Secret Origins #41

In "A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 1," a man with no memory walks into Paul Gambi’s Central City tailor shop, seeking answers. Gambi, the tailor who outfits the Flash’s rogues, offers a strange kind of help—by recounting the origins of the very villains he serves, hoping one story might spark a forgotten truth.

In "A Rogue by Any Other Name, Chapter 4: Captain Cold and Heat Wave," Paul Gambi recounts the unlikely beginnings of two criminals whose paths cross in a moment of unexpected courage. When Heat Wave's reckless fireplay leads to a heroic rescue, he and Captain Cold find themselves drawn into a new alliance—with Trickster and Piper—on the fringes of the criminal underworld.

In this 1989 installment from *Secret Origins* #41, Paul Gambi unravels the pasts of two unlikely rogues: Captain Boomerang, the boomerang-wielding criminal inventor, and the two-bit burglar known as the Weather Wizard. When news of the Flash stirs something deep within a mysterious stranger, a long-forgotten identity begins to surface—just as the pieces of their shared history start to click into place.