SECRET ORIGINS #7

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Secret Origins #7 is part of DC's mid-1980s anthology series devoted to retelling and codifying the origins of its roster, published in the run-up to and aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths. This issue pairs the Golden Age mystery-man Doctor Mid-Nite (Charles McNider), with ties to the Crimson Avenger and period New York color including a cameo from Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, alongside a retelling of Hal Jordan's origin as Green Lantern, bringing in Abin Sur, Guy Gardner, and the alien Corpsman Ch'p. Scripting is credited to Dann Thomas, with pencils split between Ernie Colon and Michael Bair; the cover is by Brian Bolland, one of the era's most recognizable cover stylists, though his presence here is decorative rather than historically pivotal since the book reprints and reframes existing origin material rather than presenting anything new.

As an anthology issue built around origin recaps rather than first appearances, Secret Origins #7 has never carried meaningful aftermarket demand; it was not tracked with a fair-market value by standard pricing services, which reflects a book that trades near cover price in raw form. Whatever interest the issue attracts is tied almost entirely to the Bolland cover credit and to completists assembling a full run of the Secret Origins series or gathering Doctor Mid-Nite and Golden Age Green Lantern Corps-adjacent material, rather than to any landmark content inside.

This is a reader and completist book: appropriate for someone building a full Secret Origins run, a Doctor Mid-Nite or Green Lantern origin-story collection, or a Brian Bolland cover gallery, rather than for investment-driven key-issue buyers. Raw copies in any condition are inexpensive and plentiful, and even top-graded slabs command only modest premiums driven by scarcity of high-grade newsstand survivors rather than by content demand.