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Issue: The Best of DC #25
Publication Date: June 1982
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Issues: #25 of 71 Issues (178 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: 02/09/1982
Volume: 4
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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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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The Man of Steel and His Favorite Kid-Pals

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-5061
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Best of DC -- Superman

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Inside front cover.
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The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Woodrow Nescott; Herbert Nescott; Kerry Nescott; Ted; Mac Nelson; Dan Marz
First Line: A spectacular, eye-popping feat -- nothing more than a morning exercise for the greatest hero of them all...
Synopsis: Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #422 published March 1973
was The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15
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The Baby Who Walked Through Walls!

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Petra Lewis; Michele Lewis; Mrs. Goldstein; Lance
First Line: Presenting another exciting escapade of the man behind the legend -- another chapter in...
Synopsis: Clark is flummoxed when a child he's babysitting keeps disappearing.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman #254 published July 1972
was The Baby Who Walked Through Walls! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Myrtle; Alice Norton; Martha Norton; John Norton
First Line: From the jungle-wilds of Africa, to the skyscrapers of New York, the name of Superman has spread its fame!
Synopsis: Superman restores the sight of a blind girl and reunites her family.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman #96 published March 1955
was The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
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World Beneath the North Pole!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): creatures of Miros (villains); Dr. Vernon Lombard; Jamie Lombard
First Line: In a land very much like our own and yet so very different...
Synopsis: Superman, along with Steve Lombard's nephew Jamie, rescue Jamie's father from Miros, a land in Earth's hollow core.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman #267 published September 1973
was World beneath the North Pole! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- and I Can Prove It!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Whirlicane (1st)
First Line: High above the suburbs of Metropolis, a familiar red-and-blue costumed figure zooms through the afternoon sky, his expression grim -- his eyes almost unseeing!
Synopsis: Superman exposes his secret identity to Jonathan Ross and defeats Whirlicane.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #457 published March 1976
was Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- And I Can Prove It! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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The Story of Superman, Junior

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman, Junior [Johnny Kirk]; Morton Kirk
First Line: One day in Smallville, Superman's boyhood home, startled townsfolk see a flying youth perform super-feats again!
Synopsis: Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #232 published September 1957
was The Story of Superman, Junior [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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The Kid with the Million-Dollar Smile!

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): unnamed Museum thieves (villains); Jason Fleece; Selma Fleece
First Line: Dear Diary: Ordinarily, I don't mind going out on an assignment with a partner...
Synopsis: Clark and Lola Barnett deal with a bratty child TV commercial star.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman #285 published March 1975
was The Kid with the Million-Dollar Smile! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Superman's Command Performance

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jerry; Arthur; Mike; Frank; Ryjel
First Line: There goes the giant meteor I sent hurtling on a collision course with Metropolis!
Synopsis: Superman is mentally controlled by children who don't realize what they are doing. Turns out an alien kid is participating in order to bring Superman to their clubhouse.
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From Content Item: FlagAction Comics #497 [Standard Cover] published July 1979
was Superman's Command Performance [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 17
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Swamp Thing Is Back!

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First Line: Because you demanded it -- the triumphant return of comicdom's most-honored adventure series!
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Disclose Notes: Promo advertisement for The Saga of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale February 11, 1982.
Inside back cover.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Woodrow Nescott; Michele Lewis; Alice Norton; Jamie Lombard; Superman, Junior [Johnny Kirk]; Jason Fleece; Mike
First Line: Meet Superman's kid-pals!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover blurb for the issue, presenting the featured characters in the stories in the issue.

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