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CATALOG RECORD

Secret Origins #32

DC · Series began 1986 · November 1988

Dates

Cover date
November 1988
On sale
July 21, 1988
Pages
52

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #32 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct edition

    Direct

    No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

    Source ↗
  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07098931766611

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Eric Shanowerinks: Eric Shanowerscript: Keith Giffen, Peter David, Gardner Fox, Mark Waidcolors: Gene D'Angeloletters: Gaspar Saladino

Stories

  • The Secret Origin of the Justice League of America · 38 pages

    Contenders for the leadership of Appellax stage their combat on Earth through "battle form" surrogates, the Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Black Canary, the Flash, and Green Lantern first encounter and defeat the first 5 individual battle forms separately, but have to work together to defeat the sixth one. As they are about to face the seventh one in Greenland, they arrive to see Superman finishing up defeating it and flying off. This experience gives them the idea to join together as the Justice League of America.

Reprinted in

Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes (1990)

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