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Issue: Secret Origins #39

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Publication Date: April 1989

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Issues: #39 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/23/1989

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $1.85 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): Mark Waid; Dick Giordano (executive editor)

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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

Format Notes:

Variants2

Secret Origins #39 [Direct]

Secret Origins #39 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In2

1 Content Item
- The Myth of the Creation [Story on Interior Page(s)]0

reprinted as/ in another Issue.

1 Content Item
- The Myth of the Creation [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Adult Image

Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Mike W. Kaluta (signed)

Inker(s): Mike W. Kaluta (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Animal Man; Man-Bat

Character(s): Animal Man; Man-Bat

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Secret Origin of Man-Bat

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Jan Strnad

Penciller(s): Kevin Nowlan

Inker(s): Kevin Nowlan

Colorist(s): Kevin Nowlan

Letterer(s): Kevin Nowlan

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Man-Bat

Character(s): Man-Bat [Kirk Langstrom]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Francine Langstrom; Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (flashback; cameo); Martha Wayne (flashback; cameo)

Synopsis: Kirk Langstrom experiments on himself and turns into Man-Bat.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 19

Notes: A significantly amplified version of the origin from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #400.

The Myth of the Creation

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Grant Morrison

Penciller(s): Tom Grummett

Inker(s): Doug Hazlewood

Colorist(s): Helen Vesik

Letterer(s): Janice Chiang

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Animal Man

Character(s): Animal Man [Buddy Baker]; Ellen Baker; Cliff Baker; Maxine Baker

Synopsis: As Buddy tries to regain his powers, aliens review his history.

Reprinting

In Issue:

Animal Man de Grant Morrison #[nn] published March 2011

In Content Item: Flag

Animal Man: Origin of the Species #[nn] published September 2002
as The Myth of the Creation [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 19

Job Number: G-4657

Notes: Leads into Animal Man (DC, 1987 series) #10. This begins to show the dichotomy between the post- and pre-Crisis Animal Man as the fabric of reality begins to unravel.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Mark Waid

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Secret Admirers

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: L-3565

Notes: Includes letters from Jacob Gilber, Charles J. Sperling and Norma McQuaid.