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Issue: The Best of DC #25
Publication Date: June 1982
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Issues: #25 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: 03/04/1982
Volume: 4
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893173006
Price: $0.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
12 (8 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #199.
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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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The Man of Steel and His Favorite Kid-Pals

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): Ross Andru (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-5061
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Best of DC -- Superman

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): E. Nelson Bridwell
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!

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; Woodrow Prescott; Herbert Prescott; Kerry Prescott; Mac Nelson; Dan Marz
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
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The Baby Who Walked Through Walls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Len Wein
Penciller(s): Neal Adams
Inker(s): Neal Adams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): The Private Life of Clark Kent
Character(s): Superman [only as Clark Kent]; Petra Lewis; Michelle Lewis; Mrs. Goldstein; Lance
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Finger
Penciller(s): Wayne Boring
Inker(s): Stan Kaye
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Alice Norton; Lois Lane; Martha Norton; John Norton
Synopsis: Superman restores the sight of a blind girl and reunites her family.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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World Beneath the North Pole!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Elliot Maggin
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): creatures of Miros (villains); Dr. Vernon Lombard; Superman; Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Steve Lombard; Jamie Lombard
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Pages: 16
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Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- and I Can Prove It!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Gerry Conway
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman; Whirlicane (1st); Pete Ross; Jonathan Ross; Steve Lombard
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Pages: 13
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The Story of Superman, Junior

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Coleman
Penciller(s): Wayne Boring
Inker(s): Stan Kaye
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman; Superman, Junior [Johnny Kirk]; Superboy (flashback)
Synopsis: Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.
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Pages: 12
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The Kid with the Million-Dollar Smile!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Martin Pasko
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Bob Oksner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Feature(s): The Private Life of Clark Kent
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Pages: 6
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Superman's Command Performance

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Cary Bates
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): Frank Chiaramonte
Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
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Pages: 17
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Swamp Thing Is Back!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tom Yeates
Inker(s): Tom Yeates
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Swamp Thing
Character(s): Swamp Thing
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Promo for Swamp Thing #1, on sale February 11, 1982.
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Meet Superman's Kid-Pals!

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): E. Nelson Bridwell
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Frank Giacoia
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Previews of the characters in the stories in the issue.

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