Issue | #9 |
Published | 1999 |
Cover Price | $49.95 |
Pages | 256 |
Editing | Dale Crain; Mort Weisinger (original editor of all reprinted material) |
Notes | ISBN 1-56389-514-5 |
Characters | Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Colossal Boy; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Shrinking Violet; Chemical King |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Mike Collins |
Inks | Mark Farmer |
Colors | Tom McCraw |
Notes | ISBN 1-56389-514-5 |
Characters | Invisible Kid; Superboy |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Notes | frontispiece |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Lightning Lad; Phantom Girl; Star Boy |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 [slightly altered] |
Characters | Shadow Lass; Superboy |
Script | KC Carlson |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Curt Swan (pencils |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Typeset |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #384 [illo only] |
Characters | Superboy; Princess Projectra |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Neal Adams |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Curt Swan credit verified by nealadams.com; pencils incorrectly credited to Neal Adams on item. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #377 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Karate Kid; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Duo Damsel; Princess Projectra]; Modulus; Leland McCauley III |
Synopsis | After the Legion learns of a drug-dealing operation, they begin to demand payment for their hero services. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #377 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Princess Projectra; Brainiac 5; Karate Kid; Chemical King] |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires' money-hunger turns out to be a plan to collect the materials necessary to put Modulus out of business. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #377 |
Characters | Superboy; Brainiac 5; Duo Damsel |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Neal Adams |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Curt Swan credit verified by nealadams.com; pencils incorrectly credited to Neal Adams on item. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #378 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Duo Damsel; Brainiac 5; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid]; Lana Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent |
Synopsis | During a celebration of Brainiac 5's birthday, the Legionnaires are poisoned. While Superboy and Duo Damsel struggle with telling their parents, Karate Kid heads out on a suicide mission in search of the Fatal Five. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #378 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Karate Kid; Princess Projectra; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Duo Damsel]; The Fatal Five [Validus; Persuader; Tharok; Emerald Empress; Mano]; Myron Marks |
Synopsis | Karate Kid takes on the Fatal Five solo, and disrupts their plans, then returns to Legion headquarters, where all the Legionnaires seemingly drop dead. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Notes | Continues in following story. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #378 |
Characters | Superboy; Invisible Kid; Shrinking Violet |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Carmine Infantino (layouts) |
Inks | Neal Adams (finishes) |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Carmine Infantino credit verified by nealadams.com; complete art job incorrectly credited to Neal Adams on item. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Princess Projectra; Brainiac 5; Karate Kid; Invisible Kid; Superboy; Duo Damsel; Shrinking Violet; Ultra Boy; Star Boy; Phantom Girl; Timber Wolf; Chameleon Boy; Chemical King; Lightning Lad] |
Synopsis | A native of Seeris offers to revive the fallen Legionnaires if the rest of the Legion defends his people from invaders. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | John Costanza |
Notes | Continues from previous story. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Lightning Lad; Timber Wolf; Chameleon Boy; Star Boy; Phantom Girl; Invisible Kid; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Duo Damsel] |
Synopsis | On Seeris the team of Legionnaires unsuccessfully confronts the invaders, while Invisible Kid and Shrinking Violet commit the dead Legionnaires to space. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | John Costanza |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Star Boy; Superboy; Phantom Girl; Chameleon Boy; Chemical King; Timber Wolf; Lightning Lad; Invisible Kid; Shrinking Violet; Duo Damsel; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Karate Kid; Princess Projectra] |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires fail to defend the Seerons, who must stand up for themselves. When the team returns to Earth, the seemingly dead Legionaires are revived with the help of the Miracle Machine. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | John Costanza |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Ultra Boy; Duo Damsel; Bouncing Boy; Superboy |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Mike Esposito |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Lettering credit from index of original issue. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Duo Damsel; Bouncing Boy; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Dream Girl; Light Lass; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Ultra Boy] |
Synopsis | Dream Girl reveals a prophecy to only Superboy, then several Legionnaires are teleported off Earth. Superboy is seemingly killed and the other Legionnaires create a monument for him. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Bouncing Boy; Duo Damsel; Ultra Boy; Invisible Kid; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Light Lass; Sun Boy] |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires build their own spaceship and head for home, but have to crashland on a watery world. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Duo Damsel; Superboy; Mon-El; Invisible Kid]; Legion of Super-Pets [Proty II; Streaky; Krypto; Comet; Beppo] |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires make their way home and discover that their odyssey was an effort to keep them from fulfilling Dream Girl's prophecy of their deaths. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |
Characters | Light Lass; Timber Wolf; Lightning Lad |
Synopsis | Timber Wolf overcomes an addiction through will power. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Mike Esposito |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Charlotte Jetter |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #378 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Dream Girl; Shadow Lass]; Sunburst |
Synopsis | The Legion computer alerts them that one of the members is an imposter, but when they take on the villain Sunburst, the imposter is revealed. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Duo Damsel; Bouncing Boy; Mon-El]; Nam'Lor |
Synopsis | When Duo Damsel sends just one of her selves on an extended mission, it seems to return with its own personality. But it is really just the result of proximity to the power of the hero she met on the mission. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Shrinking Violet; Matter-Eater Lad; Karate Kid; Phantom Girl; Chemical King; Brainiac 5; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Princess Projectra]; Duplicate Boy |
Synopsis | While other Legionnaires spend time with their families, Matter-Eater Lad has an argument with his father. He ends up back at Legion headquarters where Shrinking Violet complains about her boyfirend troubles. They go out on a date which is interrupted by the arrival of Duplicate Boy. But instead of fighting, Matter-Eater Lad teaches Duplicate Boy how to treat a lady. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #381 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Karate Kid; Ultra Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Mon-El; Timber Wolf; Light Lass [as Carina Walter]]; Protector; Zorla; Casvarr |
Synopsis | The Legion uncover and dismantle a protection racket powered by two of their own. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Win Mortimer (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #382 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy [also as Dane Roberts]; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid]; Janice Warren |
Synopsis | Chameleon Boy escorts Princess Projectra and meets her friend Janice. Since Janice is repelled by Chameleon Boy's appearance, he disguises himself as Dane to get to know her. But when one of her jewels goes missing, "Dane" becomes a suspect. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #383 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Ultra Boy; Princess Projectra; Element Lad; Mon-El; Dream Girl; Superboy; Karate Kid; Shadow Lass]; Eltro Gand |
Synopsis | When Dream Girl dreams of the death of Mon-El, the Legionnaires and even the planet of Daxam try to protect him. A descendant of his brother, Eltro Gand, takes his place, but Mon dies as a result of lead poisoning. Eltro uses his life essence to revive Mon using the same technology that once revived Lightning Lad. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jim Shooter |
Pencils | Jim Shooter (layouts); Curt Swan (pencils) |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #384 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Star Boy; Karate Kid; Dream Girl; Brainiac 5] |
Synopsis | Star Boy leads a mission to his home planet and faces the brother of the man he killed in self-defense. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #385 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Karate Kid; Brainiac 5]; Night Girl; Hawkor Phuy; Uli Algor |
Synopsis | Released ex-con Uli Algor has a defense for every super-power the Legion has, but none for a good old-fashioned uppercut. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Shelly Leferman |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #386 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl (cameo); Lightning Lad (cameo); Cosmic Boy (cameo); Duo Damsel; Phantom Girl; Chameleon Boy (cameo); Colossal Boy (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo); Star Boy (cameo); Supergirl; Brainiac 5; Shrinking Violet (cameo); Superboy; Sun Boy; Bouncing Boy; Ultra Boy; Matter-Eater Lad (cameo); Mon-El; Light Lass (cameo); Element Lad; Karate Kid; Princess Projectra; Dream Girl; Shadow Lass (cameo); Timber Wolf; Chemical King]; Prof. Sayar; Wayland Bannan; Legion of Super-Pets [Krypto; Streaky; Comet; Beppo; Proty II] |
Synopsis | The Legion must lose a member for tax reasons, and though many try to resign, eventually Superboy convinces everyone that it is his time to leave. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #387 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Chemical King]; Klim |
Synopsis | The head of the android criminal Klim seeks to reunite with his body and to take his revenge on the Legionnaire who defeated him, but the same team that stopped him before stops him again. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Cary Bates |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #389 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Element Lad; Karate Kid; Timber Wolf; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl]; President Peralla of Lahum; Diol Masrin; Chavak; Proty II; Nym Belev; Yroa; Wanpar; Marli Zhorg |
Synopsis | The Legion Espionage Squad is asked to overthrow the president of Lahum, without allowing a revolutionary alligned with the Dark Circle to take power. While most of the team infiltrate the revolutionaries, Saturn Girl gets a position with an official in the cabinet of the president. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Joe Letterese |
Notes | Continues in next story. |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #390 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Element Lad; Timber Wolf; Karate Kid; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy; Karate Kid]; Wanpar; Marli Zhorg; Diol Masrin; Yroa; Nym Belev |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires help the rebels overthrow the president and turn the rebels against Masrin. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Notes | Continues from previous story. |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #391 |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid; Matter-Eater Lad; Shadow Lass; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Sun Boy [also as Saturn Lad]; Brainiac 5 [also as Prince Projectur]; Chameleon Boy [also as Pozr-Du]; Mon-El; Element Lad; Ultra Boy; Light Lass (cameo); Dream Girl (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo); Supergirl (cameo); Timber Wolf (cameo); Bouncing Boy (cameo); Lightning Lad (cameo); Phantom Girl (cameo); Duo Damsel (cameo); Colossal Boy (cameo); Chemical King (cameo); Star Boy (cameo)] |
Synopsis | When Saturn Girl and Princess Projectra return from a mission their fellow Legionnaires don't recognize them. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Cary Bates |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Jack Abel |
Colors | Digital Chameleon |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #392 |
Script | Mark Waid; Rich Morrissey |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Short biographies of the primary writers and artists of the stories in this volume. |
Characters | Superboy; Princess Projectra; Brainiac 5; Duo Damsel; Invisible Kid; Shrinking Violet; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy |
Pencils | Curt Swan; Carmine Infantino (layouts, #379 only) |
Inks | Neal Adams (finishes on #379, inks on #377 & 378); Mike Esposito (#380 only) |
Colors | Tom McCraw |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino |
Notes | Four small cover reproductions on back cover. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #377; from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #378; from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #379; from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #380 |