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Issue: Secret Origins #41
Publication Date: June 1989
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Issues: #41 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)
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Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/20/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.85 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mark Waid
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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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The Rogues Gallery of the Flash

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Flash; Weather Wizard; Heat Wave; Trickster; Pied Piper; Captain Cold; Captain Boomerang
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover is based on the classic Nov. 1967 cover from The Flash (DC, 1959 Series) #174 by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson.
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Paul Gambi; Gorilla Grodd (in human form)
Synopsis: A man with no memories enters the shop of Paul Gambi, a Central City tailor to the super-villains, who decides to help the man try to remember by recounting the origins of some of the Flash's Rogues.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4595
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 2: The Trickster

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Paul Gambi; Gorilla Grodd (in human form); Trickster [James Jesse]; Booster Gold
Synopsis: Paul Gambi tells the origin of circus performer turned villain, the Trickster.
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Pages: 5
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 3: The Pied Piper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Paul Gambi; Gorilla Grodd (in human form); Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]; Trickster
Synopsis: Paul Gambi tells the origin of the spoiled rich Pied Piper. Trickster calls on the Piper for help.
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 4: Captain Cold and Heat Wave

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): Kevin Branch
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Paul Gambi; Gorilla Grodd (in human form); Captain Cold [Len Snart]; Heat Wave [Mick Rory]; Trickster; Pied Piper
Synopsis: Paul Gambi tells the origins of petty thief Captain Cold and pyromaniac Heat Wave. After Heat Wave performs a heroic act, he and Captain Cold join up with Trickster and Piper.
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Pages: 7
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 5: Captain Boomerang and the Weather Wizard

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Paul Gambi; Gorilla Grodd (in human form); Weather Wizard [Mark Mardon] (flashback)
Synopsis: Paul Gambi tells the origins of criminal inventor Captain Boomerang and two-bit burglar Weather Wizard. Upon hearing of the super-hero, Flash, the mysterious stranger finally remembers who he is.
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A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 6: Rally Round the Rogues!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Flash's Rogues' Gallery
Character(s): Trickster; Captain Boomerang; Captain Cold; Heat Wave; Weather Wizard; Pied Piper; Gorilla Grodd; Paul Gambi; Solovar
Synopsis: The Rogues, having received a telepathic message from Solovar, arrive at Paul Gambi's shop to stop Gorilla Grodd.
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Pages: 9

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