Issue | #502 |
Published | August 1983 |
Frequency | monthly |
Cover Price | 1.25 USD |
Pages | 100 |
Editing | Nicola Cuti |
Characters | Dream Girl; Sun Boy; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad; Lightning Lass |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Ed Hannigan (signed) |
Inks | Klaus Janson (signed) |
Characters | Plastic Man; Woozy Winks; Chief Branner; Terry Cotta; Trowel [Mason Stucko]; Cindy Block; Brickface |
Synopsis | Plas and Woozy investigate the murder of Alonzo Van Rivett. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Martin Pasko |
Pencils | Joe Staton |
Inks | Bob Smith |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Editing | Len Wein (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #470 (April 1980) |
Characters | Superboy; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Proty II; Colossal Boy (cameo); Lightning Lass (cameo); Invisible Kid (cameo) |
Synopsis | Ultra Boy is revealed to be an escaped convict and flees the Legion. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964) |
Characters | Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Mon-El; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Element Lad; Invisible Kid; Proty II |
Synopsis | Ultra Boy's criminal past is revealed to be a ruse, so that he could infiltrate a pirate band. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 (January 1964) |
Characters | Captain Marvel [also appears as Billy Batson]; Dudley Wright |
Synopsis | Captain Marvel must rescue explorer Dudley Wright from the Hawkmen, a band of winged humans in the Himalayss. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | C. C. Beck |
Inks | C. C. Beck |
Editing | Wendell Crowley (original story) |
Reprinted | from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #143 (April 1953) |
Characters | The Spectre; Jim Corrigan; Narkran; Carstagg Mob |
Synopsis | The Spectre carelessly injures a human, and is set up to be punished in later stories. |
Genre | superhero; occult |
Script | Steve Skeates |
Pencils | Jerry Grandenetti |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Letters | Jerry Grandenetti |
Editing | Julius Schwartz (original story) |
Reprinted | from Spectre, The (DC, 1967 series) #8 (January-February 1969) |
Characters | Aquaman; Aqualad; Mera; Ocean Master |
Synopsis | The Ocean Master tries to warn Aquaman just before the Sea King is teleported to an alien world. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Steve Skeates |
Pencils | Jim Aparo |
Inks | Jim Aparo |
Letters | Jim Aparo |
Editing | Dick Giordano (original story) |
Notes | Aparo draws panel on pg 11 using most of the names of DC staffers as part of the background. |
Reprinted | from Aquaman (DC, 1962 series) #50 (March-April 1970) |
Characters | Zatanna; Zatara; Jeff Sloane; Justice League of America [Hawkman; Elongated Man; Flash [Barry Allen]; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Batman](all in cameo flashback) |
Synopsis | An unseen villain gains control of Zatara and forces him to send Zatanna and Jeff into another dimension. |
Genre | occult; superhero |
Script | Len Wein |
Pencils | Gray Morrow |
Inks | Gray Morrow |
Editing | Joe Orlando (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #413 (December 1971) |
Characters | Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Superboy; Mon-El; Sun Boy; Triplicate Girl; Bouncing Boy; Dream Girl (applicant); Rann Antar (applicant) |
Synopsis | Dream Girl joins, causes Lightning Lass to lose her powers, and has Lightning Lass and Triplicate Girl expelled. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964) |
Characters | Dream Girl; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Star Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Triplicate Girl; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Ultra Boy; Bouncing Boy; Shrinking Violet; Superboy; Lightning Lass [becomes Light Lass]; Chameleon Boy (cameo) |
Synopsis | Dream Girl has more Legionnaires expelled, in order to prevent her prediction of their deaths. The prediction proves false, Dream Girl leaves and the others are reinstated. She has also altered Lightning Lass's powers to the ability to make things super-light. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | John Forte |
Inks | John Forte |
Letters | Milton Snapinn |
Editing | Mort Weisinger (original story) |
Reprinted | from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #317 (February 1964) |
Script | Paul Levitz |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Levitz discusses the two Legion stories reprinted in this issue. |
Characters | Aquaman; Billy Batson; Captain Marvel; Spectre; Zatanna; Jeff Sloane; Plastic Man |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Howard Bender (signed) |
Inks | Larry Mahlstedt (signed) |
Notes | back cover |