The series ran for 71 issues and while it primarily featured reprints of older comic books, it occasionally published new stories or inventory material.
The "Year's Best Comics Stories" issues included extra pages and a higher price point.
[4] Writer Michael Fleisher and artist Romeo Tanghal crafted a new story which revealed the origin of the Penguin in The Best of DC #10 (March 1981).
[7] Several Sugar and Spike stories by writer-artist Sheldon Mayer which were prepared for overseas markets were published in various issues of The Best of DC[8][9] The Super Jrs.
characters made their only comic book appearance in #58 (March 1985) in a story written by Tom DeFalco and drawn by Vince Squeglia[10] The Best of DC was cancelled as of issue #71 (April 1986).