CATALOG RECORD

Secret Origins #9

DC · Series began 1986 · December 1986

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Dates

Cover date: December 1986
On sale: August 19, 1986
Pages: 52

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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.
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Newsstand edition$1.25 cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0709893176612 · shared with another edition
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Canadian price edition1.75 CAD cover

Canadian

Printed cover price 1.75 CAD.

Barcode 0709893176612 · shared with another edition
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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.

Publisher’s description

Find out why Sylvester Pemberton became the Star-Spangled Kid...and why from now on you better call him Skyman!

Reprinted in

Last Days of the Justice Society of America (2017)