Comic Title: Best of DC #7
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Sep/Oct 1980
On Sale Date: June 12, 1980 Newsstand Date June 12, 1980
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #43

Copyright Date June 12, 1980
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1980

Newsstand Date June 11, 1980
Source: Comic Reader, #180

Newsstand Date June 10, 1980
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 80 #19
Listed as on sale the week of June 10th

Shipping Date May 20, 1980
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #43

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Julius Schwartz

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Dark Strangler of the Seas"
Pages: 21

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Superboy #171 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #170; next appearance in Superboy #172)

Guest Star(s)

• Aquaboy (Aquaman as a teenager; last appearance in Aquaman #20; next appearance in Adventure Comics #229)

Villain(s)

• The Trans-East Oil Company (no further appearances)
• Selim (an arab; no further appearances)
• The crew of an oil tanker (no further appearances)
• Marita (Aquaboy's girl friend; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mac and Jim (fishermen; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Superman (in epilogue)

Comments:
This story contains a one-page epilogue which explains that Superboy's adventures have been moved forward in time to the 1950s in order to keep pace with the adult adventures of Superman who remains perpetually 29 years old.

Synopsis:
Superboy helps two fishermen drag an oil covered boy out of the ocean. Superboy removes the oil and is introduced to Aquaboy. The water breathing teenager explains that he encountered an oil tanker leaking oil into the ocean which was killing marine life. When he tried to intervene, the tanker crew covered him in oil and left him for dead.

Superboy and Aquaboy team up. They approach the head of the oil company demanding that they stop the pollution. When the company refuses, the two teens disrupt the shipment of oil. The company strikes back. They use Aquaboy's girl friend Marita as bait to lure Aquaboy into a trap. Superboy saves his friend and put an end to the evil company. However, the battle against pollution continues to be a struggle around the globe.