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Issue: Secret Origins #49

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Publication Date: June 1990

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Issues: #49 of 50 Issues (130 Printings)

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Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/19/1990

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.25 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 5 (3 stories, 1 cover)

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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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Secret Origins #49 [Direct]

Secret Origins #49 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Bouncing Boy

Character(s): Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Big Words; Gabby; Scrapper; Tommy; Flip]; Guardian; Angry Charlie; Bouncing Boy; Shining Knight

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Pages: 1

The Not-So-Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Bouncing Boy

Character(s): Bouncing Boy [Chuck Taine]; Cosmic Boy (cameo); Saturn Girl (cameo); Dr. F'toora (cameo)

Synopsis: A lab assistant drinks a super-plastic fluid by mistake, becomes super-bouncy, and gets rejected and then accepted as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Pages: 2

Notes: All credits from letters page in this issue.

Secrets of the Cadmus D. N. A. Project

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Gabby; Flip; Tommy; Big Words; Scrapper]; Newsboy Legion (adults) [Gabby [John Gabrielli]; Tommy Thompkins; Big Words; Scrapper; Flip [Walter Johnson, Jr.]]; Guardian; Dabney Donovan; Dubblex (flashback, cameo); Angry Charlie; Dragorin (cameo)

Synopsis: The adult Newsboy Legion discuss the history of Project Cadmus. Their younger clones explore an underground world beneath the Project, where they meet DNAlien Angry Charlie and mad scientist Dabney Donovan.

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Pages: 17

Notes: This story shows the origins of the original Guardian and Newsboy Legion and their DNA descendants in the contemporary Superman books.

The Silent Knight

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, historical

Character(s): Silent Knight [Brian]; Lady Celia Penbrook; King Edwin Penbrook; Sir Oswald; Sir Grot; Slasher

Synopsis: When young, stuttering stable boy Brian is bullied, King Edwin orderes Sir Grot to train him in self-defense. King Edwin is slain in a joust by his evil brother Oswald, who assumes the throne. Brian finds King Edwin's enchanted armor, puts it on, saves Lady Celia from being killed, and allows Oswald to think that he is being haunted by the ghost of his brother.

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Pages: 19

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 2

Notes: Includes letters from Jim Kelly, Bob Dobiesz and Daniel Robert.