Secret Origins (v3)# 45

October.1989 ....................$1.50

Cover Credits: Murphy Anderson ( pencils/inks )

Title: Citizen Jan .......... 24 pgs.

Credits: Martin Pasko ( writer, based on material by Howard Chaykin );Grant Miehm ( layouts ); Terry Beatty( finishes/inks ), Janice Chiang( letters ); Helen Vesik ( colors ); Mark Waid ( editor )

Feature Characters: Blackhawk ( last Blackhawk: Blood and Iron # 3, next ... )

Guest Stars: The Blackhawk Squadron (Chop-Chop, Olaf, Chuck, Henricksen, Andre all last Blackhawk: Blood and Iron #3, next ... )

Villains: Reba MacMahon ( last Blackhawk: Blood and Iron #3, dies )

Other Characters: Janos' father, mother ( both in flashback, both die ), Josek and "Connie" ( Janos' brother and sister, both die in flashback, also in Military Comics #1/1 ), Gus Markonis and Sid ( a newspapter reporter and his editor for the Dispatch, Gus dies, first and only appearance for both ), Stanislaus "Stan" Drozdowski and Kazimierc "Zeg" Zegoda-Januszajtis ( fellow Polish Blackhawks, Zeg's and Stan's deaths are mentioned in flashback ), Ian Holcomb-Baker and Boris Zinoviev ( two other Blackhawks, deaths mentioned in flashback ), Howard Leslie ( an actor and a Nazi spy, first and only appearance to date ), Hank and Kermit Geisendorf ( a reporter for the Dispatch and his twin brother, both Nazi spies, first and only appearance for both ), William Randolph Hearst ( first and only appearance )

Chronological Commments: Janos "Blackhawk" Prohaska's birthdate is given as October 31, 1912; his brother is born 1919, his sister in 1923. His mother and father die in 1929 and his brother and sister are killed in 1939.
This story takes place directly after Blackhawk:Blood and Iron #3 and ends on October 31, 1943 ( Janos' 31st birthday )

Comments: This story refers to and expands on materials from Military Comics #1/1.

Title: Folk Tales ......... 14 pgs.

Credits: Gerald Jones( writer ); Mike Parobeck ( pencils ); John Nyberg ( inks ); Tim Harkins ( letters ); Eric Kachelhoffer ( colors ); Mark Waid ( editor ), Brian Augustyn ( consuting editor )

Feature Characters: El Diablo ( Rafael Sandoval, first appearance, not to be confused with the Western character, appears next El Diablo #1 )

Guest Stars:

Villains:

Other Characters: Rafael Sandoval's father ( dies in flashback ), Father Guzman (Rafael's mentor, in flashback only ), Mayor Thomas Longstreet ( of Dos Rios, TX, in flashback only )

Chronological Comments: Rafael Sandoval has been out of law school for several years, making him in his mid twenties when he begins as El Diablo.

Comments: This story is a preview of the El Diablo series.

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