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Issue: The Best of DC #26
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Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/16/1982
Volume: 4
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Mike W. Barr (editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
The Brave and the Bold

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jim Aparo (signed)
Jim Aparo (signed)
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Batman; Deadman; Robin Hood; Viking Prince; Silent Knight; Suicide Squad
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
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The Brave and the Bold

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike W. Barr ?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
Batman Presents the Brave and the Bold

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Mike W. Barr [as Mike Barr]
Jim Aparo (p. 1); Trevor von Eeden (pp. 2-3)
Jim Aparo (p. 1); Larry Mahlstedt (pp. 2-3)
?
?
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
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Characters who have starred in Brave and the Bold.
You Can't Hide from a Deadman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Haney
Neal Adams
Neal Adams
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman; Deadman
Deadman; Batman; Robin [Richard Grayson]
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #86 published October 1969
was You Can't Hide from a Deadman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Three Arrows Against Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Haney
Russ Heath
Russ Heath
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #9 published December 1956
was Three Arrows against Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
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Writer credit from index of original printing.
Menace of the Mirage People!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Suicide Squad
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #38 published October 1961
was Menace of the Mirage People! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
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Threat of the Ice King

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Haney
Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Viking Prince
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #18 published June 1958
was Threat of the Ice King [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
13
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Scripting credit from DC payment book. Scripting credit is erroneously given in this reprint to Robert Kanigher.
The Sword in the Lake!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Irv Novick
Irv Novick
?
?
Subject Matter
historical
The Silent Knight
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #21 published December 1958
was The Sword in the Lake! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
14
The Secret Beneath the Earth, Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Herron
Bruno Premiani (credited)
Bruno Premiani (credited)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Cave Carson Adventures Inside Earth
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #31 published August 1960
was The Secret Beneath the Earth, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
10
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Origin and first appearance.
[The Secret Beneath the Earth] Chapter 2: The Incredible Lava Creature

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Herron
Bruno Premiani
Bruno Premiani
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Cave Carson Adventures Inside Earth
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #31 published August 1960
was The Secret Beneath the Earth, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
[The Secret Beneath the Earth] Chapter 3: The Magnetic Monster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Herron
Bruno Premiani
Bruno Premiani
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Cave Carson Adventures Inside Earth
Reprinting
FlagThe Brave and the Bold #31 published August 1960
was The Secret Beneath the Earth, Chapter 1 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Swamp Thing Is Back!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Tom Yeates
Tom Yeates
?
Subject Matter
Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Promo for Swamp Thing #1, on sale February 11, 1982.
Six Star-Studded Spectaculars

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
various
various
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Batman; Deadman; Robin Hood; Viking Prince; Silent Knight
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Preview panels of the stories in the issue.

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