Comic Title: Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1990
On Sale Date: January 16, 1990 Shipping Date January 16, 1990
Source: Previews, #11

Shipping Date January 18, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #13

Direct Market Date January 18, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #132, #133

Cover Price: $4.95
Page Count: 144
Editor: Mark Waid

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Martian Manhunter"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Mark Verheiden
Artist: Ken Steacy

Reprinted From:
Secret Origins #35 (1988)

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.