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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published June 1990
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 1.75 USD; 2.25 CAD; 0.70 GBP
Pages 52
Editing Mark Waid (co-editor); Michael Eury (co-editor)

Cover Details

Characters Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Big Words; Gabby; Scrapper; Tommy; Flip]; Guardian; Angry Charlie; Bouncing Boy; Shining Knight
Genre Superhero
Pencils Karl Kesel
Inks Karl Kesel

2 page Bouncing Boy story "The Not-So-Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy"

Characters Bouncing Boy [Chuck Taine]; Cosmic Boy (cameo); Saturn Girl (cameo); Dr. F'toora (cameo)
Synopsis A lab assistant drinks a super-plastic fluid by mistake, becomes super-bouncy, and gets rejected and then accepted as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Genre Superhero
Script Ty Templeton
Pencils Ty Templeton
Inks Ty Templeton
Letters Ty Templeton

17 page Newsboy Legion story "Secrets of the Cadmus D. N. A. Project"

Characters Newsboy Legion (younger clones) [Gabby; Flip; Tommy; Big Words; Scrapper]; Newsboy Legion (adults) [Gabby [John Gabrielli]; Tommy Thompkins; Big Words; Scrapper; Flip [Walter Johnson, Jr.]]; Guardian; Dabney Donovan; Dubblex (flashback, cameo); Angry Charlie; Dragorin (cameo)
Synopsis The adult Newsboy Legion discuss the history of Project Cadmus. Their younger clones explore an underground world beneath the Project, where they meet DNAlien Angry Charlie and mad scientist Dabney Donovan.
Genre superhero
Script Karl Kesel
Pencils Karl Kesel
Inks Karl Kesel
Colors Tom Ziuko
Letters John Costanza
Notes This story shows the origins of the original Guardian and Newsboy Legion, and their DNA descendents in the contemporary Superman books.

19 page Silent Knight story "The Silent Knight"

Characters Silent Knight [Brian]; Lady Celia Penbrook; King Edwin Penbrook; Sir Oswald; Sir Grot; Slasher
Synopsis When young, stuttering stable boy Brian is bullied, King Edwin orderes Sir Grot to train him in self-defense. King Edwin is slain in a joust by his evil brother Oswald, who assumes the throne. Brian finds King Edwin's enchanted armor, puts it on, saves Lady Celia from being killed, and allows Oswald to think that he is being haunted by the ghost of his brother.
Genre period; adventure
Script Jan Strnad
Pencils John Koch
Inks Gary Martin
Colors Tom McCraw
Letters John Workman
Editing Mark Waid