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DC Comics Presents #85

DC · Series began 1978 · September 1985

Dates

Cover date
September 1985
On sale
May 14, 1985
Pages
36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #85 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct edition75¢ cover

    Direct

    No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

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  • Newsstand edition75¢ cover

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 0709893121609 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page
  • Canadian price edition0.95 CAD cover

    Canadian

    Printed cover price 0.95 CAD.

    Barcode 0709893121609 · shared with another edition

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Rick Veitch, José Luis García-Lópezinks: Rick Veitch, Al Williamsonscript: Alan Moore, Laurie Rozakis, Dick Giordanocolors: Tatjana Woodletters: John Costanza

Stories

  • The Jungle Line · 23 pages

    Clark comes in contact with a fungus from Krypton that will eventually kill him. Driving south due to his powers intermittently failing, he crashes in a swamp and stumbles upon the one creature that might help him-- Swamp Thing.

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanClark KentSupermanPrincess DianaWonder WomanBarry AllenThe FlashJimmy OlsenLana LangAlec HollandSwamp Thing

Reprinted in

The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (1989), The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (1990), Across the Universe: The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore (2003), DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore (2006), Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Deluxe Edition (2009), Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (2010), DC Universe by Alan Moore (2012), DC Universe by Alan Moore (2013), Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Deluxe Edition (2020 Edition) (2020), DC Heroes & Villains Collection (2021)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); each links to its article.