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Issue Details

Issue #319
Published April 1964
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes last Smallville Mailbag

Cover Details - "The Legion's Suicide Squad!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Brainiac 5; Bouncing Boy; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Ultra Boy; Cosmic Boy; Triplicate Girl; Star Boy]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes last Smallville Mailbag
Reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #3

1 page Bob Hope [public service page] public service announcement "The Golden Rule!"

Characters Bob Hope
Synopsis The Golden Rule is universal
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes inside front cover

9 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part I: The Legion's Suicide Squad!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Element Lad; Sun Boy; Shrinking Violet; Phantom Girl; Mon-El; Superboy; Bouncing Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Triplicate Girl; Invisible Kid; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy]
Synopsis Isolationist planet Throon builds a citadel to keep others away and uses a ray to disable all passing spaceships. The first Legion team selected to take out the ray meets their defeat.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Editing Mort Weisinger
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #44; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #3

9 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "Part II: The Charge of the Substitute Heroes!"

Characters Legion of Substitute-Heroes [Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid; Polar Boy; Stone Boy; Night Girl]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Star Boy; Triplicate Girl; Ultra Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Cosmic Boy; Invisible Kid; Superboy; Brainiac 5; Bouncing Boy; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Element Lad; Phantom Girl; Colossal Boy; Light Lass; Mon-El; Lightning Lad]
Synopsis The next two teams of Legionnaires also fail, but the Subs are able to put an end to the menace of Throon.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn (splash only); ?
Editing Mort Weisinger
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #44; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #3

9 page Superboy story "Superboy's Best Friend"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Jack; Freddy Shaw (intro, dies); Freddy Shaw robot; Mr. Gray (a teacher); Dr. Kenyon; Joe Shaw; Rick Farrow
Synopsis Freddy Shaw becomes Clark Kent's best friend and is let in on his secret identity as Superboy. Freddy proceeds to blab to his ex-convict half-brother Joe and his buddy Rick Farrow and finally in his last few hours to anyone who was close to his death bed. All of Freddy's blabbing was caused by his brain fever delirium.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes A "Hall of Fame Classic". Writer was listed as Leo Dorfman, but the original had Robert Bernstein; confirmed by Bob Hughes that Bernstein is the author (2009-01-03 by Allen Ross).
Reprinted from Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #77 (December 1959).