DCU: Origins & Omens

"Origins & Omens" is a multi-part serialized set of mini-stories that took place in select comic book issues published by DC Comics in 2009. They were six-pages stories presented as back-up tales in various issues focusing on a specific DC Comics hero or villain, the purpose of which was to "tell you all you need to know about where they've come from... or where they're about to go". There were eighteen issues of this storyline published in total. The stories were presented from the perspective of Scar - a renegade member of the Guardians of the Universe who read these tales from the Book of the Black.

Issues

 * 1) Adventure Comics 0
 * 2) Nightwing 153
 * 3) Action Comics 874 - Guardian, Jim Harper
 * 4) Booster Gold Vol 2 17
 * 5) Green Arrow and Black Canary 17
 * 6) Green Lantern Corps 33
 * 7) Titans 10
 * 8) Outsiders Vol 3 15
 * 9) Birds of Prey 127
 * 10) JLA 30
 * 11) Robin Vol 4 183
 * 12) Supergirl Vol 6 38
 * 13) Vigilante Vol 2 3
 * 14) Green Lantern Vol 4 38
 * 15) JSA 24
 * 16) Superman 685
 * 17) Teen Titans Vol 3 68
 * 18) Wonder Woman Vol 3 29

Notes & Trivia

 * Ed Benes was the artist on the promotional advertisement for "Origins & Omens" that ran through all DC Comics issues in April, 2009.