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Issue: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #1
Publication Date: March 1980
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Issues: #1 of 24 Issues (44 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Blue Ribbon DigestView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/04/1979
Volume: 1
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893345204
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #175.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: digest (5" x 6.75")
Paper Stock: cardstock cover; newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Legion of Super-Heroes Featuring Superboy

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy]
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Pages: 1
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Legion of Super-Heroes

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Adventure Comics #247

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Writer(s): ? (original cover text)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #247 published April 1958
was The Legion of Super-Heroes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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The Legion of Super-Heroes

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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]; Jonathan Kent (cameo)
Synopsis: Three teens from the future offer Superboy membership in their super-hero club. But when Superboy fails to complete three simple tasks, the Legionnaires pretend to reject him, until they reveal that the three tasks were merely intitiation pranks which proved he is a good sport.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #247 published April 1958
was The Legion of Super-Heroes [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Lightning Lad called Lightning Boy in this story. There are several other unidentified Legionnaires in this story. The main Legionnaires are not in their usual costumes.
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The Rogue Legionnaire!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Colossal Boy; Shrinking Violet; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Superboy]; Universo; Rond Vidar
Synopsis: Universo steals a time bubble, and the Legionnaires use a student's time cube to travel to the past in search of him.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #349 published October 1966
was The Rogue Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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Part II: Ambushed Across the Ages!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Shrinking Violet; Chameleon Boy; Superboy]; Napoleon Bonaparte; Universo; Rond Vidar
Synopsis: Rond Vidar returns the Legionnaires to their own time and they stop Universo from taking hypnotic control of the United Planets Inner Council.
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Pages: 11
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The Legion of Substitute Heroes!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Shrinking Violet]; Legion of Substitute Heroes [Polar Boy; Night Girl; Stone Boy; Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid]
Synopsis: A group of rejected applicants band together as the Legion of Substitute Heroes and thwart the Plant Men's scheme to take over the Earth.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #306 published March 1963
was The Legion of Substitute Heroes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 14
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Adventure Comics #300

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad, Triplicate Girl; Mon-El]
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #300 published September 1962
was Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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The Fatal Five! Part I: To Save a Galaxy!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Ferro Lad; Superboy; Princess Projectra; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy]; Fatal Five [Tharok; Emerald Empress; Validus; Persuader; Mano]
Synopsis: As a last resort, the Legion decides to enlist the villainous Fatal Five to defend Earth from the Sun-Eater.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #352 published January 1967
was The Fatal Five! Part I: To Save a Galaxy! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #353 published February 1967
was The Doomed Legionnaire! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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Part II: An S.O.S. to Evil!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Ferro Lad; Princess Projectra; Superboy; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy]; Fatal Five [Tharok; Emerald Empress; Validus; Persuader; Mano]
Synopsis: After the Legionnaires collect each of the Fatal Five, the heroes and villains prepare to confront the Sun-Eater, while Tharok plans for the aftermath.
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Combines "An S.O.S. to Evil!" from Adventure Comics #352 (minus its final page) and "The Doomed Legionnaire!" from Adventure Comics #353 (minus its first page).
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Part III: Slain by the Sun-Eater!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Princess Projectra; Ferro Lad (death); Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Invisible Kid; Colossal Boy; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl]; Fatal Five [Persuader; Validus; Tharok; Emerald Empress; Mano]
Synopsis: Ferro Lad knocks out Superboy and sacrifices his life delivering the bomb which destroys the Sun-Eater.
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Pages: 12
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The Legion of Super-Heroes Current Membership

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Synopsis: List of Legion members, their civilian names, and powers. (List current as of December 1979, our time).
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Shadow Lass; Timber Wolf; Tyroc; Princess Projecta; Ultra Boy; Dream Girl; Wildfire; Light Lass; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet]
First Line: For the first time in one mighty magazine...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue. Headshots of the Legionnaires.

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