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WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #253
Cover Date: October-November 1978
Cover Price: $1.00
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Cover Credits:
Art: Jim Aparo (signed)
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"Part II Masquerade of Menace"
"Part III Faces behind the Masks"
Credits:
| Story | Bob Haney |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Frank Chiaramonte |
| Lettering | Shelly Leferman |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | Jack C. Harris |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Princess Portia (last in issue #248; weds Prince Jon)
Villain(s):
- Doc Willard (last in issue #251)
- General Lazlo of Tybern (first appearance; attempts a coup of Tybern to attack Moldacia)
Other Character(s):
- Count Delos (first appearance)
- Prince Jon of Tybern (first appearance; ruler of a small European country bordering Moldacia; weds Princess Portia)
Location(s):
- Gotham City
- Tybern (first appearance; a very small European country that borders Moldacia)
"Chapter Two The Sound of Murder!"
Credits:
| Story | Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Trevor Von Eeden |
| Inks | Vince Colletta |
| Lettering | Shelly Leferman |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | Jack C. Harris |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Glorn (first appearance; humanoid residents of a buffer dimension between Earth-One and Two)
Guest Appearance(s):
- Hawkman (last in Justice League of America #212; next in Detective Comics #480/2)
- Hawkgirl (last in Justice League of America #210; next in Detective Comics #480/2)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Steve Ditko |
| Art | Steve Ditko |
| Lettering | Shelly Leferman |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | Jack C. Harris |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- An umnamed architect (first appearance; creates a machine that destroys buildings; possibly dies)
- Rollo the Wrecker (first appearance; a spherical machine that can wreck buildings; destroyed)
Location(s):
- Gotham City
- Cosmic Broadcasting Building
Story Reprinted in:
- The Creeper by Steve Ditko (2010)
Credits:
| Story | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Pencils | Don Newton |
| Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Lettering | Jean Simek |
| Colors | Cory Adams |
| Editing | Jack C. Harris |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- King Kull (also in flashbacks to a version of her origin)
- Captain Nazi
- Doctor Sivana
- Ebenezer Batson
- "Satan"
Guest Appearance(s):
- Jim Barr (last in Justice League of America #137)
Other Character(s):
Location(s):