DC Comics Bonus Books were 16-page

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stories inserted into issues of existing

DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their f ...

series to showcase new writers and artists. Running from April 1988 to February 1989, they consisted of a front cover, 14 pages of story, and a back cover with a brief biography of the story's creators. The addition of the insert did not entail an increase in the price of the comic book. The Bonus Books featured early work by such comics creators as Mark Askwith,

Jim Balent Jim Balent () is an American comics artist, writer, and publisher from Pennsylvania. He is best known for his long run on '' Catwoman'' between 1993 and 1999. Balent has also drawn ''Batman'' and ''Lobo'' for DC Comics, as well as some of the i ...

Randy DuBurke Randy DuBurke (born 1962) is an American artist best known as the author and illustrator of the Steptoe Award winning book ''The Moon Ring'' (2003) and as the illustrator of '' Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty'' (2010). He previously w ...

, Dean Haspiel, Rob Liefeld, Gordon Purcell, and Denis Rodier.

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