Comic Title: Showcase Presents:World's Finest Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: October 22, 2008 Direct Market Date October 15, 2008
Source: Previews, #238

Direct Market Date October 22, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Menace of the Future Man"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Dick Sprang
Inker: Sheldon Moldoff

Reprinted From:
World's Finest Comics #135 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Justice League of America #22; next appearance in Superman #163)
• Batman (last appearance in Justice League of America #22; next appearance in Detective Comics #318)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #157; next appearance in Detective Comics #318)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #157; next appearance in Detective Comics #318)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #157; next appearance in Detective Comics #320)
• Carter Nichols (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #132; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #138)
• Ace the Bat-Hound (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #134; next appearance in Detective Comics #318)

Villain(s)

• Rak Durr and his assistants (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• John Durr (Rak’s twin brother; no further appearances)
• A government council (no further appearances)
• Thor and his tribe (tribal Norsemen; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin discover a man collecting Kryptonite. They are unable to stop him, but learn that the man is a time traveler from the future. Batman contacts Superman, then pursues the man into the past using the time machine of Professor Nichols.

Superman pursues the man into the future, where he discovers the man’s twin brother John Durr, the inventor of the time machine. The assistants of John’s brother Rak capture Superman with some Kryptonite and wait for their leader’s return.

Batman and Robin are unable to stop Rak in the past, as the crook steals a meteorite fragment fashioned into a hammer by norsemen. When Batman returns to the present, more Kryptonite is stolen, this time from the Bat-Cave. The Caped Crusader finally finds and defeats Rak, then travels into the future to rescue Superman.