Comic Title: Action Comics #384
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1970
On Sale Date: November 26, 1969 Newsstand Date November 26, 1969
Source: House Ad, Phantom Stranger #5, Page 21

Newsstand Date November 26, 1969
Source: Comic Reader, #75

Copyright Date November 26, 1969
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1970

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Lament for a Legionnaire"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-1)

Writer: James Shooter
Penciller: J. Winslow Mortimer
Inker: Jack Abel

Reprinted In:
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 9 HC (2000)
Showcase Presents:Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 TPB (2010)
Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Action Comics #383; next appearance in Action Comics #385)
• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #162; next appearance in Superboy #163)
• Mon-El (last appearance in Action Comics #382; next appearance in Action Comics #387)
• Ultra Boy (last appearance in Action Comics #382; next appearance in Action Comics #386)
• Element Lad (last appearance in Action Comics #379; next appearance in Action Comics #387)
• Dream Girl (last appearance in Action Comics #379; next appearance in Action Comics #385)
• Karate Kid (last appearance in Action Comics #383; next appearance in Action Comics #385)
• Princess Projectra (last appearance in Action Comics #383; next appearance in Action Comics #387)
• Shadow Lass (last appearance in Action Comics #379; next appearance in Action Comics #392)

Villain(s)

• A group of interdimensional raiders (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Eltro Gand (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The High Commissioner of Daxam (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Dream Girl has a prophetic dream in which she foresees the death and funeral of Mon-El, which will take place in five days. Once Mon-El learns of the prediction, he resists his teammates' efforts to help him escape his fate. When the High Commissioner of Daxam proposes that Mon-El hide in an impenetrable sanctuary on his homeworld until the day of his predicted demise has passed, he refuses, instead choosing to go on a mission like any other Legionnaire.

Karate Kid sends him to the Posvar asteroid complex to investigate the wrecked Posvar III probe. Days pass, and Mon-El finally returns to Legion Headquarters, but he has apparently lost his earlier confidence. That night, Superboy sneaks into his room but is surprised by his friend, who realizes that the Boy of Steel had planned to kidnap him and face his death in disguise.

On the fatal day, while his comrades are trapped inside a force-shield surrounding their headquarters, Mon-El fights and drives off a band of interdimensional raiders. He then reveals that he is actually Eltro Gand, a descendant of Mon-El's older brother. He succeeded at what Superboy had tried to do, overpowering the real Mon-El in the Posvar asteroid belt, drugging him with a super-sedative on a nearby planetoid, and taking his place. Dream Girl's prophecy has apparently been foiled, and Eltro Gand takes the Legion to their comrade.

When they arrive, however, they find the real Mon-El dead, since the serum he takes to counteract his vulnerability to lead has worn off, and traces of lead in the surrounding rocks have killed him. Grief-stricken, Eltro Gand snatches up Mon-El's body and takes it back to Legion Headquarters, where he places both of them in an exchanger, a device similar in function to the process once used to restore Lightning Lad. The others arrive just as he gives his life-force to Mon-El. Because of Eltro Gand's sacrifice, the hero lives again.