Secret Origins #4 [Newsstand]
(July 1986)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-04-10
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893176607
Editing
Roy Thomas; Robert Greenberger

Issue Notes

On sale date from Meanwhile column in this issue ("Week of...") and DC Releases #26.
This issue is a variant of Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #4 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

How It Began! (Table of Contents)

Firestorm / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Milgrom (signed as MILGROM)
Inks
Al Milgrom (signed as MILGROM)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Firestorm

The Secret Origin of Firestorm, the Nuclear Man (Table of Contents: 1)

Firestorm / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils
George Tuska (credited)
Inks
Pablo Marcos (credited)
Colors
Nansi Hoolahan (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited); Carrie Spiegle (credited)
Editing
Janice Race (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Day's end.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Firestorm; Crystal Frost (flashback); Wendy Olsen; Clarissa Stein (flashback); Danton Black (flashback); Brad Baxter (flashback); Eddie Earhart (flashback, cameo)
Synopsis
Prof. Martin Stein looks back on his life: his college life, his marriage and divorce, and the nuclear accident that merged himself with student Ronnie Raymond to become Firestorm.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Echoes of Creation (Table of Contents: 3)

The Secret Origin of Secret Origins / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Gerry Conway (credited)
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-2359
Synopsis
Article about the creation of Firestorm.

Indexer Notes

Also includes a preview of the cover of the next issue.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. How It Began!
    Firestorm
  2. 1. The Secret Origin of Firestorm, the Nuclear Man
    Firestorm
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. Echoes of Creation
    The Secret Origin of Secret Origins
This issue was modified by
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore