Issue | #44 |
Published | January 1984 |
Cover Price | 1.25 |
Pages | 100 |
Editing | Nicola Cuti |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Gil Kane |
Inks | Gil Kane |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Element Lad; Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet; Phantom Girl; Mon-El; Superboy; Bouncing Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Triplicate Girl; Invisible Kid; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy] |
Synopsis | Isolationist planet Throon builds a citadel to keep others away and uses a ray to disable all passing spaceships. The first Legion team selected to take out the ray meets their defeat. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #319 (April 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid; Polar Boy; Stone Boy; Night Girl]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Star Boy; Triplicate Girl; Ultra Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Cosmic Boy; Invisible Kid; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Bouncing Boy; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Element Lad; Phantom Girl; Colossal Boy; Light Lass; Mon-El; Lightning Lad] |
Synopsis | The next two teams of Legionnaires also fail, but the Subs are able to put an end to the menace of Throon. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #319 (April 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [also as Clark Kent]; Chameleon Boy; Mon-El; Element Lad; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5]; Dev-Em; Radiation Roy; Proty II; Krypto; Molock |
Synopsis | Dev-Em arrives at Legion headquarters as a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps on a mission to nab the elusive leader of the Cosmic Spy Legion, Morlock the Merciless, but loses the assignment to Superboy. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel; Otto Binder (pgs. 4-9, uncredited) |
Pencils | John Forte (pgs. 1-3, 10); George Papp (pgs. 4-9) |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff (pgs. 1-3, 10); George Papp (pgs. 4-9); Al Plastino (Superboy and Clark Kent faces) |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #320 (May 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy, Chameleon Boy; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Mon-El]; Dev-Em; Molock; Proty II |
Synopsis | Superboy successfully completes Dev-Em's mission, with Proty II's help. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #320 (May 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Mon-El; Superboy; Shrinking Violet; Star Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Bouncing Boy; Element Lad; Ultra Boy; Chameleon Boy; Triplicate Girl; Brainiac 5; Matter-Eater Lad]; Time Trapper [also as Commissioner Wilson] |
Synopsis | The Legionnaires submit to tests of their ability to keep secret their greatest weapon from Commissioner Wilson. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Notes | Bouncing Boy loses his power and joins the Legion Reserves. |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #321 (June 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Star Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Invisible Kid; Element Lad; Sun Boy; Ultra Boy; Mon-El; Phantom Girl; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Brainiac 5]; Time Trapper [also as Commissioner Wilson]; Bouncing Boy |
Synopsis | Lightning Lad purposely fails his test to expose Commissioner Wilson as the Time Trapper. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #321 (June 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Triplicate Girl; Phantom Girl; Shrinking Violet; Lighting Lad (Cameo); Star Boy (Cameo); Matter-Eater Lad (Cameo)]; Lois Lane; Carla; Dr. Sloan; Mr. Appleby |
Synopsis | Lois Lane is having the luckiest day of her life, with a little help from a few Legionnaires. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Leo Dorfman |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger (signed) |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger (signed) |
Reprinted | from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #50 (July 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Pets [Super-Horse [Comet]; Krypto; Streaky; Super-Monkey [Beppo]; Proty II]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Phantom Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Brainiac 5; Light Lass; Saturn Girl; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy]; Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid; Polar Boy; Night Girl]; Supergirl |
Synopsis | With the Legion away trying to capture the Time Trapper, the Super-Pets are left in charge. They assign Proty II tests to prove he can join their ranks. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #322 (July 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Pets [Super-Horse [Comet]; Streaky; Super-Monkey [Beppo]; Krypto; Proty II [also as Chameleon Boy]]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Mon-El; Superboy; Sun Boy; Ultra Boy; Brainiac 5] |
Synopsis | Proty II passes his final tests and is admitted into the Legion of Super-Pets. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #322 (July 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Phantom Girl; Chameleon Boy; Brainiac 5; Ultra Boy; Element Lad]; Proty II; Spider Girl; Pete Ross; Jimmy Olsen; Double-Header; Jor-El (in flashback) |
Synopsis | Proty II comes up with a contest to determine the next Legion leader. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | George Klein |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #323 (August 1964) |
Characters | Legion of Super-Heroes [Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Element Lad; Superboy; Ultra Boy; Chameleon Boy; Shrinking Violet; Triplicate Girl; Light Lass; Invisible Kid; Matter-Eater Lad; Colossal Boy; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad]; Jimmy Olsen [also as Elastic Lad]; Lucy Lane; Proty II; Pete Ross |
Synopsis | Saturn Girl solves Proty's puzzle and remains Legion leader. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | George Klein |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #323 (August 1964) |
Script | Paul Levitz |
Pencils | Keith Giffen |
Inks | Larry Mahlstedt |
Reprinted | from DC Sampler (DC, 1983 series) #1 (1983) |
Script | Paul Levitz |
Pencils | Howard Bender |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |