Comic Title: Secret Origins Special #1
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: August 15, 1989 Shipping Date August 15, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169

Shipping Date August 15, 1989
Source: Previews, #6

Shipping Date August 17, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #8

Direct Market Date August 17, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110, #112

Shipping Date August 15, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #167, Page 14

Copyright Date August 15, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Annually
Cover Price: $2.00
Page Count: 64
Editor: Mark Waid

Title: "The Killing Peck"
Pages: 18

Writer: Alan Grant
Artist: Sam Kieth
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Tom J. McCraw

Reprinted In:
Batman:Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler TPB (1995)
DC Universe by Neil Gaiman:The Deluxe Edition HC (2016)
DC Universe by Neil Gaiman TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Batman #433; next appearance in Detective Comics #610)

Guest Star(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Captain Atom #33; next appearance in Secret Origins Special #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Nememiah O'Rourke (aka Knuckles; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Secret Origins Special #1)

Villain(s)

• Sharkey (a bully turned gang boss; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Captain Atom #33; next appearance in Batman #440)

Other Character(s)

• Charlie and his partner (prisoner transport drivers; both dies in this story; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Penguin (as a schoolboy; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #568)

Synopsis:
The Penguin breaks a gangster named Sharkey out of a prison transport vehicle. He then takes Sharkey to the zoo and proceeds to torture him. The gangster was the Penguin's tormentor and bully when they were school children. The Penguin is now after revenge. Batman tracks down the Penguin and is barely in time to save Sharkey's life. The Penguin gets away.