Welcome to episode four of SUPERMAN & BATMAN, featuring your two favorite heroes in one podcast together!

The show’s premise is simple: Each episode, host Michael Bradley celebrates seven decades of the World’s Finest heroes by looking at stories featuring the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight, chosen at random mostly from the pages of World’s Finest Comics.

This episode

“The Shadow of the Executioner”

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: World’s Finest Comics #299 (cover date January 1984)

WHAT TO EXPECT: Superman and Batman against the Pantheon (or not)!

ALSO FEATURING: A non-sequitur David Bowie reference!

PLUS: A look at what else was on the stands!

DOWNLOAD: Directly or via iTunes

Bonus feature

This issue contains this completely awesome ad for Superman Peanut Butter. The background art is by Joe Shuster and lifted from ACTION COMICS #1. But who drew the main Superman image? If you know, be sure to write in!

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