To be perfectly honest, I'm interesting in adding every issue of Secret Origins that I don't already own to my want list but let's start with this one. When this series was first released, I ignored it completely as I assumed it was just a rehasing of origin stories that I'd heard a million times. Boy, was I wrong! This series includes some of the best stories published by DC in the 1980s. Just this week I learned about this issue with a Jonah Hex origin story. Not only that, but I learned that it is drawn by one of my all-time favourite artists: Gray Morrow. How have I not known this? That's what I love about collecting comic books - there's always some nice surprise around the corner. Oh, and the other story? It's drawn by Murphy Anderson, who is no slouch in the talent department. A book with art by two Hall of Famers and a nice JGL cover? The search begins immediately.Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Add It To My Want List: Secret Origins #21
To be perfectly honest, I'm interesting in adding every issue of Secret Origins that I don't already own to my want list but let's start with this one. When this series was first released, I ignored it completely as I assumed it was just a rehasing of origin stories that I'd heard a million times. Boy, was I wrong! This series includes some of the best stories published by DC in the 1980s. Just this week I learned about this issue with a Jonah Hex origin story. Not only that, but I learned that it is drawn by one of my all-time favourite artists: Gray Morrow. How have I not known this? That's what I love about collecting comic books - there's always some nice surprise around the corner. Oh, and the other story? It's drawn by Murphy Anderson, who is no slouch in the talent department. A book with art by two Hall of Famers and a nice JGL cover? The search begins immediately.
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I own this comic, it's a nice one. Incidentally, one of my all-time favorite lines of dialogue in a comic was in All-Star Squadron # 35, (also written by Roy Thomas of course) where Black Condor says, (referring to his life on Earth 2 just prior to emigrating to Earth X) "I've got nothing back there--just a fake life as a dead Senator!"
I can't help but feel sorry for Roy Thomas, who worked so hard at making the DC continuity work, both pre-Crisis and post-Crisis. And see what happened...
It's a good thing that we've still got these cool comics to go back to, if we simply forget what has happened since!
Lots of good stuff in SECRET ORIGINS. And I think it only got better in the later issues. I remember ignoring it in the first year or two. Then I started noticing writers and artists I loved contributed some issues.
Also, characters I never thought they would get their own issues did get their spotlight. Some I never heard of before.
In fact it was one of those, an obscure character named Midnight (a Spirit look-alike) in issues # 28 that got me hooked on that series. It was drawn and inked by Gil Kane!
I've mentioned before on CBR that Secret Origins was one of the first series I made a point of amassing a complete run of after I got back into comics a few years back. A rock-solid series, from #1 all the way through #50, annuals included.
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