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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published February 1973
Cover Price 0.20 USD
Pages 36
Editing Jeff Rovin

Cover Details - "The Lad Who Wrecked the Legion!"

Characters Superboy; Mon-El; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl
Genre Superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy

7 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "[Part I]: The Lad Who Wrecked the Legion! "

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Superboy; Cosmic Boy; Triplicate Girl; Invisible Kid; Star Boy; Shrinking Violet; Mon-El; Ultra Boy; Lighting Lad; Phantom Girl]; Command Kid; Bouncing Boy
Synopsis Command Kid joins the Legion, but his arrogance puts off some of the Legionnaires. Star Boy, however, asks Command Kid to help him become as powerful as he is.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Letters David Huffine
Notes No credits on item; credits from other printings of the story.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #328

7 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Secret of the Legion Rookie?!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Shrinking Violet; Cosmic Boy; Invisible Kid; Star Boy; Triplicate Girl; Superboy; Phantom Girl; Ultra Boy; Saturn Girl; Element Lad]; Command Kid
Synopsis More Legionnaires submit to Command Kid's treatment, but Saturn Girl and Element Lad return with the solution to the mystery of Command Kid just in time.
Genre Superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Letters David Huffine
Notes No credits on item; credits from other printings of the story.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #328

2 page text article "The Legion of Super-Heroes Membership List -- (Part One)"

Characters Star Boy; Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Superboy; Element Lad
Script Cary Bates
Pencils John Forte (illoes)
Inks Sheldon Moldoff (first 3 illoes); George Klein (last 2 illoes)
Letters typeset
Notes No art credits on item; credits from other printings of the illustrations.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #335 [first 3 illoes]; from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #333 [last 2 illoes]

1 page Our Strange Universe story "It takes 24 1/2 days for the sun..."

Genre Fact

Half page Professor Eureka filler "We're the first to find this tomb, Professor Twiddle."

Characters Professor Eureka; Professor Twiddle
Synopsis The Prof. likes to read hieroglyphics before going to bed.
Genre Gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title, first line, and reprint data from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006.
Reprinted from Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #26

Half page text article "The Legion Constitution"

Letters typeset
Notes Selected passages from the Legion Constitution.

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Riddle of the Space Rainbow"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood; "Nova" Norton
Synopsis Nova Norton tries to trick Tommy Tomorrow into the nets of other-dimensional space fishermen, but Tommy outsmarts him.
Genre Science Fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes No credits on item; credits from GCD index of original printing.
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #232