You got me wrong hombre! I love bridges like that... They're a challenge... Like flying without a plane... 
- — Green Arrow, doubting the construction of a car bridge.
World's Finest #269 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1981.
Synopsis for Superman & Batman: "Buried Alive"
Batman wakes up to find himself buried alive. Back in Gotham City, Superman is not happy that Batman missed a meeting and Commissioner Gordon explains that, for the first time, he couldn't contact Batman. Robin arrives and confirms that he has checked everywhere, to no avail.
Gordon gets a phone call from the Metropolis Police Department and he is told that someone on top of Metropolis Bridge is claiming to have kidnapped Batman, demanded a ransom of ten million dollars from the two cities, and Batman would die in less than twelve hours if they don't pay. Superman grabs Robin and flies him to the bridge. The kidnapper, Wiley, tells Superman that if he doesn't back off, he would blow himself up. Wiley does not see Robin climbing up the side of the bridge. He explains that superheroes forget about the small-timers, and that he captured Batman by eavesdropping on police radio and blowing out the wheel on the Batmobile. In the middle of his rant, Robin tries to knock the detonator out of Wiley's hand, but only succeeds in pulling him off the bridge. Wiley blows himself up, catching Robin in the blast, and Superman immediately flies him to hospital.
When Robin comes out of surgery, Morgan Edge arrives and accuses Gordon of being part of a fiasco. Gordon flares up, Superman tells them both to back down and Gordon to stay with Robin. Jimmy Olsen play Superman a recording of Wiley's ranting after he tells how he'd already scanned the city with his x-ray vision. Superman picks up on a comment about how Batman wouldn't be lonely where he is buried and heads off to the cemetery. He finds a recently-buried lead-lined coffin and dug it up, only to find Batman has already escaped.
When Robin wakes up, Batman explains how he had removed the end plate of the coffin, dug his way out and waited for his captor, except Superman arrived instead. Robin says that Batman really was the world's greatest escape artist, to a loud amen from Superman.
Appearing in Superman & Batman: "Buried Alive"
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- Ed Wiley (Flashback and main story) (Dies)
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- Gotham City Police Department
- Brady (Phone call only)
- Commissioner Gordon
- Jimmy Olsen
- Metropolis Police Department
- Bob Tobias
- Morgan Edge
Locations:
- Earth-One
- Gotham City
- Batcave (Mentioned only)
- GCPD Headquarters
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet (Mentioned only)
- Galaxy Communications (Mentioned only)
- Metro Bridge (Flashback and main story)
- Metro General Hospital
- Metropolis Cemetery (Flashback and main story)
- Gotham City
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- Batmobile (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Green Arrow: "Escape Me...Never!"
While on assignment as Oliver Queen in the Caribbean nation of San Felipe, Green Arrow rescues the beautiful Mercedes de Diego from an attempted kidnapping. Queen is there to try and discover the key players in the drug trade that emanates from San Felipe to Star City, but Mercedes induces him to help her free through bribery a man she first claims to be her brother, then, later, her cousin, from a tough prison where he is held for political reasons. Green Arrow appears to agree and helps her with the operation. But he has deduced that she is really involved in the drug trade herself, and her "brother / cousin" turns out to be a man who had betrayed her and whom she wishes to kill. Green Arrow turns her and her quarry over to drug agents at the U.S. Embassy.
Appearing in Green Arrow: "Escape Me...Never!"
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- Corrupt government workers
- Bandit drugdealers
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- George Taylor, Jr.
- Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance) (Mentioned only)
- Mercedes De Diego
- Roberto
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- Earth-One
- San Felipe
- Citadel of Mundonga
- San Felipe
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Synopsis for Hawkman: "...I Must Go Home Again"
Appearing in Hawkman: "...I Must Go Home Again"
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Synopsis for Red Tornado: "All the Bits and Pieces of My Life"
Badly in need of repairs, the Red Tornado contacts a technician who is currently being forced by terrorists to build a bomb.
Appearing in Red Tornado: "All the Bits and Pieces of My Life"
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Sabbac Strikes Back"
Sabbac tries to get revenge on Freddy Freeman by causing nightmares that make him think that like his family, he's fated to die at sea. Junior gets even by making Sabbac think he's suffering the vengeance of the mystical embodiement of the sea for his hubris. They fight, but suddenly in the middle of the brawl Sabbac disappears in a flash of brimstone, his fate unknown.
Appearing in Captain Marvel, Jr.: "Sabbac Strikes Back"
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- Nightmare Projector
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Notes
- Sabbac and his Nightmare Projector appears by the first time since the Golden Age/Fawcett Publications. The Nightmare Projector debuted in Captain Marvel, Jr. #6.
- "Buried Alive" is reprinted in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway Vol. 1 and The Strange Deaths of Batman.
Trivia
- Despite what it seems, actually the characters in the cover doesn't appear in the same story; While all other characters are from dimension known as Earth-One, Captain Marvel resides on Earth-S.
- Captain Marvel's story is reprinted in Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal Vol. 3.
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