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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March-April 1980
Cover Price 0.95
Pages 100
Editing Jack C. Harris

Cover Details - "Legion of Super-Heroes Featuring Superboy"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy]
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Giordano
Inks Dick Giordano

1 page Superboy cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #247"

Characters Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247 (April 1958)

12 page Superboy story "The Legion of Super-Heroes"

Characters Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]; Jonathan Kent (cameo)
Synopsis Three teens from the future offer Superboy membership in their super-hero club. But when Superboy fails to complete three simple tasks, the Legionnaires pretend to reject him, until they reveal that the three tasks were merely intitiation pranks which proved he is a good sport.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Lightning Lad called Lightning Boy in this story. There are several other unidentified Legionnaires in this story. The main Legionnaires are not in their usual costumes.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247 (April 1958)

24 page Legion story "The Rogue Legionnaire"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Colossal Boy; Shrinking Violet; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Superboy]; Universo; Rond Vidar
Synopsis Universo steals a time bubble, and the Legionnaires use a student's time cube to travel to the past in search of him. But Rond Vidar returns the Legionnaires to their own time and they stop Universo from taking hypnotic control of the United Planets Inner Council.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #349 (October 1966)

14 page Legion story "The Legion of Substitute Heroes"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Shrinking Violet]; Legion of Substitute Heroes [Polar Boy; Night Girl; Stone Boy; Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid]
Synopsis A group of rejected applicants band together as the Legion of Substitute Heroes and thwart the Plant Men's scheme to take over the Earth.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Joe Letterese
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #306

1 page Legion cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #300"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad, Triplicate Girl; Mon-El]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #300 (September 1962)

44 page Legion story "The Fatal Five"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Ferro Lad; Superboy; Princess Projectra; Cosmic Boy; Sun Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Invisible Kid; Colossal Boy; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl]; Fatal Five [Tharok; Emerald Empress; Validus; Persuader; Mano]
Synopsis As a last resort, the Legion decides to enlist the villainous Fatal Five to defend Earth from the Sun-Eater, so the Legionnaires set out separately to collect each of the Fatal Five. Once gathered, the heroes and villains prepare to confront the Sun-Eater, while Tharok plans for the aftermath. When Superboy attempts a final suicide mission to destroy the Sun-Eater, Ferro Lad knocks him out and sacrifices his life to deliver the bomb which destroys the Sun-Eater.
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes Combines two stories, "To Save a Galaxy" and "The Doomed Legionnaire," with 2 pages removed.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #352 (January 1967); from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #353 (February 1967)