Secret Origins #40 (1989) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	3 Apes 3	cover	1	script: Mark Waid; pencils: Bill Wray; inks: Bill Wray; colors: Bob LeRose	Bobo T. Chimpanzee, The Congorilla, Detective Chimp, Gorilla Grodd
1	Gorillas in Our Midst: The Secret Origin of Gorilla City	comic story	19	script: Cary Bates, Greg Weisman; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Mike DeCarlo; colors: Shelley Eiber; letters: Agustin Más	Gorilla Grodd
2	The Legend of Congorilla	comic story	10	script: Tom Joyner; pencils: Fred Butler; inks: Kez Wilson; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Janice Chiang	Congo Bill, The Congorilla
3	IF U CN RD THS	comic story	9	script: Andy Helfer, Rusty Wells, Rusty Wells; pencils: Mark Badger; inks: Mark Badger; colors: Robbie Busch; letters: John Costanza	Bobo T. Chimpanzee, Detective Chimp
5	-	letters page	2	script: Mark Waid

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 1.50 USD; 1.85 CAD; barcode 07098931766605

Collection	Year
DC's Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-594-1	2021	On eBay ›

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