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Secret Origins, Issue #40

Publisher: DC

Series Title: Secret Origins

Issue: #40


Publish Date: May 1989
type: cover
Title: 3 Apes 3
Genre: superhero
Script: Mark Waid
Pencils: Bill Wray
Inks: Bill Wray
Letters: typeset
Colors: Bob LeRose
Cover Characters: Gorilla Grodd; Congorilla; Detective Chimp
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Secret Origins #40, page 9

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Artist: Carmine Infantino (Penciller)
Mike DeCarlo (Inker)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Splash Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 247
Comments: 0
Added to Site: 4/28/2021

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Member Since: April 2006

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover 3 Apes 3 Pencils: Bill Wray
Inks: Bill Wray
Letters: typeset
Colors: Bob LeRose
Gorilla Grodd; Congorilla; Detective Chimp
comic story Gorillas in Our Midst: The Secret Origin of Gorilla City Pencils: Carmine Infantino
Inks: Mike DeCarlo
Letters: Agustin Mas
Colors: Shelley Eiber
Gorilla Grodd; King Solovar; Sir Albert Wesley; Mr. Barwick; Mr. Hughes A retelling of the origin of Gorilla City, beginning with a space traveler who enhances the gorillas' intelligence and who dies by the actions of Grodd.
comic story The Legend of Congorilla Pencils: Fred Butler
Inks: Keith Wilson [as Kez Wilson]
Letters: Janice Chiang
Colors: Tatjana Wood
Congorilla; Congo Bill; Doc Kruger; Kawolo (dies); N'Solo Retells the origin of Congo Bill receiving and first using the Congorilla ring, from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #248.
comic story IF U CN RD THS Pencils: Mark Badger
Inks: Mark Badger
Letters: John Costanza
Colors: Robbie Busch
Detective Chimp; Y-Nad; K-Ram; Randolph; Gus Two aliens give a chimpanzee the power of human thought, and the chimpanzee solves a local murder mystery.
letters page Script: Mark Waid
Letters: typeset
Includes 4 explanatory articles: Secrets Behind The Goofy Cover; Secrets Behind The Origins Gorilla City; Secrets Behind The Origins Congorilla; Secrets Behind The Origins Detective Chimp.

 

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