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Issue: Secret Origins #18
Publication Date: September 1987
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Issues: #18 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: 05/19/1987
Volume:
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 (creative editor); Greg Weisman (assistant editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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): Bill Sienkiewicz (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Sienkiewicz (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern; The Creeper
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Creeper [Jack Ryder]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Before and After Science

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Andy Helfer (plot and words); Keith Giffen (plot)
Penciller(s): Keith Giffen
Inker(s): Rick Bryant
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Editor(s): Greg Weisman
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Creeper
Character(s): Creeper [Jack Ryder]; Moe; Manny; Emil Yatz
Synopsis: Jack Ryder is captured by a mob boss, drugged, shot and left for dead. He is brought back to life by Professor Yatz but the process has created the Creeper.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: G-2981
Disclose Notes: This origin, although based on the original Showcase tale, stresses that the Creeper is not quite sane.
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The Tale of the Green Lantern

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): George Freeman
Inker(s): George Freeman
Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin
Letterer(s): Jean Simek
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Green Lantern
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Guardians of the Universe; Star-Heart; Chang the Lampmaker; Joe; Mrs. Billings; Billings; Jimmy Henton; Albert Dekker; Irene Miller; Bart Murdock; Danny Miller; Judge Homer Wake
Synopsis: A piece of the Star-Heart travels to ancient Earth where it is shaped into a lantern that eventually falls into the hands of Alan Scott, who becomes the first Green Lantern.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-2622
Disclose Notes: This is based on the stories in the early All-American Comics, but does include the continuity of the Guardians, and their creation of the Starheart as shown in Green Lantern circa #115.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Secret Admirers
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2809
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from Anthony R. Cardno, Susanna Doyle, Charles D. Brown, Ken Ruby III and George A. Williams.

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