Remember Lights Out? Inner Sanctum? I Love a Mystery? Those were great shows, Siren -- The true golden age of radio. Now all we've got is rock and roll -- and the same old dreary news about Lebanon, poisoned headache remedies, and threatened monuments. 
- — Anthrax
World's Finest #292 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1983. It was published on March 24, 1983.
Synopsis for Superman and Batman: "The Anthrax Hotline"
In Gotham City, Superman and Batman are scheduled to appear on a radio talk show, hosted by the lovely Susan LaSalle, known as The Siren. The interview goes well as both heroes answer from their unique perspectives. After a while, Susan starts getting calls from the audience and after a few people have the chance to ask their questions, a terrorist named Anthrax calls and threatens to set off a germ plague in Gotham City within the hour.
Batman and Superman start a manhunt across Gotham, but they are unable to find anything. With Susan restrained to her chair due to a detonation mechanism, the heroes struggle to find the source of the call. When most of the hour has passed, Superman and Batman deduce that the bomb must be inside the building and after evacuating the place, Superman takes the building to space, where he eventually finds the bombs, hidden in Susan's microphone. Batman then finds that Anthrax is in fact Susan's audio engineer, George Swope, who was infatuated with her and staged the whole Anthrax scheme to get her to notice him. Batman takes down the crook and Superman gets rid of the plague in space.
Upon returning to Earth, Susan reveals the truth to her audience and realizes the truth behind Batman's and Superman's earlier statements.
Appearing in Superman and Batman: "The Anthrax Hotline"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Susan "The Siren" LaSalle (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Anthrax (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Commissioner Gordon (Cameo)
- Johnny (Single appearance)
- General Zod (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Gotham City
- GCPD Headquarters
- WKBX Station
- Earth's Moon
Trivia
- General Zod appears in a flashback in this issue as Superman is talking about the Phantom Zone. However, his appearance more resembles that of General Zod from Superman II than how the Earth-One General Zod is usually portrayed.
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