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Adventure Comics, #500 Direct

Published: June 1983

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Adventure Comics #500

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The original Silver Age Legionnaires see their modern counterparts.

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Adventure Comics No. 500
Story 1 1 page
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Inside front cover.

The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire!
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Following the death of Lightning Lad, the LSH recruits new member Legionnaire Lemon, or Marvel Lad, who turns out to be Mon-El, finally cured of his weakness to lead and able to leave the Phantom Zone to join the Legion full-time.

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The Legion of Substitute Heroes!
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A group of rejected applicants band together as the Legion of Substitute Heroes and thwart the Plant Men's scheme to take over the Earth.

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The Secret Power of the Mystery Super-Hero!
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The Legion recruits Element Lad, who is the last survivor of Trom, to fight the space pirate Roxxas, who killed the rest of the Trommians. He wants to keep his super-power to transform elements a secret, so he joins as Mystery Lad.

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The Return of Lightning Lad!
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Lightning Lad's sister impersonates her dead brother and later joins the Legion as Lightning Lass.

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[Part I] The Legion of Super-Monsters!
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Legion of Super-Heroes reject Jungle King tries to get revenge with his super-beasts.

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Part II: The Legion's Super-Showdown!
Story 7 8 pages superhero
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Jungle King and his super-beasts are defeated by the Legion.

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[Part I] The Doom of the Super-Heroes!
Story 8 9 pages superhero
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The Legion of Super-Heroes fight Mask Man, who begins killing them one by one.

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Part II: Last Stand of the Legion!
Story 9 8 pages superhero
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Mask Man continues to kill the Legionnaires, until he is revealed as a 30th Century descendant of Mr. Mxyzptlk. Superboy defeats him, and the dead Legionnaires are restored as all the effects of his magic are undone.

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[Part I] The War Between the Substitute Heroes and the Legionnaires!
Story 10 8 pages superhero
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The Legionnaires are angry and rude every time the Substitute Legion tries to help.

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Part II: The Duel of the Legions!
Story 11 9 pages superhero
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The Substitute Legion battle alien impostors from the planet Zyzan who have imprisoned the real Legion.

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Part I: The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires!
Story 12 8 pages superhero
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The Legionnaires try to find a way to revive Lightning Lad.

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Part II: The Bravest Legionnaire!
Story 13 7 pages superhero
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Proty sacrifices his life to revive Lightning Lad.

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The World of Doomed Olsens!
Story 14 9 pages superhero
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Jimmy is taken by The Collector to the world Gion-El, which is seemingly inhabited by duplicates of him in the forms into which he has been transformed in the past. But when Jimmy realizes he is being hoaxed, the Legionnaires reveal that he has passed his initiation test and they bring him to the 30th century to officially be made an honorary member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Part I: The Condemned Legionnaires!
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The girl Legionnaires are struck by a mysterious Crimson Virus. Satan Girl tries to take their place, but attacks the girls when rejected. Supergirl follows.

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Part II: The Secret of Satan Girl!
Story 16 8 pages superhero
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Satan Girl is defeated by the Super-Pets and revealed to be an evil Red Kryptonite duplicate of Supergirl.

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The First Five Hundred Issues
Story 17 3 pages non-fiction
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Nelson goes over the history of Adventure Comics and its predecessor titles, New Comics and New Adventure Comics. He covers several of the features that were a part of it, including Federal Men, Nadir, Sandman, Hourman, Starman, Manhunter, Superboy, Green Arrow, Johnny Quick, Aquaman, Legion of Super-Heroes, Congorilla, Tales of the Bizarro World, Supergirl, Black Orchid, Justice Society, a new Starman, and Dial H for Hero (among others). Includes six cover reprints from the series.

Featuring The Story Behind the Stories

Story 18 1 page
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Levitz discusses the Legion stories reprinted in this issue.

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Inside back cover.

10 Legion of Super-Heroes Stories! (1)
Story 19 1 page superhero
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The modern Legionnaires see their Silver Age counterparts.

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Back cover. Illustration and promo for stories in the issue. Art is mirror-image of front cover, with the positions of the "classic" and "modern" Legionnaires switched.