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SECRET ORIGINS VOL. 2 #27
Cover Date: June 1988
Cover Price: $1.50
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Tom Artis
Inks: Doug Hazlewood
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Credits:
| Plot | Ehrich Weiss |
| Story | Robert Loren Fleming |
| Pencils | Tom Artis |
| Inks | P. Craig Russell |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatanna (last in Spectre Vol. 2 #11)
Villain(s):
- Felix Faust (last in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12; also in flashbacks, including flashback in DCU Halloween Special)
- Dekan Drache (first appearance; gives up physical existence to bring Faust back to this dimension; briefly in flashback)
Other Character(s):
- Doctor Mist (last in Justice League International Vol. 1 #12; origins also retold in flashbacks)
- citizens of Kor (first appearance; a city of mages ruled by Nommo; destroyed in battle with Felix Faust over 7000 years ago, most die; in flashback)
- citizens of the Hidden City of the Homo Magi (first appearance?; see Comment; created by Nommo to house the Homo Magi)
- Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama (explorers influenced by Nommo; briefly in flashback)
- Cagliostro (Joseph Balsamo; alchemist and freemason; influenced the American and French Revolutions; briefly in flashback)
- Leonardo da Vinci (Nommo's best agent; briefly in flashback)
- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin (influenced by Cagliostro and Nommo; see Comment; briefly in flashback)
- Doctor Occult (cameo in flashback)
- Sargon the Sorcerer (cameo in flashback)
Comment(s):
- This chapter tells the origins of Doctor Mist and his influence on mystical events of the last 7000 years. It is possible that the city he founds for the Homo Magi is the same city as the Secret City of The Seven.
- Cagliostro's and Nommo's influences on the founders of the United States may have been seen through their creation of the American Talisman, the artifact that created Uncle Sam.
- Sargon's Ruby of Life was one of the jewels created by Nommo to mystically power normal Homo Sapiens.
Credits:
| Plot | Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas |
| Story | Robert Loren Fleming |
| Pencils | Grant Miehm (layouts), Fred Fredericks (finishes) |
| Inks | Fred Fredericks |
| Lettering | Duncan Andrews |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Associate editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatara the Magician (Giovanni "John" Zatara; first appearance in flashbacks preceding Golden Age Secret Files #1/6; a stage magician who has real magical abilities)
Other Character(s):
- Luigi Zatara (in flashback; a retired stage magician and Zatara's grandfather; last in Beware the Creeper Vol. 2 #3)
- Mr. and Mrs. Zatara (first appearance; John Zatara's parents)
- Doctor Mist (in 1938 prior to the beginning of Zatara's career)
Comment(s):
- This story shows Zatara's first adventure occurring in early September, 1938 but should be in March.
- Flashbacks retell DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 with new details.
Credits:
| Plot | Ehrich Weiss |
| Story | Robert Loren Fleming |
| Pencils | Tom Artis |
| Inks | P. Craig Russell |
| Lettering | Gaspar Saladino |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | Mark Waid |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatanna (early history shown in flashbacks; next in Brave and the Bold Vol. 3 #33)
Villain(s):
- Felix Faust (next in Books of Magic Vol. 1 #2)
- King Inferno (in flashback to 1951 in battle with Zatara)
- Allura (an agent of Doctor Mist; in flashback to Justice League of America #51)
- Adam (a cult leader; in flashback; revealed to be an agent of Wotan)
- Wotan (in flashback behind the scenes)
Other Character(s):
- Doctor Mist (origins also retold in flashbacks; next in Justice League Quarterly #6/4)
- Global Guardians (in flashback)
- Zatara the Magician (in flashbacks; dies)
- Sindella (first appearance; in flashback to Justice League of America #163- #165; Zatara's wife and Zatanna's mother; dies)
- Justice League of America (in flashback to Justice League of America #51)
- John Constantine (in flashback to an untold adventure during "Zatanna's Quest")