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Secret Origins, #50 Direct

Published: August 1990

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Issue Contents:

Story Featuring Batman and Robin , Story Featuring The Flash , Story Featuring Johnny Thunder , Story Featuring Dolphin , Story Featuring Black Canary

Credits
Story Notes

Templeton's signature denotes the end of the series.

The Glimpse

Story Featuring Batman and Robin

Storyline

Dick Grayson recalls the day his parents died and when he first glimpsed the Batman.

Credits
Story Notes

This is an illustrated prose version of Robin's origin.

Flash of Two Worlds

Story Featuring The Flash

Storyline

Elementary student Garfield Logan writes about when he met the two Flashes and how they defeated the villains who made Keystone City vanish.

Credits
Story Notes

This is a re-telling of the classic Flash of Two Worlds, from The Flash (DC, 1959 Series) #123, but from the post-Crisis one-Universe standpoint. The story is told from the viewpoint of a young Gar Logan [Beast Boy; Changeling] before he would become a superhero.

Fortunehead!

Story Featuring Johnny Thunder

Storyline

Johnny Thunder recalls his past while plotting to save his father, Sheriff Tane, from abductors.

Credits
Story Notes

Greg Theakston name misspelled as "Theakson" in credits.

Reflections of a Deep Fantasy

Story Featuring Dolphin

Storyline

Former Navy diver Chris Landau has spent twenty years trying to find Dolphin again, who now performs a marine park in Florida. He discovers that they were both part of an alien experiment.

Credits
Story Notes

Dolphin created by J. Scott Pike. With Special Thanks to Tom Joyner and Mark Waid.

Unfinished Business

Story Featuring Black Canary

Storyline

As the original Black Canary is hospitalized and dying of cancer, her daughter recalls how they both trained to become superheroes.

Credits
Story Notes

A post-Crisis re-write of the original Black Canary's foundations, and her daughter's. The original Black Canary dies in this tale. With acknowledgment to the works of Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox, Gerry Conway, Paul Levitz, Frank Miller, Mike Barr, Denny O'Neil, and Mike Grell.

The Startling Secret of the Space Museum!

Story Featuring Space Museum

Storyline

Howard Parker tells his son, Tommy, how he defeated the Peganan aliens and founded the Space Museum.

Credits

Letter Column Featuring Secret Admirers

"No "Secrets Behind the Origins" this month, friend…"

Credits
Story Notes

Includes letters from B.B. Davis, Chuck Dill, Sir Jon Johnson, Jacob Gilbert, Charles J. Sperling and Dale Coe. Publisher credits.

The Adventure - Part IV: Egging Some Poachers!

Ad Featuring Capri Sun Juice Drinks

Ad Featuring TurboGrafx-16 , Ad Featuring Bonk's Adventure

"A long, long time ago, later than you think…"

Storyline

Caveman Bonk crashes through the castle wall to try to rescue the princess from King Drool.

Story Notes

Between pages 7-8 of Dolphin story.

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