DC 100 Page Digests
Best of DC 71

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Comic Description: Best of DC 71
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 1127410004
Owner: MAR1979

SET DETAILS

Custom Sets: 1977-1987 Last/Final Issues
Sets Competing: Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest  Score: 144
DC 100 Page Digests  Score: 144
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Have memories of first seeing this book in the quarter section of distant Comic Shop years after it was released

Newsstand Edition Final Issue, Cover dated April 1986

Difficult to find high series number - issues 41-71 are considered to have a much lower print run than the earlier issues.

Not only the final issue of Best Of DC but the last of the DC Digests. Difficult to find high series number - issues 42-71 are considered to have a much lower print run than the earlier issues.



Cover Date: April 1986
Release Date: January 3, 1986
Format: 148 Page Digest
Cover Price: $1.50
Contents: Year's Best Comics Stories

Stories:

Superman: "The Day the Earth Died"(16 pages)
Ed Hannigan (Plotter) Paul Kupperberg (Scripter) Curt Swan (Penciller) Al Williamson (Inker)
Reprinted From: Superman #408 (1985)

Green Lantern Corps: "Mogo Doesn't Socialize"(6 pages)
Alan Moore (Writer) Dave Gibbons (Artist/Letterer)
Reprinted From: Green Lantern #188 (1985)

Blue Devil: "Trick Trap"(23 pages)
Gary Cohn (Writer) Dan Mishkin (Writer) Keith Giffen (Penciller) Gary Martin (Inker)
Reprinted From: Blue Devil #8 (1985)

Vega: "Brief Lives"(4 pages)
Alan Moore (Writer) Kevin O'Neill (Artist)
Reprinted From: Omega Men #26 (1985)

Swamp Thing: "Rite of Spring"(23 pages)
Alan Moore (Writer) Steve R. Bissette (Penciller) John Totleben (Inker)
Reprinted From: Saga of Swamp Thing #34 (1985)

"The Silent Treatment"(7 pages)
Mike W. Barr (Writer) Jerome K. Moore (Artist)
Reprinted From: Batman and the Outsiders #21 (1985)

Ambush Bug: "Bits of (Ambush) Bugginess"(5 pages)
Keith Giffen (Plotter/Penciller) Robert Loren Fleming (Scripter)
Reprinted From: Action Comics #565 (1985)

Superman/Adam Strange: "The Ghost of Krypton Past"(24 pages)
Cary Bates (Writer) Klaus Janson (Artist)
Reprinted From: DC Comics Presents #82 (1985)

Green Lantern Corps: "Forever Blowing Bubbles"(6 pages)
Mike Baron (Writer) Marshall Rogers (Artist)
Reprinted From: Green Lantern #187 (1985)

Batman: "Just as Night Follows Day..."(23 pages)
Doug Moench (Writer) Gene Colan (Penciller) Alfredo P. Alcala (Inker)
Reprinted From: Batman #383 (1985)

Hukka: "Hukka Vs. the Bob"(7 pages)
Keith Giffen (Plotter/Penciller) Robert Loren Fleming (Scripter) Karl Kesel (Inker)
Reprinted From: Atari Force #20 (1985)



 
 
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