Comic Title: Best of DC #42
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1983
On Sale Date: August 4, 1983 Newsstand Date August 4, 1983
Source: Amazing Heroes, #29

Newsstand Date August 2, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #212

Shipping Date July 12, 1983
Source: Comic Reader, #212

Copyright Date July 12, 1983
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1983
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date July 26, 1983
Source: Comics Journal, #83

Shipping Date July 12, 1983
Source: Amazing Heroes, #29

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 96
Editor: Nicola Cuti

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Legion of Super-Creatures"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #326 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #58; next appearance in Action Comics #326)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #58; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #151)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #58; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #86)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman #178; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #86)

Villain(s)

• Three survivors of an alien world and insect creatures of Giantia (all die in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Earth is plagued by several types of giant super-powered insects. Even Superman cannot match their power or find a way to defeat them. He does find an alien probe. When he enters the probe, he is taken to a giant world with a giant red sun. Superman loses his powers and is weakened further by the terrific gravity of this world where the insects originated. He meets three aliens from a dead world, who are using the insects the carry out the destruction of 100 worlds. Earth is the last one, so they detonate the giant world. Superman barely escapes in time. When he returns to Earth in the probe, he brings with him chunks of the destroyed planet. The radiation from the pieces is deadly to the insects which plague Earth. When enough of the material enters Earth's atmosphere, all the insects die off.