Comic Title: Secret Origins #24
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1988
On Sale Date: November 17, 1987 Shipping Date November 17, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #46

Shipping Date November 17, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #129

Newsstand Date December 10, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #129

Copyright Date December 8, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mark Waid

Title: "The All-True, Previously Recorded, Publicly Known, Heretofore Fully Revealed Secret Origin of the Blue Devil"
Pages: 19

Feature(s):
Blue Devil (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Gary Cohn
Writer: Dan Mishkin
Artist: Ty Templeton
Colorist: Shelly Eiber

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Devil (last appearance in Booster Gold #10; no further appearances)

Guest Star(s)

• Cain (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Sandman #9; next appearance in Sandman #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Marla Bloom (first post-Crisis appearance; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Wayne Tarrant (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Booster Gold #10)
• Sharon Scott (first post-Crisis appearance; in flashback; no further appearances)
• Norm Paxton (first post-Crisis appearance; in flashback; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Nebiros (in flashback; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Three children (Jerry named; no further appearances)
• Charlie (in flashback; a member of a movie crew; no further appearances)
• Two dream demons (Znarg named; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Blue Devil (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Booster Gold #10)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Superman (in flashback)
• Trickster (in flashback)

Comments:
This story retells the origin of Blue Devil and is a post-Crisis adaptation of Blue Devil #1.

Synopsis:
Three children plan to watch a movie about Blue Devil. Cain interrupts the party and decides to show them the real story. He taps into the dreaming mind of Dan Cassidy and displays the images on the television screen.

While shooting a movie, Il Du Diable, stunt man and special effects wizard Dan Cassidy creates a mechanical devil suit for use in the film. Wayne Tarrant and Sharon Scott accidentally release the demon Nebiros from a temple used as the location for the film. Dan puts on the devil suit to battle the demon. During the battle the demon blasts him with energy which permanently bonds the suit to the man. Cassidy eventually forces Nebiros back through the portal to the netherworld, but he can no longer remove the devil suit.

Cassidy becomes Blue Devil, a super-hero, and weirdness magnet. After the show is over, Cassidy awakens from his dream and kicks Cain out of the house.