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SECRET ORIGINS VOL. 2 #34
Cover Date: Winter 1988
Cover Price: $1.50
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Jerry Ordway
Inks: Ty Templeton
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Credits:
| Plot | Cary Bates, Greg Weisman |
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Alan Weiss |
| Inks | Joe Rubinstein |
| Lettering | Helen Vesik |
| Colors | Greg Theakson |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- Captain Atom (fictitious origin retold in flashbacks; see Comments)
Supporting Character(s):
- Theresa Delgado (in between Captain Atom #15 and #33)
- Wade Eiling (in between Captain Atom #22 and #23)
- Heinrich Megala (in between Captain Atom #21 and #23)
- Babylon (in between Captain Atom #18 and #23)
Other Character(s):
- Friends of the Captain (first appearance; group of "friends and acquaintances" of Captain Atom; actually actors hired to flesh out the cover story for Project Atom):
- General Datko (first appearance; US Air Force General in charge of satellite project; also in fictional flashback)
- Buddy Larson (first appearance; grown-up retelling story of how Captain Atom healed him as a child; also in fictional flashbacks)
- Harry and Mathilda Denison (first appearance; couple rescued by Captain Atom; also in fictional flashback)
- Uri Voskoff (first appearance; Russian cosmonaut rescued by Captain Atom; also in fictional flashback)
Comment(s):
- All of the flashbacks except the recollections of General Eiling and Dr. Megala are fictional cover stories that retell the origin and stories originally published by Charlton Comics in the 1950s and 1960s.
Credits:
| Story | William Messner-Loebs |
| Pencils | Irv Novick |
| Inks | Joe Rubinstein |
| Lettering | Helen Vesik |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- Rocket Red (in between Justice League International Vol. 1 #9 and #11)
Villain(s):
- General Maxim Turginev robot (first appearance; a robot disguised as a Soviet general; destroyed)
Other Character(s):
- President Mikhail Gorbachev (leader of the USSR; see Comments)
- Kilowog (in flashbacks; co-creator of the Rocket Reds)
Comment(s):
- Due to the time this story takes place, a later Russian leader may be present instead of Gorbachev.
Credits:
| Plot | Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis (plot assist) |
| Story | J.M. DeMatteis |
| Art | Stephan DeStephano |
| Lettering | Bob Lappan |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- G'Nort Esplanade Gneesmacher (life story and origin related; see Comments)
Other Character(s):
- GNelson Gneesmacher (first appearance; G'Nort's father)
- GNancy Gneesmacher (first appearance; G'Nort's mother)
- Gnelson Gnoggs (first appearance; G'Nort's uncle and former Green Lantern)
Comment(s):
- Who knows how much of this story is real... I mean, its G'Nort, right?