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Issue: The Best of DC #34
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Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDC
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/16/1982
Volume: 5
Pages: 100
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 CAD
$1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dick Giordano (managing editor); Bob Rozakis (editor); Nicola Cuti (editor); Carl Gafford (editor)
Disclose Notes: Issue number on the cover of the direct sales edition is 497, an obvious production mix-up with Adventure Comics #497 published the same month.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 5" x 6.75"
Paper Stock: Glossy cardstock cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In1
reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Disclose Reprinted From6
Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Direct Edition
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
Newsstand Edition
 
Assets0
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Ed Hannigan [as Hannigan] (signed)
Bruce Patterson (signed with symbol)
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Iron; Gold; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Chemo
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
C-232
Best of DC -- Metal Men

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
The Flaming Fiend!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Von Vroom
Reprinting
FlagShowcase #37 published March 1962
was [Part I] The Flaming Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase #37 published March 1962
was Part II: The Metal Men vs The Flaming Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase #37 published March 1962
was Part III: The Metal Men vs The Flaming Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase #38 published May 1962
was The Nightmare Menace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
47
J-8524
"The Flaming Doom" and "The Nightmare Menace" printed as one long story. All but the first panel of the original page 4, the second and third panels of the original page 5, the last panel of the original page 23, the second panel of the original page 24, and the third panel of the original page 25 of "The Flaming Doom" have been omitted here. The original page 1, panels 2 and 3 of the original page 11, and the first three panels of the original page 12 of "The Nightmare Menace" have been omitted here, though the original page 8 was expanded to fill an entire page.
The Deathless Doom!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Kanigher
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Chemo
Reprinting
FlagShowcase #39 published July 1962
was The Deathless Doom! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShowcase #40 published September 1962
was The Day the Metal Men Melted! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
49
"The Deathless Doom!" combined with "The Day the Metal Men Melted" into one long story. The last two panels of "The Deathless Doom!" were omitted for this reprint, with the remaining panels of that page expanded to fill the page. The original page 1, the bottom two tiers of the original page 5, and the top tier of the original page 6 of "The Day the Metal Men Melted" were omitted for this reprint, though the original pages 8, 16, and 25 were expanded to each fill an entire page.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
Subject Matter
informational
Metal Facts and Fancies!
Mercury is the only metal to have a planet named after it...
Reprinting
FlagSuper Adventure Album #4 published January 1976
as Metal Facts and Fancies [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover. Composed of pieces from the fillers in Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #37 and 39.
2 Epic-Length Adventures!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Nicola Cuti ?
Ross Andru
Mike Esposito
?
Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
science fiction, superhero
Metal Men
Metal Men [Gold; Lead; Iron; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover. Promo for the interior stories.

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