Dear Editor,
Wow, Weird Secret Origins is a fantastic anthology. Let me just go down the list of stories that you included in there: Dr. Fate, Enchantress, Animal Man, Congorilla, El Diablo, and Spectre. Then there are also mini explanations on Bizarro World and Metamorpho. It's a ton.
I will say some of these stories feel very dated. I mean, Dr. Fate's story is like a collection of all the things I don't like about golden age comics. For that part the sexism in Spector's origin is also astonishing.
On a whole this is a great read. The stories span an interesting spectrum from fun adventures to bizarre to dark and almost sinister. Animal Man and Congorilla are on the fun adventure side. Then, Enchantress is a little bizarre. And, of course El Diablo and Spectre are on the dark side.
I think the biggest surprise for me in this book was El Diablo. I've tended to stay away from the western books. I just assumed that the would be all the same story over and over. But, if I can find more stories like El Diablo's origin I would certainly want to put them into my regular cycle.
Thanks,
Jeff King
Pittsburgh, PA
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