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SECRET ORIGINS VOL. 2 #18
Cover Date: September 1987
Cover Price: $1.25
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Cover Credits:
Art: Bill Sienkiewicz (signed)
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Credits:
| Plot | Andy Helfer, Keith Giffen |
| Story | Andy Helfer |
| Pencils | Keith Giffen |
| Inks | Rick Bryant |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Colors | Carl Gafford |
| Editing | Greg Weisman |
Feature Character(s):
- The Creeper (Jack Ryder; first chronological appearance; a newspaper columnist for the Herald-Examiner; appears next Beware The Creeper Vol. 1 #1; see Comment)
Villain(s):
- Manny (first chronological appearance; a gangster; dies)
- Moe (first chronological appearance; a gangster; dies)
- Galt (first chronological appearance; a thug; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Dr. Emil Yatz (first chronological appearance; a scientist, implants inorganic matter transfer device in Jack Ryder; dies)
Comment(s):
- This story retells the story from Showcase Vol. 1 #73 with new details.
Credits:
| Plot | Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas |
| Story | Roy Thomas |
| Art | George Freeman |
| Lettering | Jean Simek |
| Colors | Anthony Tollin |
Feature Character(s):
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott; first chronological appearance; an engineer; next in flashback in Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends; see Comment)
Supporting Character(s):
- The Starheart (a piece of the Starheart that fell to earth, most of which becomes Alan Scott's lantern)
- Irene Miller (first chronological appearance; a secretary for a Capitol City radio station, next All-American Comics Vol. 1 #19; see Comment)
Villain(s):
- Albert Dekker (first chronological appearance; a crooked businessman, dies)
- Bart Murdock (first chronological appearance; a gangster, dies)
- Bart Murdock's gang (first chronological appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Chang (first chronological appearance; a 1st Century Chinese lamp maker, next Green Lantern Vol. 2 #108)
- Chang's wife (next in Green Lantern Vol. 2 #107/2)
- Billings (first appearance; mental patient who is cured by the Lantern)
- Jimmy Henton (first chronological appearance; Alan Scott's friend; dies)
- Danny Miller (first chronological appearance; Irene's brother)
- Judge Wake and his daughter
Comment(s):
- This story is a retelling of the Green Lantern stories from All-American Comics #16-#18 with new details.
- This story is narrated by Alan Scott's lantern.
- The events related in this story take place from circa 1 CE to summer 1940.