World's Finest Comics
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World's Finest Comics was a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1941 to 1986. The series was initially titled World's Best Comics for its first issue; issue #2 (1941) switched to the more prominent name. Every issue featured DC's two leading superheroes, Superman and Batman. The series was initially a 96 page quarterly anthology, featuring various DC characters - always including Superman and Batman - in separate stories. When superheroes fell out of vogue in the 1950s, DC shortened the size of the publication to that of the rest of its output, leaving only enough space for one story; this led to Superman and Batman appearing in the same story together starting with World's Finest #71 (1954). The series continued in this vein until its cancellation in 1986 at #323.
A number of World's Finest titles have since appeared:
- a three-issue 1990 miniseries by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude
- a three-issue Legends of the World's Finest miniseries in 1994, spinning off of the popular Legends of the Dark Knight anthology
- a two-issue Superboy/Robin: World's Finest Three in 1996
- Batman/Superman Adventures: World's Finest one-shot in 1997, adapting the Batman/Superman team-up in The Batman/Superman Adventures cartoon
- Elseworlds' Finest: Supergirl/Batgirl one-shot in 1998
- Superman and Batman: World's Funnest, featuring Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite