Comic Title: Secret Origins #15
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1987
On Sale Date: March 12, 1987 Newsstand Date March 12, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Newsstand Date March 12, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #111

Shipping Date February 17, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Shipping Date February 17, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #111

Shipping Date February 17, 1987
Source: Comics Journal, #114

Copyright Date February 17, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date March 12, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #690, #692, #694

Shipping Date February 17, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #690, #692, #694

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Death Like a Crown"
Pages: 16

Feature(s):
Deadman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Andrew Helfer
Penciller: Kevin Maguire
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Deadman Vol. 5 TPB (2014)
Deadman Omnibus HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Deadman (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Deadman:Love After Death #2; next appearance in Millennium #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Vashnu (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Lorna Hill (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Rama Kushna (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Tiny (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Sensei (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• League of Assassins (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Hook (aka Matson; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Jonah (a spirit inhabiting the Sensei; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Taj-Ze (guardian of Nanda Parbat; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Lotus (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Maxwell Loomis (no further appearances)
• Kane (a candidate for President; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Rama Kushna confronts a spirit named Jonah who has possessed the Sensei and created the League of Assassins. Since she is unable to stop the spirit directly she summons Vashnu and Maxwell Loomis from Nanda Parbat. She then orders them to the Hills Brothers Circus where they meet Boston Brand.

Vashnu takes a job as a fortune teller, while Loomis helps promote the circus including staging a stunt with Brand to earn the attention of a presidential candidate. The candidate is the target of the Hook, an agent of the League of Assassins. Vashnu disguises himself as the Sensei to change Hook's orders. The new target is Brand, whom Hook shoots at the circus. Rama then meets with Brand and plans to use his spirit to stop Jonah.