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Publisher: DC

Title: Secret Origins
Issue: 1
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: April 1986
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Contributors: Editor: Roy Thomas (editor); Janice Race (associate editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

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Secret Origins #1 (1986)
Owner: Sandflea

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Superman
Pages:1
Pencils:Jerry Ordway (signed); Wayne Boring (image in crystal ball, signed)
Inks:Jerry Ordway (signed)
Letters:?; Alex Jay (logo design)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]; Spectre; Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Huntress [Helena Wayne]


Story Title: The Secret Origin of the Golden-Age Superman - comic story
Features:Superman
Pages:22
Pencils:Wayne Boring
Inks:Jerry Ordway
Colors:Gene D'Angelo
Letters:David Cody Weiss
Genre:superhero
Characters: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.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Meanwhile...
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Superman - illustration
Features:Superman
Pages:1
Pencils:Joe Shuster (layout); Paul Cassidy (preliminary sketches); John Sikela (Superman's heads only)
Inks:Eddie Dobrotka; John Sikela (Superman's heads only); Lee Nowak (line work inside figures)
Letters:?; typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Superman [Kal-L; Clark Kent]


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
Pages:2
Pencils:Wayne Boring
Inks:Wayne Boring
Letters:typeset
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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