Adventure Comics Vol 1 319

Adventure Comics Vol 1 #319 Published Released April, 1964 February 27, 1964 Issue Details Pages 36 Original Price 0.12 Cover Artists Curt Swan Sheldon Moldoff Publisher DC Comics Indicia Publisher National Periodical Publications, Inc. Brand/Imprint Superman DC National Comics "The Legion's Suicide Squad!" Writers Edmond Hamilton Pencilers John Forte Inkers John Forte Editors Mort Weisinger "Superboy's Best Friend" Writers Robert Bernstein Pencilers George Papp Inkers George Papp Editors Mort Weisinger Previous Issue Next Issue Adventure Comics #318 Adventure Comics #320

Appearing in "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"

Featured Characters:

• Legion of Super-Heroes
  • Bouncing Boy
  • Brainiac 5
  • Chameleon Boy
  • Colossal Boy
  • Cosmic Boy
  • Element Lad
  • Invisible Kid
  • Light Lass
  • Lightning Lad
  • Matter-Eater Lad
  • Mon-El
  • Phantom Girl
  • Saturn Girl
  • Shrinking Violet
  • Star Boy
  • Sun Boy
  •  Superboy 
  • Triplicate Girl
  • Ultra-Boy

Supporting Characters:

• Legion of Substitute Heroes
  • Chlorophyll Kid
  • Fire-Lad
  • Night Girl
  • Polar Boy
  • Stone Boy

Adversaries:

• Elderly Throonians (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

• Science Police
• James Bannon (Single appearance)
• Tim Vare (Single appearance)

Locations:

• Metropolis (30th Century)
  • Legion Clubhouse
• Throon

Items:

• Legion Flight Belt

Vehicles:

• Mark II Star Cruiser
• Mark III Star Cruiser
  
  

Synopsis for "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"

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"

Featured Characters:

• Superboy

Supporting Characters:

Adversaries:

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Synopsis for "Superboy's Best Friend"

Story reprinted from Superboy #77

Notes

• "The Legion's Suicide Squad!" is reprinted in Best of DC #44 and Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #3.

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Recommended Reading

• Legion of Super-Heroes Recommended Reading

• 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)

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