Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1964.
Synopsis for Legion of Super-Heroes: "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes!"
While capturing the criminal brain Arto from the planet Kahnn, Matter-Eater Lad and Triplicate Girl intercept a mysterious space craft. Landing near the Legion club house with the mystery ship, the two Legionaries are shocked to find that it is piloted by Lex Luthor. A Luthor with a full head of hair that claims to be from a time before he became Superboy's arch-nemesis.
Luthor has come to ask the Legion to help him from becoming evil, however the Legion is unaware that this is really the evil Luthor who has come to the 30th Century to defeat Superboy and his allies. Using his disintegration ray (really a Phantom Zone Projector) he manages to fool most of the Legion members and banish them to the Phantom Zone before they can stop him.
However, Luthor does not anticipate that Mon-El spent a long time in the Phantom Zone and is able to subliminally influence Luthor into releasing the Legion. The Legion then swiftly defeat Luthor on live television, and destroy his Phantom Zone gun. The defeated and humiliated Luthor manages escape back to his own time, to plot anew.
Appearing in Legion of Super-Heroes: "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes!"
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Antagonists:
- Atro (Single appearance)
- Lex Luthor
Locations:
- Metropolis (30th Century)
- Khann
- Yorrg
- Rygor
- Phantom Zone
Items:
Vehicles:
- Lex's Space-Time Cylinder
Synopsis for Superboy: "The Day Superboy Was a Coward!"
This story is reprinted from Superboy #72.
Superboy recalls a time early in his crime-fighting career when he thought he had killed a crook by miscalculating the force of his punch, and almost gave up being Superboy as a result.
Appearing in Superboy: "The Day Superboy Was a Coward!"
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Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Uniform Gang
Other Characters:
- Tom Keating
- a gym coach
- Mr. Danberry
- Pug Waters
- police
- Jor-El
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Notes
- "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes!" is reprinted in The Best of DC #57, Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 3, and Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Legion of Super-Heroes Recommended Reading
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 2)
- The Legion (Volume 1)
- Legion Lost (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 2)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 3)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 4)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 5)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 6)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 7)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 8)
- Legionnaires (Volume 1)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Superboy Recommended Reading
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 1)
- Superboy (Volume 2)
- Superboy (Volume 4)
- Superboy (Volume 5)
- Superboy (Volume 6)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Superboy and the Ravers (Volume 1)
- Young Justice (Volume 1)
- Young Justice (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 4)