1114 - Action Comics - One Hero Too Many!

Index Number – 1114 - 1.0
Issue – Action Comics 387
Cover Date – April 1970
Title – One Hero Too Many!
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chemical King, 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, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy
Synopsis – The Legionnaires discover that they must pay taxes on gifts they receive because they have 1 member more that 25, the legal limit for a tax-exempt organization. Many members try to resign, but Superboy ultimately steps down.
Writer – E. Nelson Bridwell
Artist – Win Mortimer / Jack Abel
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 9 – 1999
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 4 - 2010
Comments – While I have always been an apologist for comic book creators and editors from the Golden and Silver Ages, and while I always felt that Superboy (and Supergirl) were not necessary as Legion members, this was a bad story. Your benefactor is the richest person around. He was armies of lawyers just keeping track of the billable time of the other armies of lawyers. They could get you an exception.