World's Finest Comics #58 (of 323)
'Scoop' Smith, Boy Reporter /The Amazing Robot Archer / The Murder of Bruce Wayne
May 1st, 1952
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58
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'Scoop' Smith, Boy Reporter /The Amazing Robot Archer / The Murder of Bruce Wayne
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May 1st, 1952
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- Happy Hobby Time: (public service message by Superboy)
- 'Scoop' Smith, Boy Reporter: (Superman) Superman suspects Ned Gerritty, a reporter from the Daily Tatler of using underhanded tactics that endanger people to create stories and get scoops. At the same time, a boy genius named Euclid Smith has decided he wants to be a reporter for the Daily Planet but is brushed off by Perry, who tells him to come back when he is older. After Euclid scoops Ned on a rocket story Perry changes his mind and Euclid becomes the Planet's star reporter. then one day he resigned to take an offer from the Tatler that if he could scoop Superman on 3 stories he would get a lifetime contract as managing editor with full control of the paper. he seems to outsmart Superman 3 times and gets the job but then nearly sinks the paper with headlines about Boy Scout hikes and marble contests. Frustrated, the owner tries to shoot Euclid, but Superman saves him. It turns out, he helped Euclid get all those scoops to set the Tatler staff up.
- Word Round-Up: (a game of seeing how many words you can make from the letters in "broncobuster")
- The Amazing Robot Archer: (Green Arrow) The battling bowmen fight a robotic archer built like a tank.
- Peg: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- Quick Quiz:
- The Treasure In The Ice: (Wyoming Kid)
- Chief Hot-Foot: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- The Topsy-Turvy Treasure Hunt: (Tom Sparks, Boy Inventor)
- Private Pete: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- Of Spies and Men: (full-text story by Will Yolan)
- Jerry The Jitterbug: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- The Murder of Bruce Wayne: (Batman, Robin vs. Roger Keep) When an accident turns Rodger Keep into a bedridden invalid he holds the other people there (including Bruce Wayne) responsible and vows to see them dead.
- Little Pete: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff)
