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GOLDEN AGE SECRET FILES #1
Cover Date: February 2001
Cover Price: $4.95
Cover Credits:
Art: Michael Lark (signed)
Colors: Digital Chameleon
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Credits:
| Story | John Ostrander |
| Art | Cliff Chiang |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Color separations | Jamison |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
- Clark Kent (last/next in ???)
- JSA:
- Sand (last/next in ???)
- Sentinel (last/next in ???; also in flashback)
- Flash I (last/next in ???)
- Wildcat II (last/next in ???)
- Black Canary II
- Hawkgirl II
- Doctor Mid-Nite II (in between JSA #20 and #21)
- Star-Spangled Kid II (last/next in ???)
- Johnny Thunder (in between JSA #1 and #29; also in flashback following Big All-American Comic Book and preceding DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- Crimson Avenger (in flashbacks preceding Secret Origins Vol. 2 #5 and between Leading Comics #13 and #14)
Supporting Character(s):
- Perry White (last/next in ???)
- Rama Kushna (in flashback)
- Pat Dugan (behind the scenes; last in JSA Secret Files #2; next in Superman: The Man of Steel #110)
- Speed Saunders (last/next in ???)
Villain(s):
- Sportsmaster clones (first appearance; agents of The Council)
Guest Appearance(s):
- Guardian (in flashback following Star Spangled Comics #39 and preceding DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- Liberty Belle (in flashback following Star Spangled Comics #39/5 and preceding DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- Robotman I (in flashback only; between Star Spangled Comics #39/3 and #40/3)
- Hawkgirl I (in flashback in between Big All-American Comic Book [Twelfth Story] and All-Star Comics #23)
- Hawkman (in flashback in between Flash Comics #61/4 and All-Star Comics #23)
- Shining Knight II (in flashback in between Adventure Comics #94/2 and #95/2)
- Atom I (in flashback in between All-Star Comics #23 and DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- Doctor Fate I (in flashback following Green Lantern: Brightest Day, Blackest Night and preceding DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- Amazing-Man I (in flashback between Young All-Stars #31 and flashback in Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #12)
- Commander Steel (in flashback following Young All-Stars #9 and preceding flashback in Justice Society of America Vol. 3 #2)
- Tarantula (in flashback following Star Spangled Comics #19/3 and preceding flashback in Manhunter Vol. 3 #34)
- Hourman I (in flashback following flashback in Hourman #5 and preceding DC Universe Holiday Bash #2/6)
- President Roosevelt (in flashback)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- In addition to those characters in attendance at the White House 'do' remembered by Johnny Thunder, various characters are seen in reminiscence only, taking no part in the events of the story, and are not listed above. However, for the sake of completeness, the following are depicted: Wing, Starman I, The Spectre, Hippolyta, Black Condor, Quicksilver, Dollman, Uncle Sam, the Blackhawks, King, Red Bee, The Whip, Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys and Red Tornado I.
Synopsis: - Journalist Clark Kent has been working on a piece on the Crimson Avenger, probably the first costumed 'mystery man' of the Golden Age of super-heroes. He covers everything up to his heroic death, but his editor, Perry White, is not satisfied and wants to know how and why the Crimson Avenger started - what was the Avenger avenging? Kent begins his investigation by speaking to the "elder statesmen" of the JSA who, though they are able to offer recollections of various other old-timer heroes, from Sandman to the ridiculous Red Tornado, know little of the Crimson Avenger save that he used to pose as a criminal to infiltrate gangs. The Flash recalls that Johnny Thunder actually seemed friendly with the Crimson Avenger, but Thunder is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer's and gives no indication that he's even aware of the others' presence at his bedside.
- After the heroes are gone, Thunder does indeed recall a conversation he had with the Crimson Avenger while at the White House. The Crimson Avenger said that his service in the first great war scarred him horribly and that he went to the Himalayas to die. However, he was rescued by the servant of the goddess Rama Kushna and spent some time in the city of Nanda Parabat. Here he was somehow rejuvenated, and saw a vision of a great, super man who could perform wondrous deeds and who died in a reporter's arms after saving the world from a rampaging monster. And so Lee Travis became the Crimson Avenger, avenging the death of a great man far into the future, hoping in so doing to avert his death.
Credits:
| Story | Tom Peyer |
| Pencils | Peter Grau |
| Inks | Claude St. Aubin |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Tony Bedard |
Feature Character(s):
- Justice Society of America:
- Sandman I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in flashback in All-Star Squadron #66)
- Doctor Mid-Nite I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in All-American Comics #36/7)
- Green Lantern (Alan Scott; in between All-American Comics #35 and #36)
- Doctor Fate I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in More Fun Comics #77/2)
- Hawkman (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in Flash Comics #27/6)
- Hawkgirl I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in Flash Comics #27/6)
- Starman I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in Adventure Comics #72)
- Johnny Thunder (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in Flash Comics #28/2)
- Flash I (in between Flash Comics #26 and #27)
- Spectre (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in More Fun Comics #77/6)
- Atom I (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in All-American Comics #36/3)
- Hourman I (last in Adventure Comics #70/3; next in All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1/4)
Other Character(s):
- Count Deschamps (first appearance)
- Hooty (last in All-Star Comics #9; next in All-American Comics #36/7)
Synopsis: - A gala in honor of the Justice Society, which some of the guests find a trifle... odd. Some members of the JSA are also finding it difficult, being unaccustomed to fine dining - how do you eat a lobster anyway? And those "posher" members of the team discuss the others, whether they are perhaps adequately "refined." Just as Doctor Mid-Nite expounds his thoughts on the matter, a gala guest brings him an uneaten lobster as a gift for his owl, as "the smell of him has quite devastated my appetite." Mid-Nite fumes and Green Lantern can barely contain his mirth at the exposure of their own lack of "refinement."
Credits:
| Story | Peter Gross |
| Art | Peter Gross |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
Feature Character(s):
- Doctor Occult
- Zatara (last in flashbacks in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5/Secret Origins Vol. 2 #27/2; next in Action Comics #1/2)
Synopsis: - Zatara, the stage magician, is stopped on the street by a man who asks him if he believes in magic. It is Doctor Occult, who has become known for exposing fraud mediums and the like. However, he has not come to expose Zatara as a fraud, but to tell him that he knows that he is a true magic user, one of the few. Occult is concerned at the way in which magic has been cheapened, and asks Zatara to safeguard magic's future by becoming a costumed adventurer, but one who is open about being a magic user. Zatara says he will consider Occult's words, but for now, he has a stage show to perform in.
Credits:
| Story | Jason Hernandez-Rosenblatt |
| Pencils | Jamal Igle |
| Inks | Rodney Ramos |
| Colors | Tom McCraw |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
Feature Character(s):
- Sivana
Synopsis: - 1939: A young Thaddeus Sivana has visited the New York World's Fair and has learnt of the many wondrous applications of modern technology. He has figured out how to control people's minds through animation techniques and is just trying it out on his classmates, to his teacher's horror.