Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Ridiculously Obscure Trivia Question!

Thinking cap time, folks!

This is the cover to World's Finest Comics #184 (1969):

What is unique and trivia worthy about this cover (by Curt Swan and Mike Esposito)?

Keep thinking...no, you're wrong!!

Try again--what makes this cover so noteworthy?

Well, the reply to this letter from World's Finest #187 gives us our answer...

This was the first World's Finest cover ever without Batman on it!!!

Now you know...the rest of the story...

If you got that right, go buy yourself something nice today...
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5 comments:

  1. Britt ReidNovember 19, 2014 at 8:40 AM

    "This was the first World's Finest cover ever without Batman on it!!!"
    Psst...he's in the tomb!
    (Not to mention in the upper right-hand corner!)

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  2. ArionNovember 19, 2014 at 10:13 AM

    That was an interesting little trivia.
    Anyway, that cover is really good.

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  3. JohnnyBobNovember 19, 2014 at 12:25 PM

    "Psst...he's in the tomb!"

    Or is he?

    He's done that before. Or since.

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  4. snellNovember 19, 2014 at 2:25 PM

    Britt & Johnny--As it turns out, Batman's not in the tomb...he was presumed disintegrated, but actually he was teleported away and brainwashed into becoming a villain! Because imaginary story.

    And title logos don't count...

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  5. Martin GrayNovember 19, 2014 at 3:05 PM

    Well, going by DC logic, I reckon this cover, from a year earlier, is the first with no Batman in the cover scene.


    http://www.comics.org/issue/21856/cover/4/

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