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: "The Secret Origin of the Black Condor"
Pages: 19

Writer: Roy Thomas
Artist: Murphy Anderson
Letterer: Jean Simek (Izzo)
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Black Condor (Dick Grey, Jr.; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Gali Kan and his men (no further appearances)
• Jaspar Crow (behind-the-scenes; a businessman; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Major Richard and Anne Grey (Black Condor's parents; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• A flock of condors (no further appearances)
• Father Pierre (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Senator Tom Wright (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Doctor Henry Foster (no further appearances)
• Residents of Hindustan (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is an adaptation of stories from Crack Comics #1 and retells the origin of the Black Condor.

Synopsis:
Major Richard Grey leads an expedition in outer Mongolia. The party is attacked by riders loyal to Gali Kan. All are killed including Grey and his wife Anne. Only their infant son Dick survives.

The boy is found by condors and raised as one of them. Over the years, he attempts to fly like his adopted brothers and eventually the radiation of a nearby meteorite gives him the ability to do so.

When he is later injured fighting aerial combat with an eagle, the young man is found by an isolated monk, Father Pierre. Without knowing the youth's history, the monk names him the Black Condor. He spends a year teaching the boy speech and gives him knowledge about the world.

After a year, Father Pierre is killed by Gali Kan. The Black Condor leads a flock of condors against the horsemen while they are invading Hindustan. The Black Condor kills Gali Kan and forces the riders to retreat.

The Black Condor then leaves his bird friends and travels to America to find his destiny. Shortly after his arrival, he witnesses the death of Senator Tom Wright. The Condor is a striking double for the senator. He decides to assume Wright's identity and carry on his duties as a member of the Senate.