The Best of DC, #25 Newsstand

Published: June 1982

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Issue Contents:
The Man of Steel and His Favorite Kid-Pals
The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!

Story Featuring Superman

"A spectacular, eye-popping feat -- nothing more than a morning exercise for the greatest hero of them all..."

Storyline

Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.

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The Baby Who Walked Through Walls!

Story Featuring The Private Life of Clark Kent

"Presenting another exciting escapade of the man behind the legend -- another chapter in..."

Storyline

Clark is flummoxed when a child he's babysitting keeps disappearing.

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The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman!

Story Featuring Superman

"From the jungle-wilds of Africa, to the skyscrapers of New York, the name of Superman has spread its fame!"

Storyline

Superman restores the sight of a blind girl and reunites her family.

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World Beneath the North Pole!

Story Featuring Superman

"In a land very much like our own and yet so very different..."

Storyline

Superman, along with Steve Lombard's nephew Jamie, rescue Jamie's father from Miros, a land in Earth's hollow core.

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Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- and I Can Prove It!

Story Featuring Superman

"High above the suburbs of Metropolis, a familiar red-and-blue costumed figure zooms through the afternoon sky, his expression grim -- his eyes almost unseeing!"

Storyline

Superman exposes his secret identity to Jonathan Ross and defeats Whirlicane.

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The Story of Superman, Junior

Story Featuring Superman

"One day in Smallville, Superman's boyhood home, startled townsfolk see a flying youth perform super-feats again!"

Storyline

Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.

The Kid with the Million-Dollar Smile!

Story Featuring The Private Life of Clark Kent

"Dear Diary: Ordinarily, I don't mind going out on an assignment with a partner..."

Storyline

Clark and Lola Barnett deal with a bratty child TV commercial star.

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Superman's Command Performance

Story Featuring Superman

"There goes the giant meteor I sent hurtling on a collision course with Metropolis!"

Storyline

Superman is mentally controlled by children who don't realize what they are doing. Turns out an alien kid is participating in order to bring Superman to their clubhouse.

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Story Featuring Superman

"Meet Superman's kid-pals!"

Story Notes

Back cover blurb for the issue, presenting the featured characters in the stories in the issue.

Swamp Thing Is Back!

Story Featuring Swamp Thing

"Because you demanded it -- the triumphant return of comicdom's most-honored adventure series!"

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Story Notes

Promo advertisement for The Saga of the Swamp Thing (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale February 11, 1982. Inside back cover.

Best of DC -- Superman
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Story Notes

Includes indicia at bottom of page. Inside front cover.