Comic Title: Secret Origins #35
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: October 18, 1988 Shipping Date October 18, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #9

Shipping Date October 20, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #150

Copyright Date October 18, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: (No Title)
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Martian Manhunter (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mark Verheiden
Artist: Ken Steacy

Reprinted In:
Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes TPB (1990)

Feature Character(s)

• Martian Manhunter (last appearance in Secret Origins #35; next appearance in Justice League International #24)

Villain(s)

• A gang of kidnappers (in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed police officer (also appears in flashback; no further appearances)
• Several cops (Bill Ralston and Duncan named; in flashback; no further appearances)
• A baby girl (in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Martian Manhunter (in flashback to the 1950s; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins #32)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Dr. Saul Erdel (in flashback)

Comments:
J'onn J'onzz is shown with the ability to alter a person's memories in this story.

Synopsis:
A retired police officer awakens with the realization that some of his forgotten memories have been restored. Thirty years ago, he was a beat cop and friend of detective John Jones. He recalls that John was a one man police force in those days. The cop recalls a particular case involving the kidnapping of a the mayor's daughter. During the case John found the kidnappers, but in finding them he was exposed as a martian to his fellow cop. Following the case, John altered the cop's memory to forget his secret.

Now decades later, J'onn is responsible for restoring the cop's real memory. The two meet again at last.