Secret Origins Vol. 3 #39

Type: comic book / magazine
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Date: Apr 1989
Cover Price: $1.50
cover by Mike W. Kaluta

Contents

“The Secret Origin of Man-Bat” -- 19 pages

  • written by Jan Strnad
  • art by Kevin Nowlan
  • retells the origin of Man-Bat (Kirk Langstrom), expanding on his origin from Detective Comics Vol. 1 #400

“The Myth of the Creation” -- 19 pages

  • written by Grant Morrison
  • pencils by Tom Grummett
  • inks by Doug Hazlewood
  • as Buddy Baker tries to regain his powers, aliens review his origins, exposing the differences between his pre- and post-Crisis on Infinite Earths origins and foreshadowing how this would be a major concern of Morrison’s final issues
  • continues into Animal Man Vol. 1 #10


See It in Context on the Continuity Pages:

animalman05Animal Man: Grant Morrison Era (1988-1990)

by Julian Darius | in The Continuity Pages | complete as of 19 June 2013

Animal Man. Who cares, right? Well, no one really did. That’s why he’d been virtually forgotten when DC revived him for his own ongoing. So why give such a character an ongoing? Well… Comics legend Alan… [more]


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