DC Comics · World's Finest Comics #163 · December 1966 · $0.12 · 32 pages
Grade: VF+ 8.5
Edited by Mort Weisinger. Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications, Inc.
Cover by Curt Swan and George Klein with lettering by Gaspar Saladino.
This Silver Age team-up issue features “The Court of No Hope!” (25 pages), written by Edmond Hamilton and illustrated by Curt Swan and George Klein. The story presents Superman, Batman, and Robin captured by a tribunal of major villains including the Joker, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, and the Penguin, who put the heroes on trial in a kangaroo court where they are forced to fight each other to the death while the assembled villains vote on their fate.
This classic Silver Age villain courtroom scenario would later be homaged in other comics and represents the era's characteristic high-concept team-up stories pairing DC's flagship heroes.
Condition VF+ 8.5 with heavy wear, reading copy, complete interior, structurally sound, and unrestored.
DC Comics · World's Finest Comics #163 · December 1966 · $0.12 · 32 pages
Grade: VF+ 8.5
Edited by Mort Weisinger. Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications, Inc.
Cover by Curt Swan and George Klein with lettering by Gaspar Saladino.
This Silver Age team-up issue features “The Court of No Hope!” (25 pages), written by Edmond Hamilton and illustrated by Curt Swan and George Klein. The story presents Superman, Batman, and Robin captured by a tribunal of major villains including the Joker, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, and the Penguin, who put the heroes on trial in a kangaroo court where they are forced to fight each other to the death while the assembled villains vote on their fate.
This classic Silver Age villain courtroom scenario would later be homaged in other comics and represents the era's characteristic high-concept team-up stories pairing DC's flagship heroes.
Condition VF+ 8.5 with heavy wear, reading copy, complete interior, structurally sound, and unrestored.
