Comic Title: Secret Origins #16
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1987
On Sale Date: April 7, 1987 Newsstand Date April 7, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #38

Newsstand Date April 9, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #113

Shipping Date March 17, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #113

Copyright Date March 17, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date April 9, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Shipping Date March 17, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Exiles"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Warlord (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist/Letterer: Adam Kubert
Colorist: Jerry Serpe

Feature Character(s)

• Warlord (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Warlord #112)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tara (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Warlord #113)

Villain(s)

• Danny Maddox (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Warlord #127)
• Several Soviet spies (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Rachel Morgan (Travis Morgan's first wife; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Chuck (Rachel's brother; no further appearances)
• Various Russian and American soldiers (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story depicts the events which led to Travis Morgan finding Skartaris.

Synopsis:
Danny Maddox reflects on the events which led to his incarceration in a Soviet labor camp. As a school bully, he tormented other children until Travis Morgan beat him. After joining the Army during the Vietnam War, Danny set up a black market smuggling operation. In addition to stealing supplies, Danny conspired with the Russians by selling secrets. Travis Morgan once again threatened to end his operations when Morgan discovers the thefts.

Danny contacted his Soviet friends and arranged for Morgan to be sent on a spy mission that would end with him shot down over Russian airspace. However, Morgan evades the Soviet missiles. Maddox was unable to shoot Morgan down, and was sent to a Soviet labor camp for failing. Morgan's plane was damaged. He was forced to make a trip over the North Pole which resulted in his discovery of Skartaris.