Secret Origins #5 [Direct]
(August 1986)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price:
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
monthly
Indicia Publisher:
DC Comics, Inc.
Brand:
DC
Editing:
Roy Thomas (creative editor); Robert Greenberger (coordinating editor)
Format:
Color; Standard Modern Age US; Saddle-Stitched (#50 Squarebound); Ongoing

Issue Notes

This issue has variants.


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Crimson Avenger / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
Gene Colan
Inks:
Mike Gustovich
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Crimson Avenger

The Crimson Avenger (Table of Contents)

Crimson Avenger / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas
Pencils:
Gene Colan
Inks:
Mike Gustovich
Colors:
Carl Gafford
Letters:
David Cody Weiss
Job Number:
G-1883

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Claudia Barker; Mrs. Vangilder; Orson Welles; Bill Dock
Synopsis:
In 1938, Newspaper publisher Lee Travis attends a Halloween party and foils robbers who dressed as aliens to take advantage of civilian panic during the broadcast of the Orson Welles radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds.

Indexer Notes

Features the Crimson Avenger in his original mystery man style.


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Guest Meanwhile... / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Dan Adlerman
Letters:
typeset

[Detective Comics #22] (Table of Contents)

Crimson Avenger / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Jim Chambers (original); Al Dellinges (redrawn art)
Inks:
Jim Chambers (original); Al Dellinges (redrawn art)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Secret Origin of Secret Origins / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Roy Thomas
Letters:
typeset
Job Number:
L-2366

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from Steve Smith, Raul Wrona, John K. Austin, Neil Ahlquist, Neal Alhadeff and Paul Emrath.


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. The Crimson Avenger
    Crimson Avenger
  2. 2. [no title indexed]
    Guest Meanwhile...
  3. 3. [Detective Comics #22]
    Crimson Avenger
  4. 4. [no title indexed]
    The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
This issue was most recently modified by:
  • Roy Lyons
  • Mike Nielsen
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Bob Klein
  • Gregory Fischer