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Issue: Secret Origins #6

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Publication Date: September 1986

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Issues: #6 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/12/1986

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893176609

Price: $1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Roy Thomas (co-editor); Robert Greenberger (co-editor)

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #28.

Begin multiple origins per issue.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched (#50 squarebound)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants3

2 Secret Origins #6 [Direct]

Secret Origins #6 [Canadian]

Secret Origins #6 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): José Luis García-López (signed)

Inker(s): José Luis García-López (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Halo; Batman

Character(s): Halo; Batman

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Secret Origin of the Golden Age Batman

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas

Penciller(s): Marshall Rogers

Inker(s): Terry Austin

Colorist(s): Marshall Rogers

Letterer(s): Carrie Spiegle

Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Bob Greenberger (coordinating editor)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne] (Earth-2); Julie Madison (Earth-2); Commissioner James Gordon (Earth-2)

Synopsis: After witnessing the murder of his parents as a child, Bruce Wayne grows up to fight crime as Batman, and it follows his origins, as well as his one-time love affair with Julie Madison.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 23

Job Number: G-1789

Fallen Angel

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Mike W. Barr

Penciller(s): Dick Giordano

Inker(s): Dick Giordano

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): Duncan Andrews

Editor(s): Mike W. Barr (editor); Robert Greenberger (coordinating editor)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Halo

Character(s): Outsiders [Halo; Looker; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback); Black Lightning (flashback, cameo); Geo-Force (flashback, cameo); Katana (flashback, cameo); Metamorpho (flashback, cameo)]; Violet Harper (flashback); Tobias Whale (flashback); Syonide (flashback)

Synopsis: Halo tells Looker her origin, that she is actually a being of light called an Aurakle, that took over the body of criminal Violet Harper after she was killed by Syonide. Looker then gives Halo a new costume created by Katana as a gift.

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Pages: 22

Job Number: G-2632

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Greenberger

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Secret Origin of Secret Origins

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Pages: 2

Job Number: L-2404

Notes: Letters from Gary L. McCullough, Frank Simonetti, Frank Balkin, Dennis Heaton and Tim Moss.

Brief information about the Golden Age Batman featured in this issue by Roy Thomas. Also noted that starting with this issue there would be two stories each issue: one Golden Age origin and one Silver or Modern Age origin.