1073 - Adventure Comics 352 - The Fatal Five!

Index Number – 1073 -1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 352
Cover Date – January 1967
Title – The Fatal Five!
Characters – Cosmic Boy, Ferro Lad, Princess Projectra, Sun Boy, Superboy
Villains - Fatal Five - Emerald Empress, Mano, Persuader, Tharok, Validus
Synopsis – The Legionnaires gather together the five worst villains in the universe to battle a sun-eater.
Writer – Jim Shooter
Artist – Jim Shooter, Curt Swan / George Klein
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 5 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 3 - 2009
Comments – This two-parter is the template for the best epic “team book” stories, where the different abilities of the heroes are combined in a Rube Goldberg type plan to overcome a seemingly unbeatable adversary.