Secret Origins Vol 2 25

"The Dreams of Youth": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

"The Dreams of Youth"
Cover
Secret Origins Vol 2 #25
April, 1988
Executive Editor	Dick Giordano
Cover Artists	Curt Swan Murphy Anderson
The Dreams of Youth
Writers	Paul Levitz
Pencilers	Rick Stasi
Inkers	Dick Giordano
Letterers	John Costanza
Editors	Mark Waid
What a way to start the new year 1940!
Writers	Roy Thomas
Pencilers	Mike Clark
Inkers	Bob Downs
Letterers	Jean Simek
Editors	Roy Thomas
Previous Issue	Secret Origins Vol 2 # 24
Next Issue	Secret Origins Vol 2 # 26

Secret Origins (Volume 2) #25 is an issue of the series Secret Origins (Volume 2) with a cover date of April, 1988.

Appearing in "The Dreams of Youth"

Featured Characters:

• Legion of Super-Heroes (Flashback only)

• Superboy
• Blok
• Bouncing Boy
• Brainiac 5
• Chameleon Boy
• Colossal Boy
• Cosmic Boy
• Dawnstar
• Dream Girl
• Triplicate Girl
• Element Lad
• Invisible Kid (Jacques Foccart)
• Lightning Lad
• Light Lass
• Mon-El
• Phantom Girl
• Polar Boy
• Quislet
• Sensor Girl
• Saturn Girl
• Shadow Lass
• Shrinking Violet
• Star Boy
• Sun Boy
• Tellus
• Timber Wolf
• Ultra-Boy
• White Witch
• Wildfire

Supporting Characters:

• R.J. Brande (Flashback and main story)
• Councillor Hathoir (On a TV or computer screen)

Villains:

• Doyle Brande
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Other Characters:

• Marella Tao (On a TV or computer screen)
• Marla Latham (Flashback only)
• Circadia Senius (Flashback only)
• Lieutenant Zendak (Flashback only)

Locations:

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Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "What a way to start the new year 1940!"

Origin based on the original story from All-American Comics #19.

Calvin University sophomore Al Pratt, age probably 19, meets homeless former boxing champion and fight trainer Joe Morgan, and lets him live in his recently-inherited country cabin, where Morgan begins training Pratt in boxing and weightlifting. He is unaware that Morgan, suffering from multiple-personality disorder, also trained Jim Harper (the Guardian) and Ted Grant (Wildcat) under different names. After months of intensive training, 5' 2" college student Al Pratt rescues his kidnap-prone not-girlfriend Mary James from some gangsters, and then again from some ballroom robbers, and then adopts the secret identity of "The Atom."

Appearing in "What a way to start the new year 1940!"

Featured Characters:

• The Atom (Al Pratt)

Supporting Characters:

• Joe Morgan
• Mary James

Villains:

• Kidnappers
• The Huntress (Flashback only)

Other Characters:

• Justice Society of America (Flashback only)

• Flash
• Green Lantern
• Wildcat

• The Guardian (Flashback only)
• Cyclotron (Flashback only)
• Nuklon (Flashback only)
• Biff Bronston

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Notes

• The Atom:
  • In Earth-Two continuity, this origin story takes place circa January 1941.
  • In New Earth continuity, this origin story takes place circa June 1939.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Secret Origins series
• Images from Secret Origins Vol 2 25

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