Secret Origins, #49 Direct
Published: June 1990
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Issue Contents:
Featuring Bouncing Boy
Characters
- Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Big Words
- Gabby
- Scrapper
- Tommy
- Flip]
- Guardian
- Angry Charlie
- Bouncing Boy
- Shining Knight
Credits
- Pencils: Karl Kesel
- Inks: Karl Kesel
The Not-So-Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy
Featuring Bouncing Boy
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Bouncing Boy [Chuck Taine]
- Cosmic Boy (cameo)
- Saturn Girl (cameo)
- Dr. F'toora (cameo)
Credits
- Script: Ty Templeton
- Pencils: Ty Templeton
- Inks: Ty Templeton
- Colors: Tom McCraw
- Letters: Ty Templeton
- Editing: Michael Eury
Story Notes
All credits from letters page in this issue.
Secrets of the Cadmus D. N. A. Project
Storyline
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.
Characters
- 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)
Credits
- Script: Karl Kesel
- Pencils: Karl Kesel
- Inks: Karl Kesel
- Colors: Tom Ziuko
- Letters: John Costanza
Story 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
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Silent Knight [Brian]
- Lady Celia Penbrook
- King Edwin Penbrook
- Sir Oswald
- Sir Grot
- Slasher
Credits
- Script: Jan Strnad
- Pencils: John Koch
- Inks: Gary Martin
- Colors: Tom McCraw
- Letters: Marjorie van Doorn
- Editing: Mark Waid
Credits
- Script: Mark Waid
- Script: Michael Eury
Story Notes
Includes letters from Jim Kelly, Bob Dobiesz and Daniel Robert.