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Issue: Secret Origins #1
Publication Date: April 1986
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Issues: #1 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/18/1985
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.35 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jerry Ordway (signed); Wayne Boring (image in crystal ball, signed)
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; Alex Jay (logo design)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]; Spectre; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Huntress [Helena Wayne]
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Eighties #[nn] published June 2006
as Superman and Beyond [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Image in crystal ball is reprinted from page 19 of main story. Logo design credit from Todd Klein.
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The Secret Origin of the Golden-Age Superman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Wayne Boring
Inker(s): Jerry Ordway
Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo
Letterer(s): David Cody Weiss
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]; Jor-L; Lara Jor-L; John Kent; Mary Kent; George Taylor; Lois Lane; Butch Mason
Synopsis: 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
Pages: 22
Job Number: G-1788
Disclose Notes: Retelling of the stories in Action Comics #1 and Superman #1.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Superman

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Joe Shuster (layout); Paul Cassidy (preliminary sketches); John Sikela (Superman's heads only)
Inker(s): Eddie Dobrotka; John Sikela (Superman's heads only); Lee Nowak (line work inside figures)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Previously unpublished artwork. Wayne Boring provided information as to who did what.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Roy Thomas
Penciller(s): Wayne Boring
Inker(s): Wayne Boring
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
Synopsis: 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
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2263
Disclose Notes: Last Wayne Boring artwork before his passing.

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