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Issue: Secret Origins #12
Publication Date: March 1987
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Issues: #12 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: 11/18/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Roy Thomas; Robert Greenberger
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #34.
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fury; Challengers of the Unknown
Character(s): Fury [Helena Kosmatos]; Challengers of the Unknown [Rocky Davis; June Robbins; Red Ryan; Ace Morgan; Prof Haley]
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Pages: 1
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The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Fury
Character(s): Fury [Lyta Trevor]; Fury [Helena Kosmatos] (first appearance, flashback); Michael Kosmatos; Furies [Tisiphone; Alecto; Megaera]; Johnny Chambers (flashback)
Synopsis: At the underground altar of Erebus in Greece, Lyta Trevor encounters the three Furies who tell her about her about her unknown mother, Helena Kosmatos, who was granted powers of vengeance.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: G-2559
Disclose Notes: This is continued from Infinity Inc #35. This story retroactively changes Lyta Trevor's mother from the Golden-Age Wonder Woman to the Golden-Age Fury.

This is the only time the character Fury [Helena Kosmatos] gets a featured story.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2605
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jonathan Gilbert, T.M. Maple, Paul Stevens, and T.E. Pouncy.
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Challengers of the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Prof Haley; June Robbins; Red Ryan]; Morelian
Synopsis: As the Challengers wait in the Green Room of TV's "Real Incredible People", they kill time by retelling their origin to June. They recount stories of how they cheated death pre-Challengers.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-2595
Disclose Notes: A whimsical recap of early adventures and a postscript to the origin story in Showcase #6.

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