1229 - Superboy and the Legion of Super HEroes 247 - Celebration!

Index Number – 1229 - 1.0
Issue – Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes 247
Cover Date – January 1979 – 10/23/1978
Title – Celebration!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dawnstar, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Timber Wolf, Tyroc, Ultra Boy, Wildfire
Synopsis – Lightning Lad is elected Leader. The Legionnaires celebrate an anniversary of Superboy’s induction.
Writer – Paul Levitz
Artist – Joe Staton / David Hunt
Editor – James C. Harris
Comment – As we all know, the Legion first appeared in Adventure Comics 247. This story was published in Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes 247. By DC’s reckoning, this story is also the 247th story to feature the Legion. What a coincidence! By my calculations, this in only story number 229. Since I arbitrarily count only stories that advance the lore of the Legion, I have not included many Legion cameos from various Superman family books. I did include a number of Karate Kid stories that did not co-star the Legion (Hence the term “arbitrary” ). I have attempted to reconcile the DC numbering with mine, as well as with Legion Wiki and Legion Outpost II, to no avail.
This story was dedicated to Mort Weisinger, the first editor and major creative force of the Legion of Super Heroes. Without Mort, we might not have read 7 Legion stories, so numbers be damned , , , Long Live the Legion . . . and Mort.