DC Comics (1986) Secret Origins #50 Final Issue Death of Original Black Canary

Item Specifics

Series Name

Secret Origins

Issue Number

50

Publisher

DC Comics

Main Character

Atom

Genre

Superhero

Signed

No

Item Description

Dolphin; johnny thunder; the flash; batman and robin; black canary / cover / 1 page

* pencils ty templeton
* Inks Ty Templeton

* Genre superhero
* Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Black Canary; Dolphin

the Glimpse
BATMAN AND ROBIN / TEXT STORY / 7 PAGES

* Script Denny O'Neil
* Pencils George Perez
* Inks George Perez
* Colors Adrienne Roy
* Letters Typeset
* Editing Michael Eury

* Genre superhero
* Characters Nightwing [Dick Grayson; Robin]; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback); Johnny Grayson (flashback); Mary Grayson (flashback); Anthony Zucco (flashback); Jumbolina the World's Fattest Lady [Mary Ann Carson] (flashback); Mr. Haly (flashback); Marie the fortune teller (flashback); Magnificent Marco [Harry Winkler] (flashback); Billy Blessington (flashback)
* Synopsis Dick Grayson recalls the day his parents died and when he first glimpsed the Batman.

Notes
This is an illustrated prose version of Robin's origin.

THE FLASH / COMIC STORY / 16 PAGES

* Script Grant Morrison
* Pencils Mike Parobeck
* Inks Romeo Tanghal
* Colors Tom Ziuko
* Letters Albert De Guzman

* Genre superhero
* Characters Garfield Logan; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Joan Garrick; Fiddler; Thinker; The Shade
* Synopsis Elementary student Garfield Logan writes about when he met the two Flashes and how they defeated the villains who made Keystone City vanish.

Notes
This is a re-telling of the classic Flash of Two Worlds, from The Flash (DC, 1959 Series) #123, but from the post-Crisis one-Universe standpoint. The story is told from the viewpoint of a young Gar Logan [Beast Boy; Changeling] before he would become a superhero.

JOHNNY THUNDER / COMIC STORY / 13 PAGES

* Script Elliot S. Maggin
* Pencils Alan Weiss
* Inks Dick Giordano (pages 4-13); Alan Weiss (pages 1-3)
* Colors Greg Theakston
* Letters Steve Haynie

* Genre western-frontier
* Characters Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Sheriff Bill Tane; Dorothea Tane (flashback); Rand
* Synopsis Johnny Thunder recalls his past while plotting to save his father, Sheriff Tane, from abductors.

DOLPHIN / COMIC STORY / 15 PAGES

* Script Bove; Richard Bruning
* Pencils Bove
* Inks K. S. Wilson
* Colors Daniel Vozzo
* Letters Albert De Guzman
* Editing Michael Eury

* Genre superhero
* Characters Dolphin; Chris Landau; Dr. Meredith Riley
* Synopsis Former Navy diver Chris Landau has spent twenty years trying to find Dolphin again, who now performs a marine park in Florida. He discovers that they were both part of an alien experiment.

BLACK CANARY / COMIC STORY / 24 PAGES

* Script Alan Brennert
* Pencils Joe Staton
* Inks Dick Giordano
* Colors Julia Lacquement
* Letters Todd Klein
* Editing Michael Eury

* Genre superhero
* Characters Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Dinah Drake Lance [Black Canary] (death); Roy Harper [Speedy]; Spectre; Richard Drake (flashback); Larry Lance (flashback); Justice Society of America (flashback) [Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] (cameo); Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Atom [Al Pratt] (cameo); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (cameo); Mr. Terrific [Terrence Sloane] (cameo); Starman [Ted Knight] (cameo)]; The Reaper (flashback); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback, cameo); Justice League of America (flashback, cameo) [Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]; Aquaman; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]]
* Synopsis As the original Black Canary is hospitalized and dying of cancer, her daughter recalls how they both trained to become superheroes.
Notes

A post-Crisis re-write of the original Black Canary's foundations, and her daughter's. The original Black Canary dies in this tale.

SPACE MUSEUM / COMIC STORY / 9 PAGES

* Script Gerard Jones
* Pencils Carmine Infantino
* Inks George Perez
* Colors Anthony Tollin
* Letters Gaspar Saladino
* Editing Mark Waid

* Genre science fiction
* Characters Howard "The Wrecker" Parker; Tommy Parker; Peganans
* Synopsis Howard Parker tells his son, Tommy, how he defeated the Peganan aliens and founded the Space Museum.

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