Comic Title: Secret Origins #45
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1989
On Sale Date: August 22, 1989 Shipping Date August 22, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 22, 1989
Source: Previews, #6

Shipping Date August 24, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #8

Direct Market Date August 24, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110, #112, #113

Direct Market Date August 24, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110, Page 3

Copyright Date August 22, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Citizen Jan"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Blackhawk (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Martin Pasko
Writer: Howard Victor Chaykin
Penciller: Grant Miehm
Inker: Terry Beatty
Letterer: Janice Chiang
Colorist: Helen Vesik

Reprinted In:
Blackhawk:Blood and Iron HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Blackhawk (last appearance in Blackhawk #3; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #601)

Supporting Character(s)

• The Blackhawks (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #616)
• Andre (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)
• Chuck (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #608)
• Olaf (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617)
• Hendrickson (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Blackhawk Annual #1)
• Weng Chan (last appearance in Blackhawk #2; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #616)
• Stanislaw Drosdowski (in flashback to his first meeting with Blackhawk; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Blackhawk #2)
• Kazimierc Zegota-Januszajtis (in flashback; an early member of the Blackhawks; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Reba MacMahon (dies in this story; uses the alias Reba Wonderly in this story; last appearance in Blackhawk #3; no further appearances)
• Kermit Geisendorf (a Nazi spy; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Blackhawk #4)
• Howard Leslie (a spy; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Blackhawk's parents (both die in flashback; no further appearances)
• Jozek Prohaska (in flashback; earlist chronological appearance; next appearance in Blackhawk #1)
• Blackhawk's sister (dies in flashback; no further appearances)
• Wladyslaw and Kazimiera Prohaska (Blackhawk's aunt and uncle; no further appearances)
• Gus Markonis and Sid (a reporter and his editor; Gus dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Senator Christianson (no further appearances)
• William Randolph Hearst (a newspaper mogul; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Janos Prohaska (as a boy; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #45)
• Janos Prohaska (as a teen; last appearance in Secret Origins #45; next appearance in Blackhawk #1)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt (in a newsreel)
• Josef Stalin (in flashback)
• Boris Zinoviev (mentioned as a deceased member of the Blackhawks)
• Ian Holcomb-Baker (mentioned as a deceased member of the Blackhawks)

Comments:
Blackhawk's birth date is given as October 31, 1912.

This story takes place on October 31st, shortly after the events in Blackhawk #3. Given that World War II has not concluded, the year can be inferred as 1944.

Synopsis:
Shortly after the death of Senator Hightower, Blackhawk is missing and presumed dead. Reba MacMahon has documents which she attempts to sell to the press and another senator which detail Blackhawk's history and his ties to the communist party. A German spy, Geisendorf, is trailing MacMahon and steals the documents which contain hidden details about a new military weapon. Blackhawk, who is still alive, stops Geisendorf at the home of Randolph Hearst during a Halloween party. The spy had been attempting to get the final document back from one of Hearst's reporters Gus Markonis.