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Issue: Secret Origins #42

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Publication Date: July 1989

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Issues: #42 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

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Pages: 52

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UPC/EAN: 07098931766607

Price: $1.85 CAD
$1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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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

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2 Secret Origins #42 [Direct]

Secret Origins #42 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super Heroes [Ultra Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Phantom Girl]; Grim Ghost

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Pages: 1

Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Boys

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Legion of Super Heroes [Phantom Girl; Ultra Boy; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Bouncing Boy; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Triplicate Girl; Karate Kid]; Gmya Wazzo; Winema Wazzo; Byzjn Wazzo; Qyk; Kynar

Synopsis: When Ultra Boy is accused of betraying the Legion, Phantom Girl is the only one who believes in him.

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Pages: 20

Notes: This story takes place at the time Ultra Boy first joined the Legion of Super Heroes, specifically the story in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316.

The Secret Origin of Grim Ghost

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: occult, superhero

Character(s): Keith Everet; Deborah Wallace; Charles Collins

Synopsis: When Keith Everet was killed by robbers in 1700 he returned as a ghost and was reunited with his lady love in Ireland in 1941.

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Pages: 19

Job Number: G-3578

Notes: Adapted from Sensation #1, the name has been altered from the Gay Ghost to the Grim Ghost to suit the times.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Job Number: L-3775

Notes: Includes letters from Phil Ziegler and Scott Tipton.