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Secret Origins, #32 Direct

Published: November 1988

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Secret Origins #32

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Justice League of America [Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Flash [Barry Allen]
  • Aquaman
  • Black Canary [Dinah Lance]
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]]
  • Justice League International [Guy Gardner
  • Rocket Red
  • Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]
  • Booster Gold
  • Fire]
Credits
Story Notes

The JLI appear on the cover, but do not appear in the issue.

The Secret Origin of the Justice League of America
Story 1 38 pages superhero
Storyline

Contenders for the leadership of Appellax stage their combat on Earth through "battle form" surrogates, the Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Black Canary, the Flash, and Green Lantern first encounter and defeat the first 5 individual battle forms separately, but have to work together to defeat the sixth one. As they are about to face the seventh one in Greenland, they arrive to see Superman finishing up defeating it and flying off. This experience gives them the idea to join together as the Justice League of America.

Characters
  • Justice League of America [Martian Manhunter [J'Onn J'Onzz, Manhunter from Mars]
  • Aquaman
  • Black Canary [Dinah Lance]
  • Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
  • Flash [Barry Allen]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo)
  • Green Arrow [Oliver Queen] (cameo)
  • Atom [Ray Palmer] (cameo)
  • Hawkman [Katar Hol] (cameo)
  • Elongated Man (cameo)
  • Phantom Stranger (cameo)
  • Red Tornado [John Smith] (cameo)
  • Hawkgirl [Shayera Thal] (cameo)
  • Zatanna (cameo)
  • Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond
  • Martin Stein] (cameo)
  • Steel [Hank Heywood] (cameo)
  • Vixen (cameo)
  • Gypsy (cameo)
  • Vibe (cameo)]
  • Superman
Credits
Story Notes

A retelling and updating of the origin story from Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #9, with Black Canary replacing Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is not pictured as a member of the JLA as she did not yet exist post-Crisis at the time the story occurred. Wonder Woman would later become a member of Justice League International (later Europe) and a later incarnation of the JLA.

Story 2 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Letters from K.S. Harvey, Roger D. Case, Eric Buscher, Craig Howrie, and T. Paul Lehman.