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Issue: Secret Origins Annual #2
Publication Date: September 1988
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues (8 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: 05/12/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.70 CAD
£0.80 GBP
$2.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mark Waid
Disclose Notes: On-sale date based on shipping date from Direct Currents #3 and copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: Saddle-stitched (#1-#2); Squarebound (#3)
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino; Mike Collins
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Todd Klein
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Wally West]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.
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The Unforgiving Minute

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): William Messner-Loebs; Rudyard Kipling (poem, page 24)
Penciller(s): Mike Collins
Inker(s): Frank McLaughlin; Donald Simpson
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): Albert De Guzman; typeset (page 24)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash
Character(s): Flash [Wally West]; Dr. Slade; Rudolph West (flashback); Mary West (flashback); Iris West Allen (flashback); Flash [Barry Allen] (flashback); Robin [Dick Grayson; Nightwing] (flashback, cameo); Wonder Girl [Donna Troy] (flashback, cameo); Aqualad (flashback,cameo); Speedy [Roy Harper] (flashback, cameo); Starfire (flashback, cameo); Cyborg (flashback, cameo); Raven (flashback, cameo); Jericho (flashback, cameo); Changeling (flashback, cameo); Separated Man (flashback, cameo); Punch (flashback, cameo)
Synopsis: Wally recounts his origin to a therapist.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 24
Job Number: G-3856
Disclose Notes: Recap of Flash/Kid Flash's origin. The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling is featured on the last page.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science and technology
Feature(s): Flash Facts
First Line: The faster an object travels...
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Pages: 0.67
Job Number: G-3790
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Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Robert Loren Fleming
Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino
Inker(s): Murphy Anderson
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Flash
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Iris West Allen; Top; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Pied Piper; Heat Wave; Captain Cold; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Weather Wizard; Trickster [James Jesse]; Abra Kadabra; Gorilla Grodd; Professor Zoom; Anti-Monitor; Prof. Ira West (cameo); Kid Flash [Wally West] (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Dexter Myles (cameo); Superman (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Henry Allen (cameo); Nora Allen (cameo)
Synopsis: Before a lightning bolt strikes a cabinet of chemicals in Barry Allen's lab, it offers him the chance to become the man he has always wanted to become or live a normal life. Barry chooses to become the fastest man alive and immediately saves the life of his girlfriend Iris and takes on the mantel of the Flash. As the Flash, he takes on a rogues gallery of villains, ending only when he runs faster than the speed of light to destroy the Anti-Monitor's cannon, travels back through time, and becomes the lightning bolt that first gave him his own powers.
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In Content Item: FlagSecret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes #[nn] published March 1990
as Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 31

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