Comic Title: Secret Origins #50
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1990
On Sale Date: June 19, 1990 Shipping Date June 19, 1990
Source: Previews, #16

Shipping Date June 19, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #180

Copyright Date June 19, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Shipping Date June 21, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #18

Direct Market Date June 21, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #150, 153, #155

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $3.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Michael Eury

Title: "The Startling Secret of the Space Museum"
Pages: 9

Feature(s):
Space Museum

Writer: Gerard Jones
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: George Perez
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Feature Character(s)

• Howard Parker (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Tommy Parker (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Three Peganans (in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Several space marines (in flashback; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story establishes the origin of the Space Museum and its founder Howard Parker. Several of the items mentioned or used in this story were featured in Earth-1 stories. These include:

• The contact lenses from Strange Adventures #104
• The sound-camera jewel from Strange Adventures #106
• The mind blaster from Strange Adventures #118
• The toy soldier from Strange Adventures #130

Synopsis:
Howard and Tommy Parker visit the Space Museum. Howard relates the story surrounding the display of a space marine footlocker. Twenty-five years earlier, the site of the Space Museum was being used as a warehouse for military surplus. A young corporal was fascinated with the objects found within and stored them in a footlocker. When Peganan aliens entered the warehouse in search of a legendary mind blaster, the young corporal helped to defeat them with the help of some of the objects. The building was destroyed, but the corporal helped to establish the Space Museum using the objects he had protected in the footlocker. Tommy then learns that the young corporal was his father Howard.