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Issue: The Best of DC #34
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Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/09/1982
Volume: 5
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893173003
Price: $1.25 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (3 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Bob Rozakis (editor); Nicola Cuti (editor); Carl Gafford (editor)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest (5" x 6.75")
Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Ed Hannigan [as Hannigan] (signed)
Bruce Patterson (signed with symbol)
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Iron; Gold; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Chemo
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Miscellaneous
1
C-232
Best of DC -- Metal Men

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
The Flaming Fiend!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Von Vroom
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Miscellaneous
47
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"The Flaming Doom" and "The Nightmare Menace" printed as one long story. All but the first panel of the original page 4, the second and third panels of the original page 5, the last panel of the original page 23, the second panel of the original page 24, and the third panel of the original page 25 of "The Flaming Doom" have been omitted here. The original page 1, panels 2 and 3 of the original page 11, and the first three panels of the original page 12 of "The Nightmare Menace" have been omitted here, though the original page 8 was expanded to fill an entire page.
The Deathless Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Chemo
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Miscellaneous
49
"The Deathless Doom!" combined with "The Day the Metal Men Melted" into one long story. The last two panels of "The Deathless Doom!" were omitted for this reprint, with the remaining panels of that page expanded to fill the page. The original page 1, the bottom two tiers of the original page 5, and the top tier of the original page 6 of "The Day the Metal Men Melted" were omitted for this reprint, though the original pages 8, 16, and 25 were expanded to each fill an entire page.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
?
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
Subject Matter
informational
Metal Facts and Fancies!
Mercury is the only metal to have a planet named after it...
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Composed of pieces from the fillers in Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #37 and 39.
2 Epic-Length Adventures!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Nicola Cuti ?
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Lead; Iron; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Promo for the interior stories.

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