Appearing in "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"Edit
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Adversaries:
- Elderly Throonians (Single appearance)[1]
Other Characters:
- Science Police
- James Bannon (Single appearance)[1]
- Tim Vare (Single appearance)[1]
Locations:
- Metropolis (30th Century)
- Throon
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"Edit
When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats.
When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve.
Appearing in "Superboy's Best Friend"Edit
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Synopsis for "Superboy's Best Friend"Edit
Story reprinted from Superboy #77
NotesEdit
- "The Legion's Suicide Squad!" is reprinted in Best of DC #44 and Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #3.
TriviaEdit
- No trivia.
See Also
Recommended ReadingEdit
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 2)
- Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds
- Legion Lost (Volume 1)
- Legion Lost (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 3)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 5)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 7)
- Legion Worlds (Volume 1)
- Legionnaires (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 1)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
- The Legion (Volume 1)
Links and ReferencesEdit
- None.
- Comics
- Week 09, 1964
- 1964
- 1964, April
- Silver-Age
- Original Price 0.12
- Comics Published in USA
- Adventure Comics Vol 1
- DC Comics
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Superman DC National Comics
- USA
- Mort Weisinger/Executive Editor
- Curt Swan/Cover Artist
- Sheldon Moldoff/Cover Artist
- Edmond Hamilton/Writer
- John Forte/Penciler
- John Forte/Inker
- Mort Weisinger/Editor
- Robert Bernstein/Writer
- George Papp/Penciler
- George Papp/Inker
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Charles Taine (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Querl Dox (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Reep Daggle (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Gim Allon (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Rokk Krinn (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Jan Arrah (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Lyle Norg (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Ayla Ranzz (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Garth Ranzz (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Tenzil Kem (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Lar Gand (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Tinya Wazzo (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Imra Ardeen (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Salu Digby (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Thom Kallor (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Dirk Morgna (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Superboy (Earth-One)/Appearances
- Luornu Durgo (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Jo Nah (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Legion of Substitute Heroes (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Ral Benem (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Staq Mavlen (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Lydda Jath (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Brek Bannin (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Dag Wentim (Pre-Zero Hour)/Appearances
- Science Police/Appearances
- Metropolis/Appearances
- 30th Century/Appearances
- Legion Clubhouse/Appearances
- Legion Flight Belt/Appearances
- Legion Cruiser/Appearances
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