Comic Title: Secret Origins Annual #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1987
On Sale Date: May 26, 1987 Newsstand Date May 26, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Newsstand Date May 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #117

Shipping Date May 5, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #117

Newsstand Date May 28, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

Copyright Date May 5, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date May 5, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

Cover Price: $2.00
Page Count: 64
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "The Secret Origin of Captain Comet"
Pages: 20

Feature(s):
Captain Comet (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Penciller: Ron Harris
Inker: Bruce D. Patterson
Letterer: Jean Simek (Izzo)
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Comet (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Emery Zackro (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Harun (an alien of the Astur race; no further appearances)
• A gang of hoodlums (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• John and Martha Blake (in flashback; no further appearances)
• Betty (a college student; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story takes place in 1951 shortly after the JSA has been disbanded.

Synopsis:
Adam Blake was born on a night when a comet passed through the night sky. His parents soon discovered that Adam possessed amazing powers and intellect. However, Adam's abilities caused him to be reclusive. After discovering that he possessed telekinesis as a young adult, Adam approached Emery Zackro to discover the extent of his powers.

Zackro tested Adam then gave him a purpose in helping to perfect a machine that could create gold from sunlight. After Adam fixed the machine, crooks tried to steal it. Adam used his powers to defeat them, even stopping a bullet with his mind.

A short time later the Earth is menaced by giant spinning tops which are destroying the atmosphere. Even an atomic blast is unable to stop the devices. Adam traces the tops into space. He modifies a test plane into a spaceship and discovers an alien ship behind the moon.

Then alien ship is controlling the tops. Adam boards the ship and is confronted by Harun, who intends to make Earth the new home for his people. Adam points out that the aliens in suspended animation are all dead anyway. Harun then throws himself out the airlock to his death. Captain Comet then returns to Earth as a hero.