Secret Origins (1973 DC 1st Series) #6

Cover by Nick Cardy. "The Origin of the Legion!," script by E. Nelson Bridwell, art by Pete Costanza

The origin of the Legion of Super-Heroes is told; Three youths with fantastic powers save billionaire R. J. Brande, who bankrolls them in an organization meant to emulate Superboy and Supergirl: the Legion of Super-Heroes; reprinted from Superboy #147. "The Origin of Blackhawk," script by Will Eisner and Bob Powell, art by Charles Cuidera; Warsaw, Poland 1939. The Nazis are massing to rout the Polish Air Force, the only obstacle to their victory over Poland, and are being led by the Nazi commander, Captain von Tepp; However, in his attack, the brother and sister of a lone survivor are killed, and this survivor, later to become The Blackhawk, vows to hunt down von Tepp and make him pay personally for their deaths; reprinted from Military Comics #1. One-page text feature on the origins of the Legion and Blackhawk.

36 pgs., full color. $0.20. Cover price $0.20.