Secret Files and Origins


Secret Files and Origins is a series of one-shot comic books and miniseries produced by DC Comics during the late 1990s and 2000s.

Publication history

The books are a combination of origin stories, profile pages, and short stories which sometimes serve as prologues to upcoming DC Comics storylines. Many early issues also featured timelines of significant events in the characters' histories, but this stopped after the release of Guide to the DC Universe 2000 Secret Files and Origins #1. Some of these one-shots are released to coincide with a new series, or with a special event. Originally the books featured sequential numbering, but from 2003-2006 this was dropped in favor of putting the year of publication in the title ; sequential numbering returned with the release of Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps: Secret Files and Origins #1 in 2007.