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  • Secret Origins Vol 2 16
Trivia
  • * In The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hourman a man dressed eeriely similar to Marvel's Captain America can be seen reading a newspaper next to a "Simon & Kirby Cigars" sign.
Letterer1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Bob Lappan
  • Agustin Mas
  • David Cody Weiss
Inker1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Karl Kesel
  • Mike Gustovich
Inker1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Karl Kesel
  • Mike Gustovich
Writer1
  • Bob Rozakis
  • Roy Thomas
  • Dann Thomas
  • Mike Fleisher
Penciler1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Stephen DeStefano
  • Michael Bair
Colourist1
  • Jerry Serpe
  • Carl Gafford
Writer1
  • Bob Rozakis
  • Roy Thomas
  • Dann Thomas
  • Mike Fleisher
StoryTitle
  • Exiles
  • 'Mazing Man
  • The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hourman
Editor1
  • Robert Greenberger
  • Roy Thomas
Penciler1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Stephen DeStefano
  • Michael Bair
Appearing
  • --12-31
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Villains: * Other Characters: * Locations: * Alley in an unnamed city in Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Villains: * Other Characters: * * Numerous Unnamed Soviet Soldiers, Guards and Prisoners Locations: * :* ::* * , * Unnamed city in * Items: * Vehicles: *
Letterer1
  • Adam Kubert
  • Bob Lappan
  • Agustin Mas
  • David Cody Weiss
Colourist1
  • Jerry Serpe
  • Carl Gafford
Editor1
  • Robert Greenberger
  • Roy Thomas
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CoverArtist
  • Stephen DeStefano
Country
  • USA
Executive Editor
  • Dick Giordano
Issue
  • 16
Volume
  • 2
Title
  • Secret Origins
Month
  • 7
Synopsis
  • --12-31
  • The story is narrated by Danny Maddox, a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag Menchkovsky since the middle of 1973. He remembers his youth when he was a child bully shaking kids down for their lunch money until a young Travis Morgan intervenes to protect Charles and Rachel . Rachel and Travis begin dating and, almost immediately after graduating from high school, they were married though Danny was not invited. It is this moment that he swears revenge against Travis. Danny next joins the Air Force where he excels at flying but he is kicked out due to "dereliction of duty" and "decking an officer." He then joins the army and is stationed in Cam Rahn Bay during the Vietnam War where he begins selling supplies on the black market and selling military intel to Russians. Then, one day, Lt. Colonel Travis Morgan of the US Air Force, arrives and stumbles upon soldiers selling military supplies. He reports it to Danny not realizing he's involved. Afterwards Danny realizes if he acts as required, the soldiers will rat him out too. If he doesn't, Travis will suspect he's involved. So he hatches a plan. Danny rats out his Russian friends to Air Force Intelligence knowing they'd send Travis to investigate. He then arranges for the Russians to smuggle him to the laboratory and warns them about Morgan's approach. When the Russians fail to take Travis down, they coerce Danny to get in a plane and take him down himself. Danny does irrevocably damage Travis' plane, but Travis destroy's Danny's plane. Danny ejects and is captured/imprisoned. Travis is also forced to eject and ends up landing in Skataris. Danny reiterates his vow to find and kill Travis Morgan.
  • Siegfried is rummaging through a dumpster in an alley when he discovers a yellow helmet with an "M" on it. He decides immediately to become a superhero whose name begins with M. After sounding out several options, he chooses 'Mazing Man as "'Mazing" is written on a can of tomato paste.
Notes
  • * The cover to the issue depicts a large pile of comics books including the following: , , Flash #1, Infinity, Inc #35, , Wonder Woman #6, and . * In Exiles there is no real villian in the story-sense as the antagonist is the one telling the story. * Mazing Man is a one-page story. * The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Hourman is told as a letter written from Hourman I to his son. A footnote indicates that Hourman II receives the letter in Infinity, Inc. #40. * The newspaper Rex Tyler reads has two articles. The first one is regarding the Flash (Jay Garrick) fighting the "Faultless Four" which occurred in . There is an accompanying photo which is the scene depicted on the cover of Flash Comics #1. The other is a text article regarding the Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis). * Rex Tyler's mailing address is 328 S 38th Street, NYC, NY.
Publisher
  • DC Comics
Year
  • 1987