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Issue: Secret Origins #13
Publication Date: April 1987
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Issues: #13 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/16/1986
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: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas; Bob Greenberger
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #35.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Pat Broderick (signed)
Inker(s): Pat Broderick (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightwing; Johnny Thunder; The Whip
Character(s): Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; the Whip
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Secret Origin of Nightwing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dan Mishkin
Penciller(s): Erik Larsen
Inker(s): Mike DeCarlo
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): John Costanza; Todd Klein (p. 1, uncredited)
Editor(s): Robert Greenberger
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Nightwing
Character(s): Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; John Grayson; Mary Grayson; Haly; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Tony Zucco; Tweedledee (cameo); Tweedledum (cameo); Teen Titans [Jericho [Joseph Wilson]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Aqualad [Garth]; Raven [Rachel Roth]; Changeling [Garfield Logan]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Starfire [Koriand'r]]; Aquaman (cameo); Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo); Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Trigon (cameo); Brother Blood (cameo); Robin [Jason Todd] (cameo); Karras (cameo)
Synopsis: Dick Grayson spends his twentieth birthday on Tamaran and tells his origin to Jericho.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: G-2957
Disclose Notes: Takes place during The New Teen Titans #16-19 or Tales of the Teen Titans #74-77.

Klein credit from the artist.
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The Secret Origin of the Whip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas
Penciller(s): Mike Gustovich
Inker(s): Mike Gustovich
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): Agustin Mas
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Bob Greenberger (coordinating editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Feature(s): The Whip
Character(s): Whip [Rodrigo Gaynor]; Whip [Don Fernando Suarez]; Carlos Fuentes; Marissa Dillon; Diablo (horse); Sheriff Todd
Synopsis: Rodrigo Gaynor stop off in the town of Seguro where he learns of ranchers plans to lynch a Mexican in the jail. He dons the uniform of The Whip, who had protected the poor in the previous century.
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Pages: 9
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The Secret Origin of Johnny Thunder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Mike Clark
Inker(s): Dave Hunt
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): Agustin Mas
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (creative editor); Bob Greenberger (coordinating editor)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Johhny Thunder
Character(s): Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder; Captain Cosher; Mr. Gimple
Synopsis: Johnny Thunder is kidnapped as a baby and taken to Bahdnisia and given the power to control the Thunderbolt, but he escapes and returns to New York before he knows the magic word to activate his powers.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Liberally adapted from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1.
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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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2639
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from Chris Khalaf, Charles D. Brown, Daniel Smith and G.A. Olinger.

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