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Issue: The Best of DC #66
Publication Date: November 1985
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Issues: #66 of 71 Issues (177 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: 07/09/1985
Volume: none
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 CAD
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Nicola Cuti
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #18.
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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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Superman Team-up Action!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Dennis Jensen
Inker(s): Dennis Jensen
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman; Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Dawnstar]; Justice League of America [Green Lantern; Flash; Aquaman; Batman; Hawkman]
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Pages: 1
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Best of DC -- Superman Team-up Action!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Table of contents.
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Sun-Stroke!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Inker(s): Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Colorist(s): Shelley Eiber
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman and Metal Men
Character(s): Gold; Tin; Platinum; Lead; Mercury; Iron (all as the Metal Men); Superman; Chemo (villain); S.T.A.R. Labs; Dr. Jenet Klyburn; Hawkman [Katar Hol] (flashback); Hawkwoman [Shayera Thal] (as Hawkgirl, flashback); I.Q. (villain)
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From Content Item: FlagDC Comics Presents #4 [DC] published December 1978
was Sun-Stroke! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 23
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The Prisoner of the Kryptonite Asteroid!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Haney
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): Helen Vesik
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman & Batman
Character(s): Superman; Batman; Justice League of America [Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Hawkman [Kartar Hol]; Wonder Woman; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]]; James Gordon; Mad Dog Doyle; Ram Drood; Kor-El [The Parasite]; Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Dr. Gan-Zir (flashback); Morgan Edge (cameo); Jimmy Olsen (cameo); Lois Lane (cameo); President of the United States (cameo)
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From Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #246 published August 1977
was The Prisoner of the Kryptonite Asteroid! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Disclose Notes: Story continues in the next sequence. The President slightly resembles Jimmy Carter, but is not named.
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Last Hurrah for a Superman?!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Haney
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
Colorist(s): Karin Orlando
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman and Batman
Character(s): Superman; Kor-El [The Parasite]; Batman; Mad Dog Doyle; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Morgan Edge; The Atom; James Gordon (flashback); Ram Drood (flashback); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Dr. Gan-Zir (flashback); Justice League of America [Hawkman [Kartar Hol]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Wonder Woman; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]] (flashback); President of the United States (flashback)
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From Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #247 published October 1977
was The Last Hurrah for a Superman?! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 20
Disclose Notes: Story continued from previous sequence. The President slightly resembles Jimmy Carter, but is not named.
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To Live in Peace -- Nevermore

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Levitz
Penciller(s): Dick Dillin
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): George Roberts
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Superman & Legion of Super-Heroes
Character(s): Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Dawnstar; Saturn Girl (all as the Legion of Super-Heroes); Superman; Nyrvns; Steve Lombard; Superman Robots; Pete Ross; Jon Ross
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From Content Item: FlagDC Comics Presents #13 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1979
was To Live in Peace-- Nevermore! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 17
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Judge, Jury...and No Justice!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Levitz
Penciller(s): Dick Dillin
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): Jeanine Casey
Letterer(s): Todd Klein
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman vs Superboy
Character(s): Superman; Superboy; Pete Ross (villain); Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Steve Lombard; Krypto
Synopsis: Superman is surprised by an attack from Superboy -- actually Pete Ross who has used both a time-traveling machine and a mind-transfer machine to draw Superboy into the future and switch minds with him -- who puts Superman on trial before his own friends, accusing Superman of allowing his son Jon Ross to be taken by aliens. When the jury refuses to convict Superman, Pete prepares to execute him. But back in Smallville, Superboy, in Pete's body, has broken loose and summoned Krypto. Krypto attacks Pete and frees Superman, and Pete and Superboy are restored to their proper bodies.
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From Content Item: FlagDC Comics Presents #14 [DC] published October 1979
was Judge, Jury... and No Justice! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 17
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Nicola Cuti
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Digest Forum
First Line: My feelings about the contents of previous digests...
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Pages: 1
Job Number: L-2050
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Letter from Randy Newton
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Story Previews

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Dennis Jensen [as Jensen] (signed)
Inker(s): Dennis Jensen [as Jensen] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy; Superman; Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Chemo
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Two scenes from stories in the issue.

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