Secret Origins Vol 2 8

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Shadow Lass: "The Shadow of the Past"
Cover
Secret Origins Vol 2 #8
November, 1986
Executive Editor	Dick Giordano
Cover Artists	Steve Lightle
Shadow Lass: "The Shadow of the Past"
Writers	Paul Levitz
Pencilers	Tom Mandrake
Inkers	Tom Mandrake
Colorists	Carl Gafford
Letterers	John Workman
Editors	Robert Greenberger
Doll Man
Writers	Roy Thomas
Pencilers	Murphy Anderson
Inkers	Murphy Anderson
Colorists	Carl Gafford
Letterers	David Cody Weiss
Editors	Robert Greenberger
Previous Issue	Secret Origins Vol 2 # 7
Next Issue	Secret Origins Vol 2 # 9

Secret Origins (Volume 2) #8 is an issue of the series Secret Origins (Volume 2) with a cover date of November, 1986.

Appearing in Shadow Lass: "The Shadow of the Past"

Featured Characters:

• Shadow Lass (Tasmia Mallor) (Origin)

Supporting Characters:

• Grev Mallor
• Legion of Super-Heroes
  • Brainiac 5
  • Cosmic Boy
  • Karate Kid
  • Mon-El
  • Superboy

Antagonists:

• Fatal Five
  • Emerald Empress
  • Mano
  • The Persuader
  • Tharok
  • Validus

Other Characters:

• Anton Relnic
• Talokites
  • Lord Mayor
  • Sarven Mallor (Deceased) (In a vision)

Locations:

• Pre-Zero Hour 30th Century
  • Earth
    • Legion Academy (Mentioned only)
  • Talok VIII (Flashback and main story)

Items:

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Vehicles:

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Appearing in "Doll Man"

Featured Characters:

• Doll Man (Darrel Dane) (First appearance) (Origin)

Supporting Characters:

• Martha Roberts (First appearance)
• Professor Roberts (First appearance)

Antagonists:

• Falco (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Harry the rat (Single appearance; dies)
• Shere Khan (cat) (First appearance)
• Baby New Year (Mentioned only)
• Leprechauns (Mentioned only)
• Raggedy Ann (Mentioned only)
• Tarzan (Mentioned only)
• Tiny Tim (Mentioned only)
• Tom Thumb (Mentioned only)

Locations:

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Items:

• Shrinking formula

Vehicles:

• Doll Plane (Cameo)

Notes

• Superboy appears in the Shadow Lass origin story, who is revealed to be a creation of the Time Trapper through his Pocket Universe.
• The Doll Man origin story is a retcon of Feature Comics #27. Among the changes:
  • Darrel Dane was shown to have tested his formula on animals beforehand, and Professor Roberts has a cat named Shere Khan as a pet. None of the animals were present in the original.
  • Darrel punched out Professor Roberts, instead of throwing a syringe at him in the original.
  • Martha Roberts created the Doll Man costume for Darrel before going to see Falco about the blackmail (in the original story, Darrel didn't have a costume yet)
  • A reason is given for why Martha was being blackmailed, she was briefly involved with one of her professors in college, and Falco had somehow intercepted a letter Martha wrote. In the original, it was never mentioned what the blackmail was.

Trivia

• Darrel Dane makes a humorous comment when he swallows the shrinking formula about discovering a new taste for Coca-Cola -- which was what took place a year or so before this story was published when the Coca-Cola Company switched the product's original formula for that which was then called "New Coke."
• Shere Khan is likely named after the tiger from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Secret Origins series
• Images from Secret Origins Vol 2 8

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