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Issue: Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes #[nn]
Publication Date: August 1976
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWarner Books
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Indicia Publisher: Warner Books
On Sale Date: 08/1976
Volume:
Pages: 244
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $6.95 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 34 (18 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: The indicia states: "First Printing: August 1976. Copyright (c) 1976 by National Periodical Publications, Inc."

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-43467

There are no ISBN numbers printed on this book. This book has been assigned an ISBN 10 of 0-446-87092-7 and an ISBN 13 of 978-0-446-87092-4.

There is also a hardcover edition by Harmony Books (Crown Publishers).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
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Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Secret Origins
Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Captain Marvel; Wonder Woman; Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Superman; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Plastic Man; Batman; Flash [Barry Allen]; Green Arrow
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Pages: 1
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Title Pages

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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Initial pages, including blank pages, title pages, dedication (to Sheldon Mayer), and acknowledgments.
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Contents

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Introduction

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Superman...He's the Key, the Granddaddy of them All

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Pages: 4
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One Page Origin of Superman

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Character(s): Superman (intro; brief origin)
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The Origin of Superman!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Perry White; Krypton
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Pages: 15
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Batman...He Was Unable Not to Fight Criminals

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The Legend of the Batman--Who He Is and How He Came to Be!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman (origin); Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne
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The Origin of the Batman!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin retold in detail); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Thomas Wayne (flashback, death); Martha Wayne (flashback, death); Joe Chill (villain, name revealed in this story, Thomas and Martha Wayne's murderer, death); Feets Borgam (killer, death); Monty Julep (illegal gambler, death)
Synopsis: While investigating criminal activity at a transport company, Batman recognizes the owner, Joe Chill, as the man who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne years before. Batman tries to find evidence of Chill's illegal operations, but when he fails, he decides to reveal his identity to Chill and tells him that will be watching him and will catch him eventually. In a panic, Chill flees to his gang, but when they find out Chill is responsible for Batman's existence they shoot him, and only after do they realize that they should have asked Chill for Batman's real name.
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Wonder Woman...The Female Sex Is Assuming Day by Day a More Dominant Role in World Affairs

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The Origin of Wonder Woman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman (origin); Ares [Mars]; Aphrodite; Hercules (intro); Hippolyte; Amazons; Steve Trevor; Colonel Darnell (cameo); Mala
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War of the Wonder Women!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wonder Woman (origin); Nubia (origin); Mars; Hippolyta
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Pages: 23
Job Number: R-203
Disclose Notes: Writer miscredited as "Gary" Bates as in the original.
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The Flash...You Can Do Almost Anything With Him...

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Disclose Notes: Background and history of both Flashes (Jay Garrick and Barry Allen).
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Origin of the Flash

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Jay Garrick] (intro, origin); Joan Williams (intro); Major Williams; Sieur Satan; Serge Orloff; Duriel; the Faultless Four; Professor Hughes
First Line: But before he became known and feared as "the fastest thing on Earth", Jay Garrick was an unknown student at Midwestern University...
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Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen] (intro; origin); Flash [Jay Garrick] (on a comic book cover); Iris West (intro); The Turtle Man (villain; later The Turtle)
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Green Lantern...No Evil Shall Escape My Sight

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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Background and history of both Green Lanterns (Alan Scott and Hal Jordan).
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The Origin of Green Lantern

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (intro, origin); Jimmy (death); Chang the Lamp Maker (flashback); Billings (flashback); Dekker (villain, death)
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Pages: 8
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SOS - Green Lantern!

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Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (intro, origin); Green Lantern [Abin Sur] (intro, death)
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Pages: 6
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Hawkman...The Weirdness Seems to Be Part of Hawkman's Appeal

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The Origin of Hawkman

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hawkman [Carter Hall] (intro, origin); Shiera Sanders (intro, later Hawkgirl); Hath-Set (intro); Kolar; Doctor Hastor
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: The title here was given in Golden Age Hawkman Archives vol. 1 where this story was also reprinted. First line is "In the weapon-lined library of Carter Hall, wealthy collector of weapons and research scientist -".
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Creature of a Thousand Shapes!

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Character(s): Hawkman [Katar Hol] (intro, origin); Hawkgirl [Shayera Thal] (intro, origin); Byth (intro, villain); Commissioner Emmett (intro); Mavis Trent (intro)
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Pages: 24.67
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Green Arrow...A Streamlined Robin Hood

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The Birth of the Battling Bowmen

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow (origin); Speedy (origin); Mr. Harper [Roy's father] (flashback, death); Quoag [Mr. Harper's Indian servant] (death); Dippy Parker; Curator Morgan; Lefty; Louie
Synopsis: Archaeologist Oliver Queen is visiting Lost Mesa where he meets Roy Harper, a young boy marooned on Lost Mesa and raised by Quoag, his father's Indian servant. There they are beset upon by thugs searching for a gold mine. After Quoag dies from gun shots, only Oliver and Roy's skills with archery and knowledge of Indian lore save them.
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The Green Arrow's First Case

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow (origin); Speedy; trick arrows (origin)
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The Atom...Not One Person out of Ten Knew What an Atom Was

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Introducing the Mighty Atom

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Atom [Al Pratt] (intro, origin); Mary James (intro); Joe Morgan (intro)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Inker credit verified by Craig Delich & Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005).
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Birth of the Atom!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Atom [Ray Palmer] (intro, origin); Jean Loring (intro)
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Pages: 9.67
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Shazam!...In One Thing a Sense of Fun and the Whole Sense of Adventure

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Introducing Captain Marvel

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson] (intro, origin), Shazam (intro), Dr. Thaddeus Bodog Sivana (intro), Sterling Morris (intro); radio station WHIZ (intro); Seven Deadly Enemies of Man (intro), Ebenezer Batson (intro, flashback); Phantom Companion
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Plastic Man...One of the Wildest Imaginations...

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The Origin of Plastic Man

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Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian] (intro, origin); Rest-Haven monk; Skizzle Shanks
Synopsis: Gangster Eel O'Brian's dip in a vat of acid turns him into the superhero Plastic Man and against the mobsters he used to work with.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: N-396
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The Author

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Genres: biography
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Back Cover

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Disclose Notes: The logo and a one paragraph description of each of the ten heroes in this collection.

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