1052 - Adventure Comics 352 - The Super-Moby Dick of Space!

Index Number – 1052 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 332
Cover Date – May 1965
Title – The Super-Moby Dick of Space!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Sun Boy, Superboy, Ultra Boy
Villain – The Super-Moby Dick of Space
Synopsis – Lightning Lad becomes obsessed with stopping the space beast that destroyed his arm.
Writer – Edmond Hamilton
Artist – John Forte / George Klein
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – Some years after this story was published, I read that the editors and creators had been adapting classic literature for Legion stories. This one is obvious. Adventure 318, “The Mutiny of the Super Heroes”, was based on “The Mutiny on the Bounty” and Adventure 380, “The Legion’s Space Odyssey”, was bosed on Homer’s (not Simpson) “Odyssey”.