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Issue: Secret Origins #12

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Publication Date: March 1987

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Issues: #12 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct Sales

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 11/18/1986

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Roy Thomas; Robert Greenberger

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #34.

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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

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Secret Origins #12 [Direct Sales]

Secret Origins #12 [Canadian]

Secret Origins #12 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Paris Cullins (signed) [as 'Ace' Cullins]

Inker(s): Karl Kesel (signed) [as 'Prof' Kesel]

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Challengers of the Unknown; Fury

Character(s): Fury [Helena Kosmatos]; Challengers of the Unknown [Rocky Davis; June Robbins; Red Ryan; Ace Morgan; Prof Haley]

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Pages: 1

The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Fury

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas

Penciller(s): Tom Grindberg

Inker(s): Tony DeZuñiga

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss

Editor(s): Bob Greenberger (coordinating editor)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Fury

Character(s): Fury [Lyta Trevor]; Fury [Helena Kosmatos] (first appearance, flashback); Michael Kosmatos; Furies [Tisiphone; Alecto; Megaera]; Johnny Chambers (flashback)

Synopsis: At the underground altar of Erebus in Greece, Lyta Trevor encounters the three Furies who tell her about her about her unknown mother, Helena Kosmatos, who was granted powers of vengeance.

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Pages: 16

Job Number: G-2559

Notes: This is continued from Infinity Inc #35. This story retroactively changes Lyta Trevor's mother from the Golden-Age Wonder Woman to the Golden-Age Fury.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Bob Greenberger

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Secret Admirers

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Pages: 2

Job Number: L-2605

Notes: Includes letters from Jonathan Gilbert, T.M. Maple, Paul Stevens, T.E. Pouncy.

Challengers of the Unknown

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Mark Evanier

Penciller(s): Chuck Patton

Inker(s): Bob Oksner

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Carrie Spiegle

Editor(s): Robert Greenberger

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): Challengers of the Unknown

Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; June Robbins; Red Ryan]; Morelian

Synopsis: As the Challengers wait in the Green Room of TV's "Real Incredible People", they kill time by retelling their origin to June. They recount stories of how they cheated death pre-Challengers.

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Pages: 22

Job Number: G-2595

Notes: A whimsical recap of early adventures and a postscript to the origin story in Showcase #6.