Comic Title: DC Through the '80s:The Experiments HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2021
On Sale Date: June 22, 2021 Direct Market Date June 23, 2021
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Direct Market Date May 25, 2021
Source: DC Connect, #8

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 504
Editor: Paul Levitz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "We Thought Him Up"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Ambush Bug (Post-Crisis)

Plotter/Penciller: Keith Giffen
Scripter: Robert Loren Fleming
Inker: Robert Lewis
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #48 (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Ambush Bug (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Ambush Bug Nothing Special #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Cheeks (reincarnated as the director of the N.B.O.; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Several N.B.O. agents (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Vril Dox (last appearance in L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #13; next appearance in L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #14)
• Lords of Order (last appearance in Justice League Europe #8; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)

Other Character(s)

• Freddie (Dox's agent; no further appearances)
• A nurse at the Home for Forgotten Cartoon Characters (no further appearances)
• Several employees of Heaven (no further appearances)
• Jeff and his associate (gangsters; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ambush Bug is approached by agents from the National Bureau of Origins. They demand that he reveal his origin. To motivate him, one of the agents shows the Bug a picture of Cheeks, who is lost. Ambush Bug begins providing the N.B.O. with origins stolen from other characters while he searches for Cheeks. As part of the search he gets a Lord of Order to kill him and send him to Heaven. The Bug is sent back to Earth in a new identity which gets the N.B.O. to back off. The Bug does not find Cheeks who is acting as the N.B.O. director.