Secret Origins
#40
[Direct]
(May 1989)
DC,
1986 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 1.85 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1989-03-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Mark Waid
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
![Cover Thumbnail for Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #40 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/753/w200/753356.jpg?2213251674092435048)
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Gorillas in Our Midst: The Secret Origin of Gorilla City
Gorilla City / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates; Greg Weisman
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino
- Inks
- Mike DeCarlo
- Colors
- Shelley Eiber
- Letters
- Agustin Mas
- Job Number
- G-4579
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Gorilla Grodd; King Solovar; Sir Albert Wesley; Mr. Barwick; Mr. Hughes
- Synopsis
- A retelling of the origin of Gorilla City, beginning with a space traveler who enhances the gorillas' intelligence and who dies by the actions of Grodd.
The Legend of Congorilla
Congorilla / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Tom Joyner
- Pencils
- Fred Butler
- Inks
- Keith Wilson [as Kez Wilson]
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Janice Chiang
- Job Number
- G-4686
- Genre
- jungle; superhero
- Characters
- Congorilla; Congo Bill; Doc Kruger; Kawolo (dies); N'Solo
- Synopsis
- Retells the origin of Congo Bill receiving and first using the Congorilla ring, from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #248.
Indexer Notes
A darker slant to the Congorilla character.
IF U CN RD THS
Detective Chimp / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Andy Helfer (plot); Mark Waid [as Rusty Wells] (co-script); Dan Raspler [as Rusty Wells] (co-script)
- Pencils
- Mark Badger
- Inks
- Mark Badger
- Colors
- Robbie Busch
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- G-4439
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Detective Chimp; Y-Nad; K-Ram; Randolph; Gus
- Synopsis
- Two aliens give a chimpanzee the power of human thought, and the chimpanzee solves a local murder mystery.
- Reprints
-
in DC's Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told (DC, 2021 series) (2020 [April 2021])
-
Indexer Notes
A humorous approach to why Detective Chimp was so intelligent.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- L-3685
- Synopsis
- Includes 4 explanatory articles: Secrets Behind The Goofy Cover; Secrets Behind The Origins Gorilla City; Secrets Behind The Origins Congorilla; Secrets Behind The Origins Detective Chimp.
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Mark Lucas; Charles J. Sperling. Also includes information on the next 3 issues of Secret Origins.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
3 Apes 3
Gorilla Grodd; Congorilla; Detective Chimp -
1.
Gorillas in Our Midst: The Secret Origin of Gorilla City
Gorilla City -
2.
The Legend of Congorilla
Congorilla -
3.
IF U CN RD THS
Detective Chimp -
4.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Denys Howard
- Roy Lyons
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Mark Waid
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