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Issue: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5

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Publication Date: November 1980

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Issues: #5 of 24 Issues (44 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC Blue Ribbon Digest

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 08/14/1980

Volume: 1

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893345212

Price: $0.95 USD

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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (6 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Joe Orlando (managing editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #182.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: 5" x 6.75" (12.7 cm x 17.1cm)

Paper Stock: Glossy cardstock cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 [Direct Sales]

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (11 total)

Secret Origins of Super-Heroes

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Batman; Zatara; Zatanna; Aquaman; The Demon; The Flash; Green Lantern; Wonder Woman; Martian Manhunter; Wonder Girl

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Secret Origins of Super-Heroes

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

The Secret Spell!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Zatara (origin); Zatanna (origin); Batman (cameo); Hawkman (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Atom (cameo); Green Lantern (cameo)

Synopsis: When Zatara disappears, Zatanna reads her father's diary, where he relates the events that showed him that he could perform magic by saying the words backwards.

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Pages: 10

The Origin of the Justice League

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Aquaman; Batman; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Martian Manhunter; Superman; Wonder Woman; Snapper Carr; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; aliens from Appellax (flashback); Amazons of Paradise Island (flashback)

Synopsis: The Justice League of America uses the occasion of its third anniversary to tell Snapper Carr about the formation of the League, involving the discovery of strange meteors that nearly doomed them forever.

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Pages: 26

Unleash the One Who Waits

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Demon (intro, origin); Morgaine Le Fey (aka Morgan LeFay, intro)

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Pages: 24

Earth's First Green Lantern!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Abin Sur; Pieface [Thomas Kalmaku]; Larifars (Energy Beings); Balzona (Energy Being)

Synopsis: Hal Jordan explains to Pieface why Abin Sur came to Earth in a spaceship when all Green Lanterns can travel thru space unaided.

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Pages: 10

Notes: Recap of how Hal Jordan got his power ring.

Who Has Been Lying in My Grave?

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Genres: occult

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Pages: 17

The Origin of Wonder Girl

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Robin; Kid Flash; Wonder Girl; Speedy

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Pages: 8

Detective Comics Is Now a 50¢ Comic!

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Zatanna's Quest

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Synopsis: Summary of Zatanna's quest for her father crossover appearances.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-616

Notes: Inside back cover.

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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman; Wonder Woman; Flash; Superman; Green Lantern; Aquaman; Martian Manhunter; Abin Sur; Wonder Girl; Zatara; The Demon; Zatanna; Deadman

First Line: Brand new-- The secret origin of Zatara the Magician...

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Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.