Dates
- Cover date
- December 1986
- On sale
- August 19, 1986
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition$1.25 cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition$1.25 cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0709893176612 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition1.75 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.75 CAD.
Barcode 0709893176612 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
pencils: Tom Grindberg, Steve Lightle, George Tuskainks: Pablo Marcos, Mike Gustovich, Steve Lightle, Jerry Acernoscript: Roy Thomas, Robert Greenbergercolors: Carl Gaffordletters: David Cody Weiss
Stories
- The Secret Origin of the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy · 16 pages
Skyman tells his teammates, Infinty, Inc., about how he and Stripesy met and thwarted some Nazi sympathizers' plans to include dynamite in a fireworks display.
- The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Flash · 22 pages
In 1940, Jay Garrick gains the power of speed after inhaling "hard water fumes" in a college lab accident. As the Flash, he rescues the kidnapped father of Joan Williams.
Reprinted in
Last Days of the Justice Society of America (2017)