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Issue: Secret Origins Annual #2

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Publication Date: September 1988

Issue #2
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Detail

Issues: #2 of 3 Issues (8 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Direct

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 05/12/1988

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $2.70 CAD
£0.80 GBP
$2.00 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: On-sale date based on shipping date from Direct Currents #3 and copyright registration.

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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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Variants3

2 Secret Origins Annual #2 [Direct]

Secret Origins Annual #2 [Canadian]

Secret Origins Annual #2 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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Content Items (4 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

The Unforgiving Minute

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset (page 24)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: ... and then she said, Owen, you care more...

Synopsis: Wally recounts his origin to a therapist.

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Miscellaneous

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)

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Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction, science and technology

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)

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Louie (flashback); Detective Russo (flashback); Human Thunderbolt (flashback); Prof. Ira West (cameo); Dexter Myles (cameo)

First Line: Just like a skipping stone, my feet are moving so swiftly...

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 mantle 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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes #[nn] published March 1990
as Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 31

Notes: Based on the original story from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #4 by Robert Kanigher, Carmine Infantino & Julius Schwartz.