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 Unofficial Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant Index

Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant 1

SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-VILLAINS 80-PAGE GIANT #1

Cover Date: December 1999
Cover Price: $4.95

TITLE INDEX

Cover Credits:
Art: Dave Gibbons (Signed)
Colors: Richard Horie, Tanya Horie


Story: "Random Choice" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRon Marz
PencilsScott Kolins
InksJon Holdredge
ColorsBuzz Setzer
LetteringKurt Hathaway
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Sinestro (earliest chronological appearance)

Guest Star(s):

Spectre (Hal Jordan)
Ganthet (also in flashback)

Supporting Character(s):

Prohl Gosgotha (Green Lantern of Sector 1417; first appearance; dies)

Villain(s):

A Weaponer of Qward (dies)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Green Lantern Corps (all seen in flashback only)
Arkkis Chummuck
Hal Jordan
Kilowog

Comment(s):

This story is Sinestro's origin as a Green Lantern as told by Ganthet.


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Second Story: "The Rise of Tartarus" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDevin K. Grayson
PencilsDrew Johnson
InksJosé Marzan, Jr.
ColorsJason Wright
LetteringComicraft
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Tartarus (first appearance; team formed by Vandal Savage; next in Titans #8)
Vandal Savage
Cheshire (last in flashback in Birds of Prey #28; next in Titans #8)
Gorilla Grodd
Lady Vic (last in Batman Annual #23; next in Titans #7)
Red Panzer III
Siren

Supporting Character(s):

Omen

Comment(s):

This story is interspersed in two-page "Acts" throughout this issue.


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Third Story: "Echoes Past" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGreg Rucka
ArtRick Burchett
ColorsPamela Rambo
LetteringKen Bruzenak
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Echo (also in flashback)

Supporting Character(s):

Sir Donald (dies)
Fawn (dies)
Ms. Lindsey (dies)

Other Character(s):

G.R.U. trainees (in flashback)
Muhjahidin (fourteen; in flasback; all die)
Turing program candidates (four; in flashback; all die)
Russian military officials (in flashback)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Batman


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Fourth Story: "Dreams in Smoke" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoe Kelly
ArtJackson "Butch" Guice
ColorsGlenn Whitmore
LetteringKen Lopez
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Encantadora (Lourdes Lucero; first appearance; also in flashbacks; next in Action Comics #760)

Villain(s):

Blockbuster II (last in Batman Annual #23; next in Nightwing Vol. 2 #39)


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Fifth Story: "Goodness and Mercy" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWalter Simonson
PencilsJon Bogdanove
InksBill Reinhold
ColorsSherilyn Van Valkenburgh
LetteringJohn Workman
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Granny Goodness

Supporting Character(s):

Mercy (a hound, first appearance; dies)
Darkseid
Desaad

Other Character(s):

Officer candidates (Firewort, Snert, Thurse, Viperfang named)
Hunger Dogs


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Sixth Story: "Sorrow Ever More" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDavid S. Goyer, James Robinson
PencilsPhil Winslade
InksMike Perkins
ColorsJohn Kalisz
LetteringPat Prentice
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Sorrow (last in flashback in JSA #18; next in JSA #9)

Other Character(s):

Cameron Mahkent (last in JLA #34; next in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #0; also in flashbacks to birth and early youth preceding appearance in Infinity, Inc. #34)

Comment(s):

Index in progress


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Seventh Story: "Original Sin" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryTom Peyer
ArtCully Hamner
ColorsLee Loughridge
LetteringComicraft
EditingMike McAvennie

Feature Character(s):

Amazo (last in Hourman #7; next in Superman Y2K #1)

Comment(s):


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