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Issue: The Best of DC #12

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Publication Date: May 1981

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Issues: #12 of 71 Issues (177 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC Blue Ribbon Digest

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/05/1981

Volume: 3

Pages: 100

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893173005

Price: $0.95 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (6 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Julius Schwartz

Notes: Copyright © 1981 DC Comics Inc.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #188.

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Variants2

The Best of DC #12 [Direct Sales]

The Best of DC #12 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (11 total)

Superman in the Past...Future...And on Other Worlds!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Ross Andru

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: S-5034

Best of DC -- Superman

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

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover.

Bus-Ride to Nowhere!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Cary Bates

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Nathan Warbow; Martin Thorpe; May Marigold; Jonathan Slaughter

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 23

The Sun of Superman!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Cary Bates

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Dr. Paul Reese

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Pages: 16

The Starry-Eyed Siren of Space!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Cary Bates

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Kond; Rija

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Pages: 18

Planet of the Angels

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Denny O'Neil

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Raphael; Michael; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Gabriel

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Pages: 15

Superman, You're Dead...Dead...Dead!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Leo Dorfman

Penciller(s): Curt Swan

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; George Custer

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Pages: 15

The Secret of the Space Souvenirs

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Al Plastino

Inker(s): Al Plastino

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane

Synopsis: Superman is compelled to collect trophies from space, but doesn't know why.

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Pages: 8

Two for You!

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

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Promos for DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #9 (on sale January 8, 1981) and The Best of DC #13 (on sale February 5, 1981). Covers are depicted.

Superman in Time-and-Space

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: informational

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-5036

Notes: Information about the stories in this issue.
On inside back cover.

Preview of the Issue

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

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Ross Andru

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Superman

Character(s): Superman

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Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Scenes from the interior stories.