Comic Title: Secret Origins #25
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1988
On Sale Date: December 15, 1987 Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #47

Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131
Misnumbered #24

Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpak December 1987

Newsstand Date January 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131
Misnumbered #24

Copyright Date December 15, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mark Waid

Title: "The Dreams of Youth"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Levitz
Penciller: Rick Stasi
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (origin retold in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)
• Cosmic Boy (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)
• Lightning Lad (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)
• Saturn Girl (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• R. J. Brande (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1; no further appearances)
• Marla Latham (in flashback; first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)

Villain(s)

• Two assassins (in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Marella Tao (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #37; next appearance in Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #1)
• A group of alien children (no further appearances)
• Rigmon (R.J.'s assistant; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Councillor Hathoir (a politician; in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• R. J. Brande (during the Legion's founding; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #8)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Duo Damsel (in flashback)
• Phantom Girl (in flashback)
• Brainiac 5 (in flashback)
• Chameleon Boy (in flashback)
• Kimball Zendak (in flashback; first name revealed)
• Circadia Senius (in flashback)
• Dawnstar (on a holo-newscast)
• Element Lad (on a holo-newscast)
• Mon-El (on a holo-newscast)
• Sensor Girl (on a holo-newscast)
• Sun Boy (on a holo-newscast)
• Ultra Boy (on a holo-newscast)
• Wildfire (on a holo-newscast)
• Star Boy (in a Legion portrait)
• White Witch (in a Legion portrait)
• Tellus (in a Legion portrait)
• Dream Girl (in a Legion portrait)
• Lightning Lass (in a Legion portrait)
• Colossal Boy (in a Legion portrait)
• Shrinking Violet (in a Legion portrait)
• Timber Wolf (in a Legion portrait)
• Shadow Lass (in a Legion portrait)
• Blok (in a Legion portrait)
• Bouncing Boy (in a Legion portrait)
• Invisible Kid (in a Legion portrait)
• Polar Boy (in a Legion portrait)
• Quislet (in a Legion portrait)
• Proty II (in a Legion portrait)

Synopsis:
While waiting for a shuttle in a spaceport R.J. Brande sees a group of children playing Legionnaires. He tells the children the story of the Legion's origin. Years earlier while taking a shuttle to Earth, R.J. met three youths from separate worlds, Imra Ardeen, Rokk Krinn, and Garth Ranzz. While disembarking from the shuttle assassins were detected by Imra. Rokk and Garth then stopped the killers from targeting Brande. The following day, R.J. convinced the three to stay together and form the Legion of Super-Heroes.