Secret Origins
#18
[newsstand]
(September 1987)
- Price:
- 1.25 USD
- Pages:
- 52
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- DC [bullet]
- Barcode:
- 0709893176609
- Editing:
- Roy Thomas; Greg Weisman
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- standard Modern Age US
- Paper Stock:
- glossy cover; newsprint interior
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched (#50 squarebound)
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing series
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Before and After Science
The Creeper / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Andy Helfer
- Pencils:
- Keith Giffen
- Inks:
- Rick Bryant
- Colors:
- Carl Gafford
- Letters:
- John Costanza
- Job Number:
- G-2981
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Creeper [Jack Ryder]; Moe; Manny; Emil Yatz
- Synopsis:
- Jack Ryder is captured by a mob boss, drugged, shot and left for dead. He is brought back to life by Professor Yatz but the process has created the Creeper.
Indexer Notes
This origin, although based on the original Showcase tale, stresses that the Creeper is not quite sane.
The Tale of the Green Lantern
Green Lantern [Alan Scott] / comic story / 22 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils:
- George Freeman
- Inks:
- George Freeman
- Colors:
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters:
- Jean Simek
- Job Number:
- G-2622
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Guardians of the Universe; Star-Heart; Chang the Lampmaker; Joe; Mrs. Billings; Billings; Jimmy Henton; Albert Dekker; Irene Miller; Bart Murdock; Danny Miller; Judge Homer Wake
- Synopsis:
- A piece of the Star-Heart travels to ancient Earth where it is shaped into a lantern that eventually falls into the hands of Alan Scott, who becomes the first Green Lantern.
Indexer Notes
This is based on the stories in the early All American Comics, but does include the continuity of the Guardians, and their creation of the Starheart as shown in Green Lantern circa 115.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers / letters page / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Roy Thomas
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- L-2809
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Anthony R. Cardno, Susanna Doyle, Charles D. Brown, Ken Ruby III and George A. Williams.
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; The Creeper -
1.
Before and After Science
The Creeper -
2.
The Tale of the Green Lantern
Green Lantern [Alan Scott] -
3.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers
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- Jerry Hillegas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Klein
- Gregory Fischer
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