Comic Title: Secret Origins #17
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1987
On Sale Date: May 12, 1987 Newsstand Date May 12, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Newsstand Date May 14, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Copyright Date April 21, 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

Shipping Date April 21, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "The Secret Origin of Adam Strange"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Adam Strange (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Gerry Conway
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Tony DeZuniga
Letterer: David Cody Weiss
Colorist: Joe Orlando

Reprinted In:
Legends of the DC Universe:Carmine Infantino HC (2023)

Feature Character(s)

• Adam Strange (last appearance in Adam Strange #1; next appearance in Swamp Thing #57)

Supporting Character(s)

• Alanna (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #57)
• Sardath (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #57)

Villain(s)

• The Eternals (an alien race; no further appearances)
• Invaders from Morleen (no further appearances)
• A tirbe of Incas (no further appearances)
• A tribe of barbarians (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Scientists of Samakand (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Archaeologist Adam Strange discovers the legendary Inca city Caramanga in the Andes. He is spotted by the Incas and chased into the jungle. Adam is forced to leap from a cliff to escape which takes him into the path of an odd ray of light. The light beam transports Adam across light years of space to the planet Rann.

Adam arrives on Rann and soon meets Alanna, the daughter of a great scientist named Sardath. After establishing a means of communication, Adam learns that Rann was once technologically superior, but much of their knowledge was lost in a nuclear war.

Rann is then threatened by an alien race known as the Eternals. The aliens seek a rare element called Vitatron. Adam leads the aliens to the city of Samakand which only materializes once every 25 years. Adam then leaves them in the city which disappears onto another plane of existance. After defeating the aliens the radiation from the Zeta-Beam wears off, and he returns to Earth.

Adam knows when the next Zeta-Beam will strike Earth. He waits for it and is again teleported. This time he lands on Anthorann, a neighboring planet to Rann. He is reunited with Alanna, then defeats another threat, the Morleens. Adam becomes the hero of Rann and falls in love with Alanna. However, when the Zeta radiation wears off he is again returned to Earth where he must wait for the next beam.