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Issue: The Best of DC #64
Publication Date: September 1985
 
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/06/1985
Volume: none
Pages: 100
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UPC/EAN: 0709893173009
Price: $2.00 CAD
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15 (12 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Nicola Cuti (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
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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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Superboy and the Legion Battle the Moby Dick of Space!

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Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]; Moby Dick of Space
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Wrap-around cover.
Best of DC -- The Legion of Super-Heroes

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Inside front cover. Table of contents and indicia information.
Superboy and the Five Legion Traitors

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Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Ultra Boy; Invisible Kid; Brainiac 5; Element Lad]; Police Chief Parker; Lana Lang
Superboy accidentally arrives in a parallel world where the Legion are villains.
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[Part I]: The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire!

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Triplicate Girl; Cosmic Boy; Invisible Kid; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Star Boy; Colossal Boy; Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet]; Dynamo Boy [Vorm]; Pargg; Eye-ful Ethel; The Mess
Space pirate Vorm joins the Legion as Dynamo Boy and begins to eliminate the Legionnaires.
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Part II: The Victory of the Evil Legionnaire!

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Shrinking Violet; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Triplicate Girl; Ultra Boy; Star Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Colossal Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid; Lightning Lad; Light Lass]; Dynamo Boy
Dynamo Boy expels the remaining Legionnaires and makes plans for a new member drive.
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Continues in next story.
[Part I]: The Triumph of the Legion of Super-Villains!

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Dynamo Boy; Golden Boy; The Polecat; Animal Lad; The Tusker; Legion of Super-Villains [Lightning Lord; Saturn Queen; Cosmic King]; Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Stone Boy; Chlorophyll Kid; Night Girl; Fire Lad; Polar Boy]
Dynamo Boy accepts as members the Legion of Super-Villains, over the Subs' objections.
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Story continues from previous story.
Part II: The Revolt of the Super-Villains!

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Dynamo Boy; Legion of Super-Villains [Lightning Lord; Cosmic King; Saturn Queen]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Mon-El; Element Lad; Shrinking Violet; Triplicate Girl; Invisible Kid; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy]
The LSV turns on Dynamo Boy and sends him into the future. The ex-Legionnaires, keeping track of events from far off, challenge the LSV to a final confrontation.
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Part I: The Super-Moby Dick of Space!

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy; Ultra Boy]; Dr. Lanphier
Lightning Lad loses an arm to the Super-Moby Dick of Space. When Ultra Boy fails to subdue the space creature, Lightning Lad leads a team against it.
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This reprinting credits John Forte as the only artist. However, Mort Weisinger's records credit George Klein, as does the ICG Legion of Super-Heroes index. Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 2 also credits George Klein.
Part II: The Cosmic Quest of Lightning Lad!

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Superboy; Colossal Boy; Ultra Boy; Sun Boy]; Dr. Lanphier
Lightning Lad shrinks the space creature to its original size with the help of the scientist who accidentally enlarged it.
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This reprinting credits John Forte as the only artist. However, Mort Weisinger's records credit George Klein, as does the ICG Legion of Super-Heroes index. Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 2 also credits George Klein.
Part I: The War between Krypton and Earth!

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Star Boy; Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Triplicate Girl]; Zat-El; Leta Lal
The Legionnaires travel to the past to find out the story behind an ancient artifact which refers to a war between Earth and Krypton. The half that goes to Earth's past finds space travellers colonizing ancient Atlantis; the other half accompanies a group of Kryptonians who leave anti-scientific Krypton for Earth.
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Part II: The Civil War of the Legion

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Star Boy; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Element Lad; Mon-El]; Zat-El; Leta Lal; Jhor Lal
While the Atlanteans and Kryptonians fight, Brainiac 5 discovers why Earth's air irritates the Atlanteans and helps them adapt to life under the sea. Later, back in the future, Superboy finds more artifacts that explain what happened to the Kryptonians.
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Part I: The Unknown Legionnaire

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Brainiac 5; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Supergirl [also as Unknown Boy]; Cosmic Boy; Chameleon Boy; Phantom Girl]; Norm Eldor
Superboy recalls a case when the Legionnaires were helped by a hero called Unknown Boy.
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Part II: The Secret of Unknown Boy

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Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Supergirl [also as Unknown Boy]; Mon-El]; Norm Eldor
After Unknown Boy helps the Legion finish a case, Superboy figures out that under the costume is Supergirl. Supergirl then recalls going through a red kryptonite cloud and losing her memory, but knowing she had to protect her secret identity, and so creating the Unknown Boy costume.
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Legion Headquarters

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[untitled]

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The Story Behind the Stories
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Inside back cover. Discussion of the stories in the issue.

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