The Best of DC
#34
[Direct]
(March 1983)
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD
- Pages
- 100
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-11-16
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC Blue Ribbon Digest
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Bob Rozakis (editor); Nicola Cuti (editor); Carl Gafford (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Metal Men / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ed Hannigan (signed as Hannigan)
- Inks
- Bruce Patterson (signed with symbol)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-232
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Metal Men [Iron; Gold; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Chemo
![Cover Thumbnail for The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #34 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/3/w200/3370.jpg?-5712169117445210548)
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The Flaming Fiend!
Metal Men / comic story / 47 pages
- Job Number
- J-8524
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Von Vroom
- Reprints
-
from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #37 (March-April 1962), #37 (March-April 1962), #37 (March-April 1962), #38 (May-June 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
"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!
Metal Men / comic story / 49 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Doc Magnus; Chemo
- Reprints
- from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #39 (July-August 1962), #40 (September-October 1962)
-
Indexer Notes
"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.
[no title indexed]
Metal Facts and Fancies! / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Mercury is the only metal to have a planet named after it...
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Composed of pieces from the fillers in Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #37 and 39.
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Metal Men -
1.
Best of DC -- Metal Men
-
2.
The Flaming Fiend!
Metal Men -
3.
The Deathless Doom!
Metal Men -
4.
["Mercury is the only metal to have a planet named after it..."]
Metal Facts and Fancies! -
5.
2 Epic-Length Adventures!
Metal Men
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Nick Caputo
- Mickey Coalwell
- Peter Croome
- Merlin Haas
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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