Secret Origins
#13
[Newsstand]
(April 1987)
DC,
1986 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1987-01-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893176604
- Editing
- Roy Thomas; Bob Greenberger
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #35.
This issue is a variant of Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #13 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #13 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Nightwing; Johnny Thunder; The Whip / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Pat Broderick (signed)
- Inks
- Pat Broderick (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; the Whip
- Reprints
-
in Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies (DC, 2013 series) ([October] 2013) - in Last Days of the Justice Society of America (DC, 2017 series) ([July] 2017)
- in The New Teen Titans (DC, 2014 series) #14 ([September] 2022)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Secret Origins (1986 series) #13 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/12/w100/12706.jpg?2067281863161891677)
The Secret Origin of Nightwing
Nightwing / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Dan Mishkin
- Pencils
- Erik Larsen
- Inks
- Mike DeCarlo
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- John Costanza; Todd Klein (p. 1, uncredited)
- Editing
- Robert Greenberger
- Job Number
- G-2957
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; John Grayson; Mary Grayson; Haly; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Tony Zucco; Tweedledee (cameo); Tweedledum (cameo); Teen Titans [Jericho [Joseph Wilson]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Aqualad [Garth]; Raven [Rachel Roth]; Changeling [Garfield Logan]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Starfire [Koriand'r]]; Aquaman (cameo); Flash [Barry Allen] (cameo); Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Trigon (cameo); Brother Blood (cameo); Robin [Jason Todd] (cameo); Karras (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Dick Grayson spends his twentieth birthday on Tamaran and tells his origin to Jericho.
- Reprints
- in Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies (DC, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
- in The New Teen Titans (DC, 2014 series) #14 ([September] 2022)
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- Keywords
- Batcave; Batmobile; Tamaran
Indexer Notes
Takes place during The New Teen Titans #16-19 or Tales of the Teen Titans #74-77.
Klein credit from the artist.
The Secret Origin of the Whip
The Whip / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas; Dann Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike Gustovich (credited)
- Inks
- Mike Gustovich (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- Agustin Más (credited)
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (creative editor); Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger) (coordinating editor)
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Whip [Rodrigo Gaynor]; Whip [Don Fernando Suarez]; Carlos Fuentes; Marissa Dillon; Diablo (horse); Sheriff Todd
- Synopsis
- Rodrigo Gaynor stop off in the town of Seguro where he learns of ranchers plans to lynch a Mexican in the jail. He dons the uniform of The Whip, who had protected the poor in the previous century.
The Secret Origin of Johnny Thunder
Johhny Thunder / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited)
- Pencils
- Mike Clark (credited)
- Inks
- Dave Hunt (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- Agustin Más (credited)
- Editing
- Roy Thomas (credited) (creative editor); Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger) (coordinating editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Johnny Thunder; Thunderbolt; Simon B. Thunder; Mildred Thunder; Captain Cosher; Mr. Gimple
- Synopsis
- Johnny Thunder is kidnapped as a baby and taken to Bahdnisia and given the power to control the Thunderbolt, but he escapes and returns to New York before he knows the magic word to activate his powers.
- Reprints
- in Last Days of the Justice Society of America (DC, 2017 series) ([July] 2017)
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- Keywords
- Bahdnisia
Indexer Notes
Liberally adapted from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1.
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Secret Admirers / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited); Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-2639
Indexer Notes
Letters from Chris Khalaf, Charles D. Brown, Daniel Smith, and G.A. Olinger.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Nightwing; Johnny Thunder; The Whip -
1.
The Secret Origin of Nightwing
Nightwing -
2.
The Secret Origin of the Whip
The Whip -
3.
The Secret Origin of Johnny Thunder
Johhny Thunder -
4.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers
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- Jim Van Dore
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