How can you strike a man who rewrites the fabric of reality itself? 
World's Finest #270 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1981.
Synopsis for Superman & Batman: "A Hole for Killing!"
Metallo is broken free of his cell on Superman Island by a miniature black hole, which he uses to power his artificial heart and to set a trap for Superman and Batman.
After learning the basics about Black Holes, the two heroes go to the Batcave, where they build a gravity-wave detector, which would help them locate Metallo and his crooks. While the villain has been going around Gotham on a criminal spree, Batman locates the source of Metallo's power and he tracks the criminal to his headquarters. However, Batman falls for Metallo's trap and is used as bait to lure Superman into Metallo's hideout.
Superman breaks into the place to save Batman, but Metallo uses his new black hole heart to incapacitate Superman, creating an extremely powerful gravitational field around the Man of Steel. Batman takes the chance to smash Metallo's control board, which makes Metallo's black hole heart unstable and causes it to absorb everything nearby, starting with his own body. After Metallo is sucked into his own black hole, Batman and Superman round up the rest of Metallo's gang.
Appearing in Superman & Batman: "A Hole for Killing!"
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Supporting Characters:
- Bernard Hawkly (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Metallo (Apparent death)
Other Characters:
- Atomic Skull (Cameo)
- Parasite (Cameo)
Locations:
- England
- Oxford
- Gotham City
- Batcave II
- Finger Alley
- Superman Island
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Synopsis for Green Arrow: "A World Gone Mad"
Count Vertigo escapes from jail with a new vertigo-inducer and uses his power to dizzy Green Arrow so much that the archer agrees to negotiate and get Vertigo the crown of Vlatava, which Vertigo believes is rightfully his, as a member of the royal line. But, after Vertigo gets the crown, he takes a sledgehammer to it.
Appearing in Green Arrow: "A World Gone Mad"
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Other Characters:
- The guardian archers
- Duke
Locations:
- Star City
- Twin-spired star trade towers
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Synopsis for Hawkman: "You and Me Against Our World"
Appearing in Hawkman: "You and Me Against Our World"
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Locations:
- Xarapion
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Synopsis for Red Tornado: "Die, Android -- Die!"
The Red Tornado is challenged to a duel by the Robot Killer, who wishes to destroy all robots.
Appearing in Red Tornado: "Die, Android -- Die!"
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- Robot Killer (First appearance)
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "Our Son, the Monster!"
Billy Batson returns home to the Potter House to find… a large green monster just inside, so he calls SHAZAM to challenge it as Captain Marvel. However, Ma and Pa Potter step out to say that this is their son, Daniel “Dan” Potter, who has been turned into a monster. Captain Marvel decides to hear him out. When he was a teenager, he was abducted by aliens while camping who seemed to speak English and shot him with a beam that stunned him, waking up in a transparent bubble prison. After some years on their planet, their Emperor decided to “generously” return him home… but shows their “honor” for his helping their Earth studies, turned him into one of them and chucked him back to Earth on an automated ship. Captain Marvel points out that he doesn't really have any proof of this, but the Potters point out he does know things only their son could know, so the World's Mightiest Mortal decides to help out by getting him back to normal. Captain Marvel soon flies him out to the automated ship he took home and uses the Wisdom of Solomon to find that the language is similar to the aliens of Waero III, reprograms the craft to have working air-recycling and shoves it all the way back to the craft's home planet, only for the aliens there to presume that someone has stolen one of their probes to attack them. Captain Marvel throws the ship into orbit for now and punches back the beams being shot at him, destroying the guns that fired them. The aliens quickly surrender and Captain Marvel retrieves the ship from orbit once more to visit the Emperor. The Emperor points out the clear disparity between their standards of beauty and their natural fear of someone as ugly as Captain Marvel (or any human,) and the Emperor turns him back to his “ugly” original self before Captain Marvel flies Dan back home. Captain Marvel says that Billy should be back again to meet Dan before and Billy apologizes for judging him beforehand. Ma and Pa Potter are happy to have their semi-adopted son Billy back as well as their actual son Dan, who's no longer a hideous alien.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "Our Son, the Monster!"
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Supporting Characters:
- Pa Potter (Final appearance)
- Ma Potter (Final appearance)
- Daniel "Dan" Potter (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Aliens
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Earth-S
- New York City
- The Potter House (Final appearance)
- New York City
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Vehicles:
- An Alien Ship
Notes
- Starting with this issue until the end of the series, World's Finest becomes a monthly comic. This issue also marks the beginning of Len Wein's run as editor of World's Finest after Jack C. Harris' editorial tenure.
- "A Hole for Killing!" is reprinted in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway Vol. 2.
- Captain Marvel's story is reprinted in Shazam!: The World's Mightiest Mortal Vol. 3.
Trivia
- Despite their joy and wonder at having both a son and a child they treat like their son, the Potters and their home are never seen again after this issue.
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