Sunday, May 23, 2010

1001 - Adventure 247 - The Legion of Super-Heroes


Index Number – 1001 - 1.0
Issue - Adventure 247
Cover Date – April 1958
Title – The Legion of Super Heroes
Characters – Cosmic Boy, Lightning Boy, Saturn Girl, Superboy
Synopsis – Legionnaires invite Superboy to the future to join the Legion of Super-Heroes
Introductions – Cosmic Boy (Rokk Krinn), Lightning Boy (Garth Ranzz), Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen)
Writer – Otto Binder
Artist – George Papp
Cover – Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Editor - Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 1 – 1991
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 1 - 2007
Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years in the Future - 2008
Comments – Yes, there are other Legionnaires pictured, but for our purposes, only identified characters will be indexed. (Hence the term “arbitrary”)
Revised Narrative - Superman - Secret Origin 2 - November 2009 - Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes. In this story, it is revealed that Brainiac 5, Phantom Girl, and Triplicate Girl are members of the Legion. In Adventure Comics 519 (Dewcember 2010), Playing Hooky II, Brainiac 5 reveales that he planned the Legion's first trip to visit Superboy, instead of Superman (claiming it was a mistake), so that they could come back to Smallville at a later time to destroy one of the robot probes that his ancestor, Brainiac, used to seek out technology.

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