1086 - Adventure Comics 363 - Black Day for the Legion!

Index Number – 1086 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 363
Cover Date – December 1967
Title – Black Day for the Legion!
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Superboy, Ultra Boy
Villain – Dr. Mantis Morlo
Synopsis – Morlo faces Legionnaires on Orando, Daxam and Naltor, at the same time. Chameleon Boy discovers that these battles are decoys, and everyone heads to Earth to prevent its destruction.
Writer – Jim Shooter
Artist – Jim Shooter, Pete Constanza / Pete Constanza
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 7 – 1997
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 3 - 2009
Comments – “If Chameleon Boy can look like anything or anyone, why doesn’t he change into something normal, and get rid of the antennas?”
This was a common question in the sixties in our little comic book club, and with this issue we received the answer; he uses the antenna to scan images of people, places and things to change into. Of course, we didn’t understand that a Durlan might be proud to look like a Durlan. It would be years later that we discovered that Durlans do not naturally look like this.