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Issue Details

Issue #44
Published January 1984
Cover Price 1.25
Pages 100
Editing Nicola Cuti

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane

9 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"

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)

9 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Charge of the Substitute Heroes!"

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)

10 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Revenge of the Knave from Krypton!"

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)

7 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Treachery of Molock the Merciless"

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)

8 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Code of the Legion!"

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)

9 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Weakest Legionnaire"

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)

8 page Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane story "Lois Lane's Luckiest Day!"

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)

8 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Super-Tests of the Super-Pets!"

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)

9 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Pet of a Thousand Faces"

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)

8 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Eight Impossible Missions!"

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)

8 page Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Amazing Winner of the Great Proty Puzzle!"

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)

2 page feature story "What Kind of Sentient Being Devours Every Issue of The Legion"

Script Paul Levitz
Pencils Keith Giffen
Inks Larry Mahlstedt
Reprinted from DC Sampler (DC, 1983 series) #1 (1983)

1 page text article "The Story behind the Stories"

Script Paul Levitz

1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Pencils Howard Bender
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger