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Issue: Secret Origins Annual #2

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Publication Date: September 1988

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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues (8 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/04/1988

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07098931691185

Price: $2.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Mark Waid

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover

Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-2); squarebound (#3)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Secret Origins Annual #2 [Direct]

Secret Origins Annual #2 [Canadian]

Secret Origins Annual #2 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino; Mike Collins

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash

Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Wally West]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

The Unforgiving Minute

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): William Messner-Loebs; Rudyard Kipling (poem, page 24)

Penciller(s): Mike Collins

Inker(s): Frank McLaughlin; Donald Simpson

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Albert De Guzman; typeset (page 24)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Flash

Character(s): Flash [Wally West]; Dr. Slade; Rudolph West (flashback); Mary West (flashback); Iris West Allen (flashback); Flash [Barry Allen] (flashback); Robin [Dick Grayson; Nightwing] (flashback, cameo); Wonder Girl [Donna Troy] (flashback, cameo); Aqualad (flashback,cameo); Speedy [Roy Harper] (flashback, cameo); Starfire (flashback, cameo); Cyborg (flashback, cameo); Raven (flashback, cameo); Jericho (flashback, cameo); Changeling (flashback, cameo); Separated Man (flashback, cameo); Punch (flashback, cameo)

Synopsis: Wally recounts his origin to a therapist.

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Pages: 24

Job Number: G-3856

Notes: Recap of Flash/Kid Flash's origin. The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling is featured on the last page.

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Cartoon on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: science and technology

Feature(s): Flash Facts

First Line: The faster an object travels...

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Pages: 0.67

Job Number: G-3790

Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Robert Loren Fleming

Penciller(s): Carmine Infantino

Inker(s): Murphy Anderson

Colorist(s): Tom Ziuko

Letterer(s): Gaspar Saladino

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Flash

Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Iris West Allen; Top; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Pied Piper; Heat Wave; Captain Cold; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Weather Wizard; Trickster [James Jesse]; Abra Kadabra; Gorilla Grodd; Professor Zoom; Anti-Monitor; Prof. Ira West (cameo); Kid Flash [Wally West] (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Dexter Myles (cameo); Superman (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Henry Allen (cameo); Nora Allen (cameo)

Synopsis: Before a lightning bolt strikes a cabinet of chemicals in Barry Allen's lab, it offers him the chance to become the man he has always wanted to become or live a normal life. Barry chooses to become the fastest man alive and immediately saves the life of his girlfriend Iris and takes on the mantel of the Flash. As the Flash, he takes on a rogues gallery of villains, ending only when he runs faster than the speed of light to destroy the Anti-Monitor's cannon, travels back through time, and becomes the lightning bolt that first gave him his own powers.

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Pages: 31