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Issue Details

Issue #312
Published September 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Reader suggestions for new Legionnaires include Weight Wizard and Blockade Boy.

Cover Details - "The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Sun Boy; Lightning Lass; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Superboy; Lightning Lad]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein; John Forte (heads)
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes John Forte inks info by Bob Bailey, 2005-03-19 (Per Sandell ed.)
Reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007) [black and white]; in Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([June] 2008)

7 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Mon-El; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lass; Chameleon Boy]; Proty
Synopsis The Legionnaires search to find a way to revive Lightning Lad.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #403; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007) [black and white]; in Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([June] 2008)

6 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Bravest Legionnaire!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Mon-El; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lass; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad]; Proty
Synopsis Proty sacrifices his life to revive Lightning Lad.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Proty dies; Lightning Lad revived
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #403; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([April] 2007) [black and white]; in Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([June] 2008)

10 page Superboy story "Lana Lang, Hollywood Star"

Characters Superboy; Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent
Synopsis Lana makes a movie in which she's a jungle queen
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Letters Joe Letterese
Editing Mort Weisinger

Half page Super-Turtle filler "untitled"

Characters Super-Turtle
Synopsis Super-Turtle rescues a paratrooper, puts out a forest fire, and rescues a woman whose heel is caught in a grate.
Genre Gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff