The Best of DC #38 [Direct]

(July 1983)

Best of DC #38 Superman (Table of Contents)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. Table of contents.

The Eliminator! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Leo Dorfman

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

Jack Abel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Dr. Phantas; Mark Sharpe; Joe Letterman; Chris Swan

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• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 (August 1969)

The Truth Mirror! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; "Flash" Dugan (villain); Fortress of Solitude; Superman Robot; Lois Lane Robot

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• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #269 (October 1960)

Indexer Notes

credits say G. Klein

The Demons from Pandora's Box! (Table of Contents)

Jimmy Olsen / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel

Pencils:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Inks:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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• from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #81 (December 1964)

The Enchanted Mountain! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

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Script:

Don Cameron

Pencils:

Ira Yarbrough

Inks:

Ira Yarbrough

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?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman

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• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #86 (July 1945)

The Spectre Suitor! (Table of Contents)

Lois Lane / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

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Script:

Cary Bates

Pencils:

Werner Roth

Inks:

Vince Colletta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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• from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #108 (February 1971)

The Spell of the Shandu Clock (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Script:

Jerry Coleman

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Shandu; Perry White; The Fallon Gang (Intro)

Synopsis:

Superman pretends to be under the influence of a mystical clock in order to make the Fallon Gang think he is helpless against their new weapon.

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• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #126 (January 1959)

The Ghost of Lois Lane (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Professor Grail

Synopsis:

After Superman accidentally causes Professor Grail's experimental teleporter chair to explode while Lois is sitting in it with his x-ray vision, he sees visions of a ghostly Lois. But Lois communicates through Jimmy's new typewriter to let Superman know that she is trapped in the fourth dimension and can be returned by the pull of a lever in Professor Grail's lab.

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• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #129 (May 1959)

The Black Magic of Supergirl! (Table of Contents)

Supergirl / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Leo Dorfman

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Supergirl; Green Kryptonite; Superman; Fred Danvers; Edna Danvers; Fortress of Solitude

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• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #324 (May 1965)

The Ghost that Haunted Clark Kent (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Leo Dorfman

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman [Clark Kent]; Dr. Troy Magnus

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• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #406 (November 1971)

Green Arrow (Table of Contents)

Green Arrow / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Script:

?

Pencils:

Trevor Von Eeden

Inks:

Dick Giordano

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Green Arrow

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Promo for Green Arrow mini-series on sale February 24, 1983.

[Story Titles] (Table of Contents)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:

Ed Hannigan [as Hannigan] (signed)

Inks:

Bob Smith [as Smith] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Synopsis:

Graveyard full of tombstones with the titles of the stories from inside the digest.

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Hannigan and Smith's names are on one tombstone.