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Issue Details

Issue #0
Published April 2009
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 36
Editing Elisabeth V. Gehrlein; Sean Ryan (Associate Editor)
Notes The cover is an homage to Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247. On the original cover and in the original story (reprinted inside this issue) Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy. Also on this new cover the Legionnaires are in variations of their more familiar classic costumes, not the costumes they wear in the story reprinted in this issue.

Cover Details

Characters Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Superboy
Genre Superhero
Pencils Aaron Lopresti (signed)
Inks Aaron Lopresti (signed)
Colors Brian Miller (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes The cover is an homage to Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247. On the original cover and in the original story (reprinted inside this issue) Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy. Also on this new cover the Legionnaires are in variations of their more familiar classic costumes, not the costumes they wear in the story reprinted in this issue.

12 page Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy story "The Legion of Super-Heroes"

Characters Superboy; Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad [as Lightning Boy]; Saturn Girl]; Jonathan Kent (cameo)
Synopsis Three teens from the future offer Superboy membership in their super-hero club. But when Superboy fails to complete three simple tasks, the Legionnaires pretend to reject him, until they reveal that the three tasks were merely initiation pranks which proved he is a good sport.
Genre Superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Editing Mort Weisnger (Original Editor)
Notes Reprint of the first appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy in this story. Several other unidentified Legionnaires appear in the story, including one colored to imply he is Brainiac 5. The Legionnaires are not yet in their classic costumes in this story.
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247

6 page Legion of Super-Heroes; Scar story "Origins & Omens"

Characters Scar; Lex Luthor; Brainiac; Superboy [Conner Kent]
Synopsis As Scar reviews The Book of the Black, she thinks about Lex Luthor. Lex, assigned by General Lane to try and unlock the secrets in Brainiac, believes he has control over the villain, but Brainiac surprises Lex by re-activating and declaring that now they will be working together as a team. Only Scar knows that Luthor will be saved from this alliance with Brainiac by the currently deceased Superboy.
Genre Superhero
Script Geoff Johns
Pencils Francis Manapul
Inks Francis Manapul
Colors Brian Buccellato
Letters Steve Wands [as Swands]