Story: "...And the Pain Shall Leave My Heart" (8 Pages)

Credits: James Owsley (plot, script); Gil Kane (pencils, inks); Albert DeGuzman (letters); Anthony Tollin (colors); Dennis O'Neil (edits)

Feature Character: Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)

Supporting Characters: John Stewart, Katma Tui (dies; both also in flashback in #602 in between pages), Arisia

Villain: Star Sapphire (also in flashback in #602 in between pages)

Second Story: "Moral Stand, Chapter One: Point of Order" (8 Pages)

Credits: Max Collins (plot, script); Terry Beatty (pencils); John Nyberg (inks); Gaspar Saladino (letters); Michelle Wolfman (colors); Mike Gold (edits)

Feature Character: Wild Dog

Supporting Characters: Lieutenant Andy Flint, Detective Calloway, Susan King (a TV reporter), Len (her cameraman)

Villains: The Committee for Social Change (first appearance; a terrorist group)

Other Character: Captain Lange

Third Story: "Listening to the Mockingbird" (8 Pages)

Credits: Martin Pasko (plot, script); Dan Spiegle (pencils, inks); Carrie Spiegle (letters); Carl Gafford (colors); Dick Giordano (edits)

Feature Characters: Luke McKendrick (an Olympic Gold medalist in track), La Donna Jameal (a former actress), Vic Sommers (a former US Marine), Mitch Hoberman (a former sculptor, model-maker and special-effects artist), Maria Verdugo (a mathematician and computer specialist), Anthony Mantegna (a former Pulitzer Prize winning writer; first appearance of all six)

Supporting Characters: Mockingbird; Carlo di Rienzi, King Savage, Lili de Neuve, Kit Langman (formerly Kit Dawn), Mike Tempest, Dr. August Durant; Rafael de Rienzi (first appearance; Carlo's son), Melanie (first appearance; Vic Sommers' ex-wife), Gus (first appearance; Carlo di Rienzi's butler)

Villains: Warren Lichfield, Ed Flaum (first appearance of both; employees at Technodyne), Elvis Brockman (behind the scenes)

Other Characters: Thorsen (Durant's chauffeur), Heppel, Jeremy

Fourth Story: "Faster Than A Speeding Bullet!" (2 Pages)

Credits: Roger Stern (plot, script); Curt Swan (pencils); John Beatty (inks); Bill Oakley (colors); Tom Ziuko (colors); Mike Carlin (edits)

Feature Character: Superman

Villains: Charlie, Dave, one other (first appearance of all three; three hired guns); Charles Culpepper (first appearance; an agent of the Consortium), the Consortium (behind the scenes)

Other Character: Bob Galt (first appearance)

Fifth Story: "The Section Chief" (8 Pages)

Credits: Mike Baron (plot, script); Dan Jurgens (pencils); Tony DeZuniga (inks); Steve Haynie (letters); Liz Berube (colors); Barbara Randall (edits)

Feature Character: Deadman

Villains: Major Grace Kasaba (first appearance; a CIA Section Chief), Barry, Lewis (first appearance of both; CIA agents); Talaoc (first appearance; an alien being having taken the form of an old war god; takes possession of Grace Kasaba in this story)

Other Character: Fulgencio Flores (first appearance; a professor of ancient civilizations at Dakota Wesleyan University)

Sixth Story: "Another Fine War" (8 Pages)

Credits: Mike Grell (plot, script); Rick Burchett (pencils); Pablo Marcos (inks); Steve Haynie (letters); Tom Ziuko (colors); Mike Gold (edits)

Feature Character: Blackhawk (last in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #48)

Supporting Character: Cynthia Hastings (first appearance; a nun)

Other Character: Zalecki (first appearance; a gambler)

Comment: Story takes place in February 1947