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Issue: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8
Publication Date: April 1981
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Issues: #8 of 24 Issues (44 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Sales
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Blue Ribbon DigestView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 2
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 USD
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Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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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The Dark Circle; The Fatal Five

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Karate Kid; Shadow Lass; Star Boy; Phantom Girl]
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Legion of Super-Heroes Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Escape of the Fatal Five

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Shadow Lass (intro); Brainiac 5; Karate Kid; Superboy; Cosmic Boy]; Fatal Five [Mano; Tharok; Emerald Empress; Persuader; Validus]
Synopsis: The Legion is sent to Talok VIII to investigate its sudden belligerence, with its native heroine Shadow Lass, and fall into separate traps designed for each one of them. The Legionnaires escape their traps, but their energy in doing so powers the Fatal Five's escape from the dimension into which they were flung after their last encounter with the Legion.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #365 published February 1968
was Escape of the Fatal Five! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Story continues in the following sequence.
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The Fight for the Championship of the Universe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Karate Kid; Superboy; Brainiac 5]; Shadow Lass; Fatal Five [Validus; Emerald Empress; Tharok; Persuader; Mano]
Synopsis: The Legion discovers that the Fatal Five were behind the belligerence of Talok VIII, while the Fatal Five head to Earth and its Universal Weapons Control Panel. But the Fatal Five discover they need a third key held at Legion Headquarters to operate the weapon. By the time they get there it is being defended by the returned Legionnaires. The Legionnaires fight the Fatal Five long enough for the U.P. Forces to come to their rescue and force the Five to flee.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #366 published March 1968
was The Fight for the Championship of the Universe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
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No Escape from the Circle of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Duo Damsel; Cosmic Boy; Superboy; Phantom Girl; Invisible Kid; Sun Boy; Karate Kid; Ferro Lad (statue); Star Boy; Brainiac 5]; Fatal Five [Validus; Emerald Empress; Tharok; Persuader; Mano] (all in cameo); The Dark Circle; Sensei
Synopsis: While the new Legion Headquarters is being built, Karate Kid heads to Japan, while The Dark Circle watches from afar. The Dark Circle invades Japan, and everything seems hopeless until Brainiac 5 uses the Miracle Machine, a gift from a Controller, to repel the invasion.
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #367 published April 1968
was No Escape from the Circle of Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 24
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Lost: A Million Miles from Home!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Shrinking Violet]
Synopsis: Colossal Boy and Shrinking Violet are stuck on a cruiser with no power, except when Colossal Boy isn't on it.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperboy #202 published May 1974
was Lost: A Million Miles from Home! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Fatal Five [Emerald Empress; Persuader; Tharok; Validus; Mano]; Lana Lang; Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Element Lad; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid; Chameleon Boy [also as Mano]; Mon-El; Colossal Boy]
Synopsis: At a carnival in his own time period, Superboy faces the Fatal Five. A Legion team trails the Fatal Five to Superboy's time, while, due to a time-distortion machine placed in Superboy's time by the Fatal Five, the rest of the Legion and their headquarters fade from existence in the future. The Legion team in Superboy's time disables the time-distorting machine, and so in the future Legion headquarters rematerializes, imprisoning Mano and Tharok.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperboy #198 published October 1973
was The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 20
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Legion Cover Gallery

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes
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From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #365 published February 1968
was Escape of the Fatal Five! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #366 published March 1968
was Battle for the Championship of the Universe! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
From Content Item: FlagAdventure Comics #367 published April 1968
was No Escape from the Circle of Death! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Small reprints of the covers for the three stories in the issue.
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Who are the Legion's Greatest Foes?

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Duo Damsel; Bouncing Boy; Phantom Girl; Karate Kid; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Colossal Boy]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue, surrounded by headshots of Legion members.

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