The Best of DC #68 [Direct]
(January 1986)

DC, 1979 Series
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Price
1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD
Pages
100
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-09-10
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC Blue Ribbon Digest
Editing
Nicola Cuti (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #20.
This issue has variants:

Halloween Special! (Table of Contents)

Sugar & Spike / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Genre
humor; children
Characters
Sugar; Spike

Sugar and Spike (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Supar & Spike Turn into a Pair of Halloween Cats! (Table of Contents: 2)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 13.33 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Jeanine Casey
Letters
?

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Digest Forum / letters page / 3.5 pages (report information)

Script
Nicola Cuti
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman...

Indexer Notes

Letters page starts on bottom third of page 10 of the digest, continues on the bottom third of pages 16, 26, 38, 44, 50, 58, 64 (1/2 page), and 70, and concludes on the bottom third of page 84. Letters from Elaine Gosselin, Adam Burchess, and Ken Zoechler.

The Day the Trees Got Sloppy! (Table of Contents: 4)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer
Inks
Sheldon Mayer
Colors
George Roberts
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Sugar & Spike Meet a Real Halloween Goblin (Table of Contents: 5)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 9.67 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
George Roberts
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Sugar & Spike Meet Space Sprout (Table of Contents: 6)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 13.33 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Shelley Eiber
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Uncle Charley's Talking Pumpkin! (Table of Contents: 7)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
George Roberts
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Sugar and Spike Get Up in the World (Table of Contents: 8)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Karin Orlando
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Space-Sprout Returns! (Table of Contents: 9)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 5.5 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Shelley Eiber
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Sugar & Spike's Adventures with the 4000-Year-Old Baby! (Table of Contents: 10)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Karin Orlando
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

The Shiny Round Roller (Table of Contents: 11)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Jeanine Casey
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Sugar & Spike's Adventure with Real Halloween Magic! (Table of Contents: 12)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
Helen Vesik
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Across 21 pages, but 3 pages are only 2/3 of a page each.

[All-New Excitement] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Super Friends / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Coming in Best of DC #70 (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Binky / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Who's Who (Table of Contents: 15)

Sugar & Spike / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer [as S.M.] (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer [as S.M.] (signed)
Colors
Karin Orlando
Letters
Sheldon Mayer

Genre
humor; children
Reprints

How Well Do You Know Your Sugar & Spike Baby-Talk? (Table of Contents: 16)

Sugar & Spike / activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer ?
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer ?
Inks
Sheldon Mayer ?
Letters
Sheldon Mayer ?

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover; black and white.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17)

Sugar & Spike / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Pencils
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Inks
Sheldon Mayer (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Sheldon Mayer (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
And if I don't give you a treat...
Genre
humor; children
Characters
Sugar; Spike; Little Arthur

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Full-page gag cartoon.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Halloween Special!
    Sugar & Spike
  2. 1. Sugar and Spike
  3. 2. Supar & Spike Turn into a Pair of Halloween Cats!
    Sugar & Spike
  4. 3. ["Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman..."]
    Digest Forum
  5. 4. The Day the Trees Got Sloppy!
    Sugar & Spike
  6. 5. Sugar & Spike Meet a Real Halloween Goblin
    Sugar & Spike
  7. 6. Sugar & Spike Meet Space Sprout
    Sugar & Spike
  8. 7. Uncle Charley's Talking Pumpkin!
    Sugar & Spike
  9. 8. Sugar and Spike Get Up in the World
    Sugar & Spike
  10. 9. Space-Sprout Returns!
    Sugar & Spike
  11. 10. Sugar & Spike's Adventures with the 4000-Year-Old Baby!
    Sugar & Spike
  12. 11. The Shiny Round Roller
    Sugar & Spike
  13. 12. Sugar & Spike's Adventure with Real Halloween Magic!
    Sugar & Spike
  14. 13. [All-New Excitement]
    Super Friends
  15. 14. Coming in Best of DC #70
    Binky
  16. 15. Who's Who
    Sugar & Spike
  17. 16. How Well Do You Know Your Sugar & Spike Baby-Talk?
    Sugar & Spike
  18. 17. ["And if I don't give you a treat..."]
    Sugar & Spike
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