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Issue: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22

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Publication Date: June 1982

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Issues: #22 of 24 Issues (44 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

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Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC Blue Ribbon Digest

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 03/04/1982

Volume: 3

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893345206

Price: $0.95 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #199.

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Format

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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2 DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22 [Direct]

DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (11 total)

Secret Origins of Super-Heroes

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy]; Green Lantern; Inferior Five [Dumb Bunny; Awkwardman; The Blimp; Merryman; White Feather]

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Pages: 1

Job Number: C-890

Secret Origins of Super-Heroes Contents

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

SOS Green Lantern

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (intro, origin); Green Lantern [Abin Sur] (intro)

Synopsis: Hal Jordan is selected by the power ring of Abin Sur to become a Green Lantern.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Reprints introduction and origin of the Silver Age Green Lantern.

Secret of the Flaming Spear!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Carol Ferris (intro); Willard Ferris (intro); saboteurs (villains); Frank Nichols (Pilot)

Synopsis: Saboteurs try to crash a new experimental aircraft created by Ferris Aircraft.

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Pages: 9

Notes: Reformatted to fill nine full pages.

The Coming of the Costumed Incompetents

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Genres: humorous

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Pages: 24

Notes: 1st appearance

I Was the Man with Animal Powers

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Animal Man

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Pages: 16

Notes: Reprints origin & first appearance. Script credited to France E. Herron on splash page.

Black Lightning

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): P. G. Lisa

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 17

Notes: Reprints origin and first appearance.

Target-- 21 Legionnaires! Part 1: And Then There Were None!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Phantom Girl; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Dr. Regulus

Synopsis: After Invisible Kid is elected new Legion leader, the Legion performs at a charity benefit where Sun Boy is hurt and loses his memory. But it may not be an accident, but rather the work of Dr. Regulus, who has taken Legion headquarters right out of the ground.

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Pages: 11

Notes: Origin of Sun Boy.

Part II: Birds in a Golden Cage

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Phantom Girl; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Dr. Regulus

Synopsis: The Legionnaires trace their purloined headquarters to Dr. Regulus' spaceship, but it takes Sun Boy to bring him down.

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Pages: 13

Swamp Thing Is Back!

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for Swamp Thing series.

Stories in the Issue

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Duo Damsel; Colossal Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5]; Green Lantern; Inferior Five [Dumb Bunny; Awkwardman; The Blimp; Merryman; White Feather]; Black Lightning

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue.