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Issue: Secret Origins #49
Publication Date: June 1990
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Issues: #49 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: 04/19/1990
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.25 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mark Waid (co-editor); Michael Eury (co-editor)
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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): Karl Kesel (signed)
Inker(s): Karl Kesel (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Newsboy Legion; Bouncing Boy; The Silent Knight
Character(s): Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Big Words; Gabby; Scrapper; Tommy; Flip]; Guardian; Angry Charlie; Bouncing Boy; Shining Knight
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Pages: 1
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The Not-So-Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ty Templeton
Penciller(s): Ty Templeton
Inker(s): Ty Templeton
Colorist(s): Tom McCraw
Letterer(s): Ty Templeton
Editor(s): Michael Eury
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Bouncing Boy
Character(s): Bouncing Boy [Chuck Taine]; Cosmic Boy (cameo); Saturn Girl (cameo); Dr. F'toora (cameo)
Synopsis: A lab assistant drinks a super-plastic fluid by mistake, becomes super-bouncy, and gets rejected and then accepted as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
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Pages: 2
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Secrets of the Cadmus D. N. A. Project

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Karl Kesel
Penciller(s): Karl Kesel
Inker(s): Karl Kesel
Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko
Letterer(s): John Costanza
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Newsboy Legion
Character(s): Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Gabby; Flip; Tommy; Big Words; Scrapper]; Newsboy Legion (adults) [Gabby [John Gabrielli]; Tommy Thompkins; Big Words; Scrapper; Flip [Walter Johnson, Jr.]]; Guardian; Dabney Donovan; Dubblex (flashback, cameo); Angry Charlie; Dragorin (cameo)
Synopsis: The adult Newsboy Legion discuss the history of Project Cadmus. Their younger clones explore an underground world beneath the Project, where they meet DNAlien Angry Charlie and mad scientist Dabney Donovan.
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Pages: 17
Disclose Notes: This story shows the origins of the original Guardian and Newsboy Legion and their DNA descendants in the contemporary Superman books.
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The Silent Knight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jan Strnad
Penciller(s): John Koch
Inker(s): Gary Martin
Colorist(s): Tom McCraw
Letterer(s): John Workman
Editor(s): Mark Waid
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
Feature(s): The Silent Knight
Character(s): Silent Knight [Brian]; Lady Celia Penbrook; King Edwin Penbrook; Sir Oswald; Sir Grot; Slasher
Synopsis: When young, stuttering stable boy Brian is bullied, King Edwin orderes Sir Grot to train him in self-defense. King Edwin is slain in a joust by his evil brother Oswald, who assumes the throne. Brian finds King Edwin's enchanted armor, puts it on, saves Lady Celia from being killed, and allows Oswald to think that he is being haunted by the ghost of his brother.
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Pages: 19
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mark Waid; Michael Eury
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Secret Admirers
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Includes letters from Jim Kelly, Bob Dobiesz and Daniel Robert.

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