Comic Title: Secret Origins #37
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: December 20, 1988 Shipping Date December 20, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Direct Market Date December 22, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75, #76

Copyright Date December 20, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "All Those Light Years Ago"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Doctor Light (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Craig Boldman
Penciller: Mike Parobeck
Inker: Ken H. Branch
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Light (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)

Villain(s)

• Mr. B (a corporate executive; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Mr. B's bodyguard (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lester (Doctor Light's neighbor; no further appearances)
• Jacob Finlay (Doctor Light's former partner; dies in flashback; next appearance in Suicide Squad #36)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Doctor Light (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Flash #12)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Flash (on a television news report)
• Captain Cold (on a television news report)
• Batman (on a television news report)
• Justice League (in flashback)
• Black Canary (in flashback)
• Green Arrow (in flashback)
• Green Lantern (in flashback)
• Hawkman (in flashback)
• Martian Manhunter (in flashback)
• Superman (in flashback)

Comments:
Arthur is called Doctor Smith throughout this story, but the name on his door is Arthur Light. This brings into question whether his real last name is Smith or Light.

This story shows that Jacob Finlay was the inventor of the Doctor Light costume. After his death, Jacob appears as a phantom. However, this phantom is only a figment of Doctor's Light's imagination.

Synopsis:
When the power in his apartment goes out, Doctor Light is forced to confront a ghost from his past. He recalls being a scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs with his partner Jacob Finlay. Arthur was having financial troubles, so he sold scientific secrets to Mr. B. His partner, fascinated by the newly formed Justice League, created a costume and became the hero Doctor Light. Jacob, as Doctor Light, catches Arthur in the act of stealing, but lets him go.

Arthur later returns to the lab and witnesses his partner's death in an accident. He is then haunted by Jacob's ghost. Driven mad, Arthur finds Jacob's costume and uses its light-based powers to drive away the ghost. He then becomes a super-villain.

Back in the present, Doctor Light restores the power and drives the ghost away. His neighbor has been listening at the door. He hears Doctor Light talking to himself proving that Jacob's ghost only exists in Arthur's mind.