Comic Title: Secret Origins #21
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1987
On Sale Date: September 8, 1987 Newsstand Date September 8, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #43

Newsstand Date September 8, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 18, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 18, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Shipping Date August 18, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpack August 1987

Copyright Date July 27, 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 August 18, 1987
Source: Comic Shop News, #8

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

Title: "Requiem for a Gunfighter"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Jonah Hex (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Michael L. Fleisher
Artist: Gray Morrow
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Robert K. LeRose

Feature Character(s)

• Jonah Hex (first post-Crisis appearance; as a stuffed corpse; last appearance in Time Masters #3; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Lewellyn and his men (Ronald named; no further appearances)
• Lucas McGill (in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Lawrence (no further appearances)
• Tall Bird (no further appearances)
• Mr. Moskowitz (a movie director; no further appearances)
• The cast and crew of a movie (Nadine named; no further appearances)
• Mr. Kastner (a Frontier City executive; no further appearances)
• Woodson and his wife (Jonah's parents; in flashback to his youth; no further appearances)
• An unnamed woman (in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Jonah Hex (as a young man; earliest chronological post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Swamp Thing #85)

Synopsis:
During the filming of a movie, a cowboy statue is damaged. The statue is determined to be the stuffed corpse of Jonah Hex. Frontier City wants the statue, but an injunction has been filed by an indian woman, Tall Bird, who claims to be Jonah's common law widow. Professor Lawrence is sent to investigate her claims.

Professor Lawrence meets Tall Bird is Wyoming. She tells him a story of Jonah's youth in which he was abused by his alcoholic father. Later as a young man, Jonah was drinking and mistook an abusive man for his own father. Jonah shot the man who turned out to be Lucas McGill, a criminal. Jonah received a reward and went on to establish himself as an elite bounty hunter.

Mr. Lewellyn, a collector of authentic frontier memorabilia, wants the Hex statue also. He tries to take it from Tall Bird at gunpoint. Strangely, the gun held by Jonah's corpse fires and kills Lewellyn.