Comic Title: Secret Origins #30
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: May 24, 1988 Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Copyright Date May 24, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Newsstand Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 18, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mark Waid

Title: "The Home Stretch"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Elongated Man (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Gerard Jones
Penciller: Ty Templeton
Inker: Grant Miehm
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #442; next appearance in Power of the Atom #5)

Guest Star(s)

• Wally West (last appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2; next appearance in Flash Annual #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Justice League of America #257; next appearance in Power of the Atom #5)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Flash (Barry Allen; in flashback; last appearance in Secret Origins Annual #2; next appearance in Suicide Squad #44)

Other Character(s)

• Ken Dibny (Ralph's brother; no further appearances)
• Mrs. Krajiek (a piano teacher; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Residents of Waymore Nebraska (Jim and Jake named; no further appearances)
• Several contortionists (in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Elongated Man (origin; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Justice League of America #257)
• Sue Dibny (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Justice League of America #257)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Captain Boomerang (in flashback)
• Justice League (in flashback)
• Aquaman (in flashback)
• Batman (in flashback)
• Black Canary (in flashback)
• Green Arrow (in flashback)
• Green Lantern (in flashback)

Synopsis:
For his 30th birthday, Ralph Dibny returns to his hometown, Waymore, Nebraska. The community is very rural and their mayor is Ralph's brother Ken who was a former football star. Wally West also stops in to visit with Ralph, who feels that he is being ignored by his family and friends. He slips away from the party for a time and shares his origin story with Wally. Sue Dibny and Ken finally convince Ralph that he has been acting weird and should return to the party. Ralph is surprised to learn that the town is proud of him, but they have trouble relating to him because he is weird. Ralph spends them rest of the party trying to act normal and assimilate to the community.