1977-1987 Last/Final Issues
Newsstand. Last of all the DC Digests

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COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Best of DC 71
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #: 1127410004
Owner: MAY1979

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 at a distant Comic Shop 3 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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