolver in his jacket and arrests him too, admitting that even the Wisdom of Solomon wouldn't have figured that one out!

Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Dreamdancer"

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  • An Armored Payroll Truck

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