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Secret Origins#1
Cover: Jerry Ordway & Wayne Boring
Secret Origins #1
“The Secret Origin of the Golden-Age Superman”
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Full credits
writer Roy Thomas
artist, inker Wayne Boring
cover pencils, inks Jerry Ordway
cover pencils Wayne Boring
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Letters page explains why series was created post-Crisis. Roy Thomas goes into details how odd numbered issues would cover Golden Age origins, while the even numbered ones would follow the more silver/modern age origins. Gives brief history behind Golden Age Superman, and the writers and artists associated with him, including this issue's artist Wayne Boring.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).