Friday, September 3, 2010

1096 - Adventure Comics 372 - School for Super-Villains!

Index Number – 1096 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 372
Cover Date – September 1968
Title – School for Super Villains!
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chemical King, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy
Villain – Tarik the Mute, Legion of Super-Villains
Synopsis – Superboy, Chameleon Boy, Timber Wolf and Chemcial King infiltrate the training facility of the Legion of Super Villains, where they discover a number of rejected Legion applicants and Colossal Boy as an instructor. He sees the error of his ways and the Legion prevails. Timber Wolf and Chemical King are inducted.
Writer – Jim Shooter
Artist - Jim Shooter. Curt Swan / Curt Swan, Jack Abel
Cover – Neal Adams / Neal Adams
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 8 – 1998
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 4 - 2010
Comments – The Legionnaires consistently do two things wrong; inducting members who only cause trouble as members, and rejecting applicants who only cause trouble as enemies. If only they had some kind of . . . er . . . academy . . never mind.

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