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Issue: Secret Origins #5
Publication Date: August 1986
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Issues: #5 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: 04/15/1986
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: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (co-editor); Robert Greenberger (co-editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #27.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): Mike Gustovich
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Crimson Avenger
Character(s): Crimson Avenger
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Pages: 1
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The Crimson Avenger

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas
Penciller(s): Gene Colan
Inker(s): Mike Gustovich
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Bob Greenberger (coordinating editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Crimson Avenger
Character(s): Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Claudia Barker; Mrs. Vangilder; Orson Welles; Bill Dock
Synopsis: In 1938, Newspaper publisher Lee Travis attends a Halloween party and foils robbers who dressed as aliens to take advantage of civilian panic during the broadcast of the Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Job Number: G-1883
Disclose Notes: Features the Crimson Avenger in his original mystery man style.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dan Adlerman
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Guest Meanwhile...
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Pages: 1
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Detective Comics #22

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim Chambers (original); Al Dellinges (redrawn art)
Inker(s): Jim Chambers (original); Al Dellinges (redrawn art)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Crimson Avenger
Character(s): Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2366
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from Steve Smith, Raul Wrona, John K. Austin, Neil Ahlquist, Neal Alhadeff and Paul Emrath.

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