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Issue: The Best of DC #22
Publication Date: March 1982
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Issues: #22 of 71 Issues (177 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Blue Ribbon DigestView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/03/1981
Volume: 4
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893173003
Price: $0.95 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
11 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Disclose Notes: Copyright © 1981 DC Comics Inc.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #197.
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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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Christmas with the Super Heroes

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Rich Buckler (signed)
Inker(s): Dick Giordano (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Teen Titans [Aqualad [Garth]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]]; Captain Marvel, Jr. [Freddy Freeman]
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Pages: 1
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Best of DC -- Christmas with the Super-Heroes

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: inside front cover.
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The TT's Swingin' Christmas Carol!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Haney
Penciller(s): Nick Cardy
Inker(s): Nick Cardy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Joe Letterese
Editor(s): George Kashdan (original editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Teen Titans
Character(s): Teen Titans [Robin [Dick Grayson]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]; Aqualad [Garth]]; Ebenezer Scrounge; Bob Ratchet; Tiny Tom Ratchet; Jacob Farley; Mr. Big (real name unknown); Mr. Big's unnamed crew
Synopsis: After Tiny Tom Ratchet discovers that his father's employer, Mr. Scrounge, is letting criminals use the junkyard for illicit activity, he contacts the Teen Titans — who, noting the situation's parallels to Dickens' classic tale, haunt Scrounge as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
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Pages: 23
Disclose Notes: The second page of the original story has been cut, but the three half-pages are expanded to full-pages.
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Merry Christmas

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Denny O'Neil
Penciller(s): Irv Novick
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Milt Snappin ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman
Character(s): Batman; Chimp Manners
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Pages: 6
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Freddy Freeman's Christmas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Woolfolk
Penciller(s): Bud Thompson
Inker(s): Bud Thompson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Captain Marvel, Jr.
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Pages: 8
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A Christmas Peril!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Don C. Cameron
Penciller(s): Jerry Robinson
Inker(s): Jerry Robinson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Ira Schnapp
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman and Robin
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Pages: 12
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The Seal Men's War on Santa Claus

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Michael Fleisher
Penciller(s): Jack Kirby
Inker(s): Mike Royer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Mike Royer
Editor(s): Joe Orlando
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Sandman
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Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Originally scheduled to be published in The Sandman (DC, 1974 series) #7, and then scheduled to be integrated into a 25-page story in Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth (DC, 1972 series) #61, but both comics were cancelled before these issues were published.
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Robin's (Very) White Christmas!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Rozakis
Penciller(s): José Delbo
Inker(s): Vince Colletta
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Milt Snappin ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Robin
Character(s): Robin; Lori Elton; Frank McDonald; Batman; Alfred Pennyworth; Aunt Harriet
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Story title corrected from original.
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The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Dick Dillin
Inker(s): Dick Giordano
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Milt Snappin ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Justice League
Character(s): Justice League of America [JLA; Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo); The Atom [Ray Palmer] (cameo); Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny] (cameo); Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Red Tornado [John Smith] (new costume); Aquaman [Arthur Curry] (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (cameo); Phantom Stranger (cameo)]; Sue Dibny (cameo); Iris Allen (cameo); Mera (cameo); Kathy Sutton (cameo); Green Lantern [John Stewart]; Santa Simpson; Eric Russell (Iris's father); Fran Russell (Iris's mother); The Key (villain)
Synopsis: The murder of a department store Santa Claus puts the JLA on the tail of the Key and his scheme to kill the JLA.
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Pages: 20
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Another Dynamite Comic from the House of Daring Concepts!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): Todd Klein
Subject Matter
Genres: anthropomorphic, superhero
Feature(s): Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew. Cover to #1 is depicted. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.
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Holiday Greetings

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Pérez
Inker(s): George Pérez
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Batman; Robin; Green Arrow; Black Canary; Captain Marvel Jr.; Kid Flash; Aqualad; Wonder Girl; Sandman
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Characters from the stories depicted on ornaments on a Christmas tree.

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