Best of DC 33

The Best of DC #33 Preboot » Pre-Crisis Reprint Cover by Keith Giffen and Mike DeCarlo Story title Various Previous story N/A Next story N/A Publication date November 4, 1982 Cover date February 1983 Creators Writer(s) n/a Penciller(s) n/a Inker(s) n/a Letterer(s) n/a Colourist(s) n/a Editor(s) Paul Levitz and Nicola Cuti Cover artist(s) Keith Giffen and Mike DeCarlo

Background

With this issue, the Best of DC digest reprint series focuses entirely on Legion stories. While it hypes them as "six power-packed premiere appearances," at least two of the stories (Dawnstar and Lightning Lad/Light Lass) are not first appearances. Its publication is a testament to the Legion's popularity at this time (immediately post-Great Darkness), as the Adventure Comics series was already reprinting classic Legion tales on a monthly basis in a similar format. With the demise of Adventure half a year later, the Best of DC series would continue the chronological reprints on an occasional basis, beginning with The Best of DC #44.

Reprinted material

Original publication source is noted for each.

• "The Lone Wolf Legionnaire!" – Adventure Comics #327 (published October 29, 1964)
• "The One-Shot Hero!" – Superboy v1 #195 (published March 20, 1973))
• "Dawnstar Rising" – Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #240 (published March 20, 1978)
• "Brotherly Hate!" – Superboy v1 #172 (published January 7, 1971)
• "The Trillion-Dollar Trophies" – Superboy v1 #221 (published August 23, 1976)
• "The Infinite Man Who Conquered Time the Legion!" – Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #233 (published August 22, 1977)
• "The Origins and Powers of the Legionnaires" - All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (published December 12, 1977)
• "Secrets of the Legion" - All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (published December 12, 1977)

The Story Behind the Stories

As with the Legion tales reprinted in Adventure Comics, Paul Levitz provides some commentary here about the original issues in which the stories appeared. Years later, these commentaries are the primary point of interest for the digest (other than the reprinted stories themselves), so the full text is provided below: