Adventure Comics, #365
Published: February 1968
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Escape of the Fatal Five!
Featuring Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Characters
- Shadow Lass
- Cosmic Boy
- Karate Kid
- Superboy
- Brainiac 5 (all as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Tharok
Credits
- Pencils: Neal Adams
- Inks: Neal Adams
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
1st Neal Adams cover on this title.
Escape of the Fatal Five!
Featuring Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Storyline
The Legion is sent to Talok VIII to investigate its sudden belligerence, with its native heroine Shadow Lass, and fall into separate traps designed for each one of them.
Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Karate Kid
- Brainiac 5
- Superboy
- Cosmic Boy]
- Shadow Lass (introduction)
Credits
- Script: Jim Shooter
- Pencils: Jim Shooter
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Jeff Osgood
- Letters: Morris Waldinger (uncertain)
Part II: Mocked by the Master!
Featuring Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Storyline
The Legionnaires escape their traps, but their energy in doing so powers the Fatal Five's escape from the dimension into which they were flung after their last encounter with the Legion.
Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy
- Brainiac 5
- Karate Kid
- Cosmic Boy]
- Shadow Lass
- Fatal Five [Tharok
- Emerald Empress
- Persuader
- Validus
- Mano]
Credits
- Script: Jim Shooter
- Pencils: Jim Shooter
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Morris Waldinger (uncertain)
Story Notes
Story continues in the following issue.
The Origin and Powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes!
Featuring Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Storyline
Origins and powers of the Legionnaires, Subs, and Pets
Characters
- Phantom Girl
- Duo Damsel
- Brainiac 5
- Lightning Lad
- Bouncing Boy
- Invisible Kid
- Shrinking Violet
- Cosmic Boy
- Chameleon Boy
- Saturn Girl
- Colossal Boy
- Sun Boy
- Superboy
- Light Lass
- Star Boy
- Mon-El
- Ultra Boy
- Matter-Eater Lad
- Supergirl
- Element Lad
- Elastic Lad [Jimmy Olsen]
- Karate Kid
- Dream Girl
- Princess Projectra
- Ferro Lad
- Insect Queen [Lana Lang]
- Kid Psycho (all as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
- Proty II
- Krypto
- Beppo
- Comet
- Streaky (all as the Legion of Super-Pets)
- Polar Boy
- Fire Lad
- Night Girl
- Stone Boy
- Chlorophyll Kid
- Color Kid (all as the Legion of Substitute-Heroes)
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Pencils: Al Plastino
- Inks: George Klein
- Inks: Al Plastino
Story Notes
First two pages were originally printed in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #4, then reprinted with some alterations in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #316 with third and fourth pages, all of which were reprinted here with further alterations by Al Plastino, most notably in the Light Lass and Duo Damsel panels, and with the fifth and sixth pages added.