Secret Origins
#30
[Newsstand]
(September 1988)
DC,
1986 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-06-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 070989317666 09
- Editing
- Mark Waid (editor); Roy Thomas (creative editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #139.
This issue is a variant of Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #30 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #30 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
The Elongated Man; Plastic Man / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ty Templeton (signed)
- Inks
- Ty Templeton (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Elongated Man
![Cover Thumbnail for Secret Origins (DC, 1986 series) #30 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1286/w200/1286323.jpg?-562867569935864830)
![Cover Thumbnail for Secret Origins (1986 series) #30 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/12/w100/12723.jpg?3358206399438501024)
The Home Stretch
The Elongated Man / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Gerard Jones
- Pencils
- Ty Templeton
- Inks
- Greg Miehm
- Colors
- Julianna Ferriter
- Letters
- Tim Harkins
- Editing
- Mark Waid
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Elongated Man; Sue Dibny; Ken Dibny; Flash [Wally West]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Captain Boomerang (cameo); Justice League of America [Batman; Green Lantern; Aquaman; Green Arrow; Black Canary] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Ralph and Sue return to Ralph's hometown for his 30th birthday party and family reunion. Ralph relates his origin to Wally West.
The Secret Origin of Plastic Man
Plastic Man / comic story / 19 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Stephen DeStefano
- Inks
- Paul Fricke
- Colors
- Elizabeth Safian
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Editing
- Mark Waid
- Job Number
- G-3369
- Genre
- superhero; humor
- Characters
- Plastic Man [Eel O'Brian]; Woozy Winks; Skizzle; Brother Willis; Burp the Twerp
- Synopsis
- After a being shot during a robbery and left behind by his fellow thieves, Eel O'Brian becomes Plastic Man and decides to get revenge on the gang that left him behind.
Indexer Notes
A liberal adaptation of the story from Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #1 (August 1941).
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Peter Sanderson; Roy Thomas
- Pencils
- Michael Bair (cover preview)
- Inks
- Michael Bair (cover preview)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-3266
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Greg Gildersleeve, David Metz, Charles J. Sperling, and Robert Kowalski.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Elongated Man; Plastic Man -
1.
The Home Stretch
The Elongated Man -
2.
The Secret Origin of Plastic Man
Plastic Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers
This issue was modified by
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.