Issue | #50 |
Published | August 1990 |
Frequency | bi-monthly |
Cover Price | 3.95 USD; 4.95 CAD |
Pages | 100 |
Editing | Michael Eury; Mark Waid |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Black Canary; Dolphin |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Ty Templeton |
Inks | Ty Templeton |
Characters | Nightwing [Dick Grayson; Robin]; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback); Johnny Grayson (flashback); Mary Grayson (flashback); Anthony Zucco (flashback); Jumbolina the World's Fattest Lady [Mary Ann Carson] (flashback); Mr. Haly (flashback); Marie the fortune teller (flashback); Magnificent Marco [Harry Winkler] (flashback); Billy Blessington (flashback) |
Synopsis | Dick Grayson recalls the day his parents died and when he first glimpsed the Batman. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Denny O'Neil |
Pencils | George Perez |
Inks | George Perez |
Colors | Adrienne Roy |
Letters | Typeset |
Editing | Michael Eury |
Notes | This is an illustrated prose version of Robin's origin. |
Characters | Garfield Logan; Flash [Jay Garrick]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Joan Garrick; Fiddler; Thinker; The Shade |
Synopsis | Elemntary student Garfield Logan writes about when he met the two Flashes and how they defeated the villains who made Keystone City vanish. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Grant Morrison |
Pencils | Mike Parobeck |
Inks | Romeo Tanghal |
Colors | Tom Ziuko |
Letters | Albert De Guzman |
Notes | This is a re-telling of the classic Flash of Two Worlds, from Flash, The (DC, 1959 Series) #123, but from the post-Crisis one-Universe standpoint. The story is told from the viewpoint of a young Gar Logan [Beast Boy; Changeling] before he would become a superhero. |
Characters | Johnny Thunder [John Tane]; Sheriff Bill Tane; Dorothea Tane (flashback); Rand |
Synopsis | Johnny Thunder recalls his past while plotting to save his father, Sheriff Tane, from abductors. |
Genre | Western |
Script | Elliot S. Maggin |
Pencils | Alan Weiss |
Inks | Dick Giordano (pages 4-13); Alan Weiss (pages 1-3) |
Colors | Greg Theakston |
Letters | Steve Haynie |
Characters | Dolphin; Chris Landau; Dr. Meredith Riley |
Synopsis | Former Navy diver Chris Landau has spent twenty years trying to find Dolphin again, who now performs a marine park in Florida. He discovers that they were both part of an alien experiment. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bove; Richard Bruning |
Pencils | Bove |
Inks | K. S. Wilson |
Colors | Daniel Vozzo |
Letters | Albert De Guzman |
Editing | Michael Eury |
Characters | Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Dinah Drake Lance [Black Canary] (death); Roy Harper [Speedy]; Spectre; Richard Drake (flashback); Larry Lance (flashback); Justice Society of America (flashback) [Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott]; Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Dr. Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] (cameo); Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Wildcat [Ted Grant]; Atom [Al Pratt] (cameo); Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (cameo); Mr. Terrific [Terrence Sloane] (cameo); Starman [Ted Knight] (cameo)]; The Reaper (flashback); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (flashback, cameo); Justice League of America (flashback, cameo) [Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]; Aquaman; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]] |
Synopsis | As the original Black Canary is hospitalized and dying of cancer, her daughter recalls how they both trained to become superheroes. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Alan Brennert |
Pencils | Joe Staton |
Inks | Dick Giordano |
Colors | Julia Lacquement |
Letters | Todd Klein |
Editing | Michael Eury |
Notes | A post-Crisis re-write of the original Black Canary's foundations, and her daughter's. The original Black Canary dies in this tale. |
Characters | Howard "The Wrecker" Parker; Tommy Parker; Peganans |
Synopsis | Howard Parker tells his son, Tommy, how he defeated the Peganan aliens and founded the Space Museum. |
Genre | Science Fiction |
Script | Gerard Jones |
Pencils | Carmine Infantino |
Inks | George Perez |
Colors | Anthony Tollin |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Editing | Mark Waid |