Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1983.
Synopsis for Plastic Man: "Carlton Canary"
This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #467.
Plastic Man and Woozy Winks are assigned to bring in a syndicate informer for questioning, which becomes difficult when they learn the train in which they are transporting him is filled with hired killers.
Appearing in Plastic Man: "Carlton Canary"
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- Hired Hitmen (Single appearance)
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- Carlton Canary (Single appearance)
Synopsis for Legion of Super-Heroes: "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy"
This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #301.
The Legion holds an "open audition". They reject a powerless rich kid named Lester Spiffany and an applicant called Storm Boy who fakes his powers with a hidden weather control device. Bouncing Boy is then randomly chosen to tell his origin. After gaining his bouncing powers by accidentally drinking a super-plastic formula, he is rejected for Legion membership. But when Bouncing Boy uses his rubbery properties to ground himself so he can defeat a criminal with an electric shocker, he is invited to join the Legion. His story encourages the new applicants to keep trying.
Appearing in Legion of Super-Heroes: "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy"
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- Unnamed Criminal with electric shocker
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Synopsis for Aquaman: "Come the Revolution"
This story is reprinted from Aquaman #47.
Appearing in Aquaman: "Come the Revolution"
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Synopsis for Captain Marvel: "The World's Maddest Ghost"
This story is reprinted from Captain Marvel Adventures #138.
Sivana tries to bomb Billy's office, but the boy's forewarned by a new invention from Dexter Knox that sounds an alarm whenever the villain's nearby. When Captain Marvel pursues Sivana's helicopter, it crashes into a cliff and the evil scientist dies, but Marvel brings his body back to civilization to ensure he gets a proper burial. Standing over his grave, however, Captain Marvel's shocked when what claims to be Sivana's ghost appears! He claims to want to atone for the evils he committed in life, and lend his genius to Dexter's projects.
Sivana captures both boys and reveals he's still very much alive, faking his death to get their guard down. Before he can finish them off, he's distracted by what sound like police sirens closing in on the property (actually Billy's alarm device, which he threw away when he thought he didn't have to worry about Sivana's attempts on his life anymore). This distraction gives Billy the chance to get his gag off, transform, and capture his archenemy.
Appearing in Captain Marvel: "The World's Maddest Ghost"
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Synopsis for Sandman: "The Man Who Knew All the Answers"
This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #74.
Appearing in Sandman: "The Man Who Knew All the Answers"
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- Hiram Gaunt (First appearance)
- Casino Gang (Single appearance)
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- Ed Porter (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for Legion of Super-Heroes: "Sun-Boy's Lost Powers!"
This story is reprinted from Adventure Comics #302.
Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Sun-Boy make a trip to Metropolis where the people are unveiling the first of a series of statues in honor of the Legion of Super-Heroes. The first statue is revealed to be of Sun-Boy, who has to use his powers to destroy the statue when it begins to topple, threatening to crush spectators of the event. Flying back to headquarters later, Sun-Boy realizes his powers have run out when he cannot use them to illuminate a city going through a black out.
This prompts Sun-Boy to try and restore his powers, using a similar atomic device that first gave him his powers, and later a volcano, however both attempts fail to restore them. When an entomologist visits the Legions base to gift them with insects from other planets, Sun-Boy's powers briefly come back. Later when Ultra-Boy and Superboys arrive for a scheduled meeting, Sun-Boy asks them to help try to restore his powers using a mirror device and both heroes x-ray visions. This attempt also fails. After giving up, Sun-Boy accepts the fact that his powers are gone, and he is asked to resign from the Legion, he cleans out his locker and supplies and leaves.
Later, while watching the Legion in action, Sun-Boy is visited by Bouncing Boy who has come to take his Legion monitor. Later, Kranyak, a villain which Sun-Boy helped incarcerate, learns of the news about Sun-Boy's powers escapes from prison. Reuniting with his gang, Kranyak attacks Sun-Boy to learn if the stories are true. Learning that they are indeed true, Kranyak tells Sun-Boy that he is going to destroy the other Legionaries. Realizing how to finally restore his powers, Sun-Boy travels to the planet Lurna. There he makes a flame-beast blast him with it's flame breath, this miraculously restores his powers.
Sun-Boy then returns to Earth where he stops Kranyak and his gang from crushing the Legion's base with a giant chunk of ice and easily defeats the crook. After Kranyak has been turned over, Sun-Boy explains to the Legion how his powers were restored: That the only way his powers could be restored would be exposure to sufficient heat energy from living creature that has heat-based powers. He goes on to explain he figured it out when he touched a firefly from the planet Lurna, and so went there find a creature with stronger flame powers. He also explains that the reason why his powers weren't restored by Superboy and Ultra Boy is because they are really robots.
This was figured out while Sun-Boy watched the Legion in action and the two heroes were drawn towards Cosmic Boy whenever he used his magnetic powers. When revealed as robots, the Legion checks out their inner workings and learn that they were sent to the future by Ultra Boy and Superboy, who were busy in the 20th Century celebrating the birthday of Pete Ross. The robots were sent to the future to take their place, and they caught caught in a storm during their travel through the time barrier which caused them to forget they were really robots. With all the loose ends tied up, Sun-Boy is welcomed back into the ranks of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Appearing in Legion of Super-Heroes: "Sun-Boy's Lost Powers!"
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- Kranyak (Single appearance)
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- Professor Harding (Single appearance)
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- Metropolis (30th Century)
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Synopsis for Mary Marvel: "The Thanksgiving Thieves"
This story is reprinted from Shazam! #10.
Appearing in Mary Marvel: "The Thanksgiving Thieves"
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- Mrs. Bromfield (First appearance in a DC comic)
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- Thugs (Single appearance)
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- Billy Batson (Mentioned only)
- Freddy Freeman (Mentioned only)
- Sterling Morris (Mentioned only)
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- Christmas (Mentioned only)
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