Secret Origins (v3) #21

December.1987 ....................$1.25

Cover Credits: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez ( pencils/inks )

Title: Requiem for a Gunfighter .......... 19 pgs.

Credits: Michael Fleisher ( writer/"consulting historian" ); Grey Morrow ( pencils/inks ); Agustin Mas( letters ); Bob Le Rose ( colors ); Robert Greenberger ( editor )

Feature Characters: Jonah Hex ( in flashbacks only, his "corpse" is last seen in Jonah Hex Spectacular )

Guest Stars:

Villains: Mr. Lewellyn and his thugs ( a collector of Old West memorobila , first and only appearance for all )

Other Characters: Nadine and Mr. Moskowitz ( first and only appearance for both, members of a film crew ), Prof. Lawrence ( an authority on Jonah Hex and the Old West, first and only appearance to date ), Tall Bird Hex ( Jonah Hex's common law wife, last..., no further appearances to date ), Woodson Hex and his wife ( earliest chronological appearance? both next Jonah Hex #.. ), Mad Dog Lucas McGill ( the first man Jonah Hex was ever paid a bounty for, dies in flashback, first and only appearance )

Chronological Commments:

Comments: It is unknown whether Hex's body was cremated after this story.

Title: The Secret Origin of The Black Condor ......... 19 pgs.

Credits: Roy Thomas( writer/adaptor/editor ); Murphy Anderson ( pencils/inks ); Jean Simek ( letters ); Carl Gafford ( colors ); Greg Weisman ( co-editor )

Feature Characters: The Black Condor ( first appearance, story adapted from Crack Comics #1 and 13 )

Guest Stars:

Villains: Gawi Khan and his bandits ( bandits in the lower Himalayas, first and only appearance to date ), Giant Eagles ( first and only appearance to date ), Jasper Crow ( a crooked political advisor, first appearance, next Crack Comics #... )

Other Characters: Major Richard and Anne Grey ( Richard Grey Jr.'s archaeologist parents, both die ), a flock of giant "Himialyian Condors" ( first and only appearance to date )Father Pierre ( an old hermit, teaches Black Condor about human civilization, dies ), US Senator Thomas Wright ( dies, identity taken by Richard Grey/Black Condor ), Dr. Henry Foster ( a friend of Thomas Wright, first appearance, next Crack Comics #.. )

Chronological Comments: This story takes place in two parts, first circa 1919/1920, and early 1940.

Comments:

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