1062 - Adventure Comics 341 - Colossal Boy's One Man War!

Index Number – 1062 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 341
Cover Date – February 1966
Title – Colossal Boy’s One Man War!
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Duo Damsel, Invisible Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Ultra Boy;
Introduction – Duo Damsel (Luornu Durgo)
Villain – Computo the Conqueror
Synopsis – After mourning Triplicate Girl’s apparent death, the Legionnaires are delighted to discover that two Luorno’s still remain. After a few misses (Bizarro-Computo, the Weirdo Legionnaire), Brainiac destroys his creation.
Writer – Jerry Siegel
Artist – Curt Swan / Sheldon Moldoff
Cover – Curt Swan / Sheldon Moldoff
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 5 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – This issue begins the tradition of disastrous inventions from Brainiac 5. 12th level intelligence, yeah, right.

1061 - Adventure Comics 340 - Computo the Conqueror!

Index Number – 1061 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 340
Cover Date – January 1966
Title – Computo the Conqueror!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Element Lad, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Triplicate Girl, Ultra Boy
Villain – Computo the Conqueror
Synopsis – Brainiac’s latest science project turns on him and tries to take over the world, while apparently killing Triplicate Girl.
Writer – Jerry Siegel
Artist – Curt Swan / George Klein
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 5 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – Even our younger brothers thought Computo and his army looked ridiculous.

1060 - Adventure Comics 339 - Hunters of the Super-Beasts!

Index Number – 1060 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 339
Cover Date – December 1965
Title – Hunters of the Super-Beasts!
Characters – Beast Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Duplicate Boy, Evolvo Lad, Gas Girl, Invisible Kid, Life Lass, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy,
Villain – Beast Boy
Synopsis – Beast Boy of Lallor become alienated against humans and organizes an animal army on a jungle planet. He dies saving a young girl from one of the beasts that he freed on Earth.
Writer – Edmond Hamilton
Artist – John Forte / Sheldon Moldoff
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008

1059 - Superboy 125 - The Sacrifice of Kid Psycho

Index Number – 1059 – 1.0
Issue – Superboy 125
Cover Date – December 1965
Title – The Sacrifice of Kid Psycho
Characters – Chameleon Boy, Cosmic Boy, Kid Psycho, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Sun Boy, Superboy
Introduction – Kid Psycho (Gnill Opril)
Synopsis – After being rejected for Legion membership, Kid Psycho travels to the 21st century to demonstrate his abilities to Superboy, and to ask him to intercede with the Legionnaires. They learn that Kid Psycho shortens his life span by one year every time he projects a force field. He is pleased to be named the reserve as the Legion’s Secret Weapon.
Writer – Otto Binder
Artist – George Papp
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – Did Swan and Klein draw every cover, or just the ones form Weisinger?

1058 - Adventure Comics 338 - The Menace of the Sinister Super-Babies!

Index Number – 1058 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 338
Cover Date – November 1965
Title – The Menace of the Sinister Super-Babies!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Light Lass, Matter-Eater Lad, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Superboy, Ultra Boy
Villains - Glorith, Time Trapper
Synopsis – After Glorith turns the Legionnaires into babies, the Time Trapper has so much trouble as a baby-sitter that he allows himself to be captured.
Writer – Jerry Seigel
Artist – John Forte
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – In this issue, Element Lad, the sensitive one, refers to Glorith saying, “The chick isn’t bluffing.”

1057 - Adventure Comics 337 - The Weddings that Wrecked the Legion!

Index Number – 1057 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 337
Cover Date – October 1865
Title – The Weddings that Wrecked the Legion!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Element Lad, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Night Girl, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Superboy, Triplicate Girl, Ultra Boy
Villain - Blackout Boy, Magnetic Kid, Size Lad
Synopsis – Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy; and Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad pretend to marry and resign from the Legion, Three alien spies are inducted on purpose to expose their invasion plans.
Writer – Edmond Hamilton
Artist – John Forte / Sheldon Moldoff
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 - 2008
Comments – The abilities of the three spies were suggested by letter column contributors.

1056 - Adventure Comics 336 - The True Identity of Starfinger!

Index Number – 1056 - 1.0
Issue – Adventure Comics 336
Cover Date – September 1965
Title – The True Identity of Starfinger!
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Superboy, Triplicate Girl, Ultra Boy
Villain – Starfinger, Dr. Lars Hanscom
Synopsis – Starfinger continues his rampage until he is unmasked and found to be Lightning Lad, under the control of his physician.
Writer – Edmond Hamilton
Artist – John Forte / Sheldon Moldoff
Cover – Curt Swan / George Klein
Editor – Mort Weisinger
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 4 – 1994
Showcase Presents the Legion of Super-Heroes 2 – 2008
Comments – As of this issue, Lightning Lad has been killed, revived, de-armed, and turned into a villain. Talk about a run of bad luck. (More about that in a number of years.)