WF3: World's Finest Three, Book Two of Two

Name: WF3: World's Finest Three, Book Two of Two (WF3, #2)
Rating: 3.81 (7 reviews)

Chuck Dixon, Karl Kesel, Tom Grummett (Pencilers)

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Superboy and Poison Ivy reach a small island of Hawaii where Ivy wants to use a fast growing plant and Superboy's powers to eliminate all other life.

Travelling in his normal guise, Tim Drake reaches Hawaii accompanied by Alfred. They are unaware that Metallo slipped into the cargo room of the plane. Metallo follows Robin as the Boy Wonder tries to find Superboy and Poison Ivy. Metallo is very interested in the Kryptonite ring that Robin took out of the Batcave to use it as a potential weapon against Superboy. After an initial attack by Metallo, Robin escapes and finds Superboy who no longer seems to be under Ivy's control. But he still is, so Robin uses the Kryptonite ring to snap Superboy out of his trance. But Ivy hits Robin from behind and takes the ring. While she threatens Superboy with the ring, Metallo shows up and Robin once again has to fight with him. Somehow Robin hacks Metallo's internal systems and controls him to go over a cliff. Robin is lucky that Superboy managed to free himself from Poison Ivy (and secure the ring) and is able to catch the Boy Wonder. However, Superboy still is weak and so Robin needs one of his grapples to save both of them from a deadly fall. Of course, Metallo is not destroyed and escapes the island under water.

After Poison Ivy is arrested by the police, Robin uses a trick to get the Kryptonite ring back from Superboy and then vanishes before Superboy is able to ask him about a phone number if they need to work together in the future.

After returning to the Batcave, Robin is happy to put the Kryptonite ring back into safe storage. Bruce congratulates him and Alfred - he obviously was well aware of what happened there in Hawaii ...

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Published December 1, 1996

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Chuck Dixon

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Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.

His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan.

In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing Airboy with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching Strike! with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and Valkyrie with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' Alien Legion series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.

His Punisher OGN Kingdom Gone (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly The Punisher War Journal (and later, more monthly and occasional Punisher titles), and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a Robin mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - The Joker's Wild (1991) and Cry of the Huntress (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics), and to Dixon working on Detective Comics from #644-738 through the major Batman stories KnightFall & KnightsEnd (for which he helped create the key character of Bane), DC One Million , Contagion , Legacy , Cataclysm and No Man's Land . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan.

He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing Detective Comics he pioneered the individual series for Robin , Nightwing (which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's #101) and Batgirl , as well as creating the team and book Birds of Prey .

While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics (and October 1994's Punisher/Batman crossover), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm/Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios. He also wrote many issues of Catwoman and Green Arrow , regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998.

In March, 2002, Dixon turned his attention to CrossGen's output, salthough he co-wrote with Scott Beatty the origin of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl in 2003's Batgirl: Year One. For CrossGen he took over some of the comics of the out-going Mark Waid, taking over Sigil from #21, and Crux with #13. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers. He also wrote the Ruse spin-off Archard's Agents one-shots in January and November '03 and April '04, the last released shortly before CrossGen's complete collapse forced the cancellation of all of its comics, before which Dixon wrote a single issue of Sojourn (May '04). Dixon's Way of the Rat #24, Brath #14 and El Cazador #6 were among the last comics released from the then-bankrupt publisher.

On June 10, 2008, Dixon announced on his forum that he was no longer "employed by DC Comics in any capacity."