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Issue: The Best of DC #71
Publication Date: April 1986
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Issues: #71 of 71 Issues (178 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: 01/03/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 148
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893173004
Price: $1.50 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
15 (11 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #23.
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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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Year's Best Comics Stories

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Ambush Bug
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Pages: 1
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Year's Best Comics Stories

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Table of contents.
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The Day the Earth Died!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Frank (Doorman at Clark Kent's apartment building); Lori Lemaris; Ronal
Synopsis: Superman contemplates dis-arming all the nuclear weapons on the Earth.
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Pages: 16
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Mogo Doesn't Socialize

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: science fiction, superhero
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Pages: 6
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Trick Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Trickster
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Pages: 23
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Brief Lives

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: science fiction, superhero
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Pages: 4
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Rite of Spring

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: horror
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Pages: 23
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The Silent Treatment

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 7
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Bits of (Ambush) Bugginess

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Ambush Bug; Superman; Batman; Wonder Woman
Synopsis: Ambush Bug makes the rounds to his fellow heroes trying to drum up appearances for Ambush Bug #1.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Original title: "$ellout or Manna from Mando." Three pages cut.
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The Ghost of Krypton Past!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: science fiction, superhero
Character(s): Superman; Adam Strange; Alanna; Sardath; Zazura
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Pages: 24
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Forever Blowing Bubbles

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Genres: science fiction, superhero
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Pages: 6
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Just As Night Follows Day...

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; Robin; Alfred; Julia Pennyworth; Vicki Vale; Commissioner Gordon; Harvey Bullock
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Hukka vs. the Bob!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hukka; BOB; Chris Champion (off-panel)
Synopsis: Chris buys the Hukka a new personal robot pal named BOB. But when BOB's antenna breaks, the robot goes on a rampage.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Penciller(s): various
Inker(s): various
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Digest Forum
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Comments about the changes made to stories to make them fit the digest format. Also small collage of issue covers from the stories.
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Final List

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. List of stories with cluttered bulletin board background.

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