Secret Origins Annual
#2
[Newsstand]
(1988)
- Price:
- 2.00 USD
- Pages:
- 68
- Indicia frequency:
- annually
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- DC [bullet]
- Barcode:
- 07098931691185
- Editing:
- Mark Waid
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Modern Age U.S.
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched (#1-#2); Squarebound (#3)
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
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The Unforgiving Minute
Flash / comic story / 24 pages
Credits
- Script:
- William Messner-Loebs; Rudyard Kipling (poem, page 24)
- Pencils:
- Mike Collins
- Inks:
- Frank McLaughlin; Donald Simpson
- Colors:
- Carl Gafford
- Letters:
- Albert De Guzman; typeset (page 24)
- Job Number:
- G-3856
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Flash [Wally West]; Dr. Slade; Rudolph West (flashback); Mary West (flashback); Iris West Allen (flashback); Flash [Barry Allen] (flashback); Robin [Dick Grayson; Nightwing] (flashback, cameo); Wonder Girl [Donna Troy] (flashback, cameo); Aqualad (flashback,cameo); Speedy [Roy Harper] (flashback, cameo); Starfire (flashback, cameo); Cyborg (flashback, cameo); Raven (flashback, cameo); Jericho (flashback, cameo); Changeling (flashback, cameo); Separated Man (flashback, cameo); Punch (flashback, cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Wally recounts his origin to a therapist.
Indexer Notes
Recap of Flash/Kid Flash's origin. The poem, If by Rudyard Kipling is featured on the last page.
Flash Facts
Flash Facts / filler / 0.75 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Carmine Infantino
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- G-3790
Content Information
- Genre:
- math & science
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
Flash / comic story / 31 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Robert Loren Fleming
- Pencils:
- Carmine Infantino
- Inks:
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors:
- Tom Ziuko
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Flash [Barry Allen]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Iris West Allen; Top; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Pied Piper; Heat Wave; Captain Cold; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]; Weather Wizard; Trickster [James Jesse]; Abra Kadabra; Gorilla Grodd; Professor Zoom; Anti-Monitor; Prof. Ira West (cameo); Kid Flash [Wally West] (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Dexter Myles (cameo); Superman (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Henry Allen (cameo); Nora Allen (cameo)
- 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 mantel 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.
- Reprints:
in Editing
Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
Flash -
1.
The Unforgiving Minute
Flash -
2.
Flash Facts
Flash Facts -
3.
Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt
Flash
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