Comic Title: New Guardians #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1988
On Sale Date: September 6, 1988 Shipping Date September 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Copyright Date September 13, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "Open Secrets"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
New Guardians

Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Joe Staton
Inker: Mark Farmer
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• New Guardians (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Extrano (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Floro (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Gloss (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Harbinger (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Jet (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Ram (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Kilowog (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #602; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Arisia (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #620; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Tom Kalmaku (last appearance in Secret Origins #36; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Keith and Kari Kalmaku (name mispelled Kerry; last appearance in Secret Origins #36; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Terga Kalmaku (name mispelled Tegra; last appearance in Secret Origins #36; next appearance in New Guardians #8)
• Betty Clawman (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #7)

Villain(s)

• A group of Japanese investors (next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Janwillem Kroef (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #8)
• Piet Broem (last appearance in New Guardians #3; next appearance in New Guardians #8)
• Soltron (a robot; destroyed in this story; next appearance in New Guardians #5)
• Dr. Argolia (no further appearances)
• Nurse Varlet (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Burke (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
After the destruction of their home, the New Guardians head for the Green Lantern Citadel. Kilowog and Arisia have been living there. They invite the team to stay. Kilowog finds purpose in his life for the first time since the loss of the Corps. He performs tests of the team's powers and seeks a cure for the HIV virus which has afflicted three of the New Guardians.

Before the New Guardians arrived, a group of Japanese businessmen offered to buy Kilowog's advanced scientific equipment. He refused their offer, so they send a robot to infiltrate the Citadel. The New Guardians destroy the robot. They take the demolished pieces inside for examination, not realizing that the pieces are still active.

Meanwhile, Terga Kalmaku learns that she is pregnant. Piet Broem has been spying on her and arranges her kidnapping.