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Issue: Secret Origins #4
Publication Date: July 1986
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Issues: #4 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/18/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas; Robert Greenberger
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #26.
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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
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How It Began!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Al Milgrom (signed)
Inker(s): Al Milgrom (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Firestorm
Character(s): Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Prof. Martin Stein]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Secret Origin of Firestorm, the Nuclear Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gerry Conway
Penciller(s): George Tuska
Inker(s): Pablo Marcos
Colorist(s): Nansi Hoolahan
Letterer(s): John Costanza; Carrie Spiegle
Editor(s): Janice Race
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Firestorm
Character(s): Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Prof. Martin Stein]; Wendy Olsen; Crystal Frost (flashback); Clarissa Stein (flashback); Danton Black (flashback); Brad Baxter (flashback); Eddie Earhart (flashback, cameo)
Synopsis: Prof. Martin Stein looks back on his life: his college life, his marriage and divorce, and the nuclear accident that merged himself with student Ronnie Raymond to become Firestorm.
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Pages: 22
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile...
Synopsis: Article about various new DC projects including the re-vamping of Superman, Legends, Angel Love and Swamp Thing. Also mentions Watchmen.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Also includes DC Check List of comics on sale the week of April 10th, 1986.
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Echoes of Creation

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gerry Conway
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
Synopsis: Article about the creation of Firestorm.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2359
Disclose Notes: Also includes a preview of the cover of the next issue.

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