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Issue: Secret Origins #1
Publication Date: April 1986
 
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Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/10/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893176604
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Roy Thomas (editor); Janice Race (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #23.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Jerry Ordway (signed); Wayne Boring (image in crystal ball, signed)
Jerry Ordway (signed)
?
?; Alex Jay (logo design)
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman
Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]; Spectre; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Huntress [Helena Wayne]
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Miscellaneous
1
Image in crystal ball is reprinted from page 19 of main story. Logo design credit from Todd Klein.
The Secret Origin of the Golden-Age Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
Wayne Boring
Jerry Ordway
Gene D'Angelo
David Cody Weiss
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman
Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]; Jor-L; Lara Jor-L; John Kent; Mary Kent; George Taylor; Lois Lane; Butch Mason
Rocketed to Earth-Two from the exploding planet Krypton, Kal-L grows up to become Superman. He makes his public debut in 1938, trying to prevent the execution of an innocent woman.
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Miscellaneous
22
G-1788
Retelling of the stories in Action Comics #1 and Superman #1.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Dick Giordano
typeset
Subject Matter
Meanwhile...
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Miscellaneous
1
Superman

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
Joe Shuster (layout); Paul Cassidy (preliminary sketches); John Sikela (Superman's heads only)
Eddie Dobrotka; John Sikela (Superman's heads only); Lee Nowak (line work inside figures)
?
?; typeset
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman
Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]
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Miscellaneous
1
Previously unpublished artwork. Wayne Boring provided information as to who did what.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Roy Thomas
Wayne Boring
Wayne Boring
?
typeset
Subject Matter
The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
Letters page explains why series was created post-Crisis. Roy Thomas goes into details how odd numbered issues would cover Golden Age origins, while the even numbered ones would follow the more silver/modern age origins. Gives brief history behind Golden Age Superman, and the writers and artists associated with him, including this issue's artist Wayne Boring.
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Miscellaneous
2
L-2263
Last Wayne Boring artwork before his passing.

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