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World's Finest #6 is an issue of the series World's Finest (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1942.

Synopsis for Superman: "Man of Steel versus Man of Metal"


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  • Karl Johnson
  • other leading businessmen

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  • super-strong armor suit

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Synopsis for Zatara: "Mystery of the Cat's Eye Spell"


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  • The Genius
    • his gang: Slugger, Trigger, others
  • Joe Vandercook

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  • Captain Charley Vandercook

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  • Genius's formula for seeing in the dark

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Synopsis for Drafty #158: "The Adventure of the Hungry Lion"


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  • Drafty #158

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Synopsis for Sandman: "The Adventure of the Magic Forest"

Sandman and Sandy clash with Nightshade, a criminal engineer who has built a gangster hideout in the form of a "haunted forest", near Gotham City, rigged up with deadly, electrically controlled, rubber and metal, fake plants. Sandman and Sandy destroy this set-up, and Nightshade is apparently killed, then the whole forest burns in an electrical fire.

Appearing in Sandman: "The Adventure of the Magic Forest"

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  • The Nightshade (First appearance) (Apparent Death)
    • his gang: Chunky Harris, others

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  • Toby Tucker, Sandy's friend
  • Mr. Tucker, and Nora Tucker, Toby's parents

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  • Earth-Two
    • Gotham City

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Synopsis for Star-Spangled Kid: "The Adventure of the King of Escape"


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  • Susan Aylesworth

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Synopsis for Red, White, and Blue: "Case of the Little Fuehrer"


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Synopsis for Aquaman: "The Zoo of the Deep"


Appearing in Aquaman: "The Zoo of the Deep"

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  • Pike Peers
    • his gang
  • Lorry Rogan (former associate of Black Jack)

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  • U.S. Coast Guard

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Synopsis for Lando, Man of Magic: "The Black Gold Touch"


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Synopsis for Batman: "The Secret of Bruce Wayne"

Batman is part of a new radio show called "The True Tales of Batman", where he tells the announcer some of his greatest stories and the actors at the radio station would recreate the stories. The executive editor of a newspaper asks his best reporter, Scoop Scanlon, to uncover Batman's real identity and so Scoop convinces Batman that he is making a series of articles about Batman in order to stop people from committing crimes. Batman agrees to be part of it and allows Scoop to go on some of their missions with Robin.

However, when word about Scoop's collaboration with Batman got around the underworld, some criminals forced the executive editor and Scoop to prepare a real trap for Batman. Scoop goes to the GCPD Headquarters and asks to activate the Bat-Signal that would summon Batman. Once the hero arrives, Scoop leads him to an abandoned building while driving the Batmobile. When Batman enters the building, he is ambushed by several criminals and Scoop thinks it's all part of the setup to reveal Batman's identity, but he learns that the thugs want to kill them both. Batman and Scoop are placed on some deadly trap until they're saved by Robin, who was hiding in the truck of the Batmobile.

After escaping the trap, Batman and Robin start investigating the criminals who attacked them, while Scoop was determined to find out the truth about Batman. They are both successful. Batman and Robin learn that the criminals are using the same schemes from another radio show to perform the hits and Scoop deduces that Bruce Wayne is Batman. During the next Batman radio show, the dark knight himself decides to be the host of the show to expose the criminals' scheme, while Scoop also took the chance to tell everyone that Batman is really Bruce Wayne.

When the show is over, Batman finally exposed the criminals and the mastermind behind it all: Graves, the radio host. Before he could be taken to prison, one of the thugs shoots at Batman, but one of the actors of the show jumps in front of the bullet and allows Batman to capture the criminals. With his dying breath, the actor wants to make something for Batman and the dark knight gives the actor the Batsuit to wear in order to fool Scoop. When the reporter sees that Bruce Wayne and Batman are two different people, he gives up his manhunt.

Later the actor, who helped Bruce during a dire situation, dies and Bruce regrets the loss of a great man.

Appearing in Batman: "The Secret of Bruce Wayne"

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    • "The Adventure of the Magic Forest" is reprinted in Wanted #9.
    • Page 10, Panel 1, Caption: "The wildly gyrating tentacle literally shakes the Nightshade to death, before it violently flings his body across the magic forest, where it disappears among the distant trees."
    • This story takes place before the events of All-Star Squadron #51, which takes place in early April 1942.
    • Sandy Hawkins is 14 years old at this time, per JSA Vol 1 1.
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