Saturday, November 20, 2010

1168 - Superboy 218 - The Super Villain the World Never Knew

Index Number – 1168 - 1.0
Issue – Superboy 218
Cover Date – July 1976
Title – The Super Villain the World Never Knew
Characters –Absorbency Boy, Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Infectious Lass, Light Lass, Sun Boy, Star Boy, Superboy, Tyroc
Introduction – Absorbency Boy (Kirt Niedrigh)
Villain – Absorbvency Boy, Zoraz
Synopsis – . Tyroc joins up after defeating Absorbency Boy, a refected applicant who attacked the Legion.
Writer – Cary Bates
Artist – Mike Grell
Cover – Mike Grell
Editor – Murray Boltinoff, Jack Harris
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 12 – 2003
Comments – Future Sub Infectious Lass graces a Legion story again. Lots of forshadowing going on in this story. Absorbency Boy will resurface in the 2000s as Earth-Man. The Legion cell bank, a depository of genetic material for each Legionnaire, is introduced. Can you say “SW6”?

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