Comic Title: Secret Origins #36
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1989
On Sale Date: November 22, 1988 Shipping Date November 22, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #10

Direct Market Date November 24, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #72

Shipping Date November 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #152

Copyright Date November 22, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Pavane"
Pages: 14

Writer: Neil Gaiman
Artist: Mark Buckingham
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Nansi Hoolahan

Reprinted In:
Batman:Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?:The Deluxe Edition HC (2009)
Batman:Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? TPB (2010)
Batman Arkham:Poison Ivy TPB (2016)
DC Universe by Neil Gaiman:The Deluxe Edition HC (2016)
DC Universe by Neil Gaiman TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Poison Ivy (full name Pamela Lillian Isley revealed; last appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #4; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)

Other Character(s)

• Stuart (a recruiter for Task Force X; no further appearances)
• Paula Goldblum (a prison guard; no further appearances)
• Several prison guards (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jason Woodrue (in flashback)
• Batman (in flashback)
• Robin (in flashback)
• Mr. and Mrs. Isley (Poison Ivy's parents; in flashback)

Comments:
This story reveals that it was Jason Woodrue who experimented on Pamela Isley not the frenchman Legrand.

Synopsis:
A recruiter for Task Force X named Stuart poses as a prison inspector. He interviews Poison Ivy and becomes enchanted by her. He has a brief relationship with one of the female prison guards which ends when his thoughts of Ivy cause him to call out her name in bed. Eventually, Stuart takes Ivy into the prison yard to talk. She touches and poisons him, then uses the plants to ensnare him. The guards stop her, but Stuart is humiliated. He leaves the prison with Ivy still in his thoughts. He recommends that she be returned to Arkham Asylum.