Adventure Comics #315 is an issue of the series Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1963.
Synopsis for "The Legionnaires Super-Contest!"
While the Legion of Super-Heroes is attending a law enforcement convention, the Legion the Substitute Heroes fills in for them while they are absent. The Substitutes save a rocket from crashing, their deed is seen by Superboy's x-ray vision. With their existence revealed to the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legion recognizes them as rejected Legion applicants and the Legion decides to give them another opportunity to apply for membership.
Each Substitute is sent on a different mission along with members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, to observe and take over if the Substitute gets in over their head. The Substitutes do well, but Stone Boy's plan to rescue a group of people from marauding space animals fails, and he forfeits his chance by asking Saturn Girl to save the civilians with her telepathic powers. In the end, Stone Boy's awarded the chance to join the Legion, because giving up his chance for glory to preserve lives convinced them of his heroic character. In the end he turns it down, feeling more at home with the other Substitute Heroes.
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- Sun Woman (Single appearance)
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- Metropolis (30th Century)
- Vannar
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Synopsis for "The Titanic Boy of Steel!"
When Superboy temporarily grows to giant-size after a Red Kryptonite exposure, Colossal Boy lends a hand to safeguard his double identity from Lana Lang.
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Notes
- "The Legionnaires Super-Contest!" is reprinted in Adventure Comics #501 and Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 2.
- This is the final appearance of new Superboy stories in Adventure Comics for now. The Superboy feature becomes reprints. New Superboy stories return in Adventure Comics #453. Superboy does continue to appear in the Legion of Super-Heroes stories.
Trivia
- This issue published a letter by future Superman writer and editor E. Nelson Bridwell.
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