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Cover Credits |
Penciller: Curt Swan Inker: George Klein |
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Comic Title: Adventure Comics #363
Publisher: DC
(National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1967
On Sale Date:
October 31, 1967 Newsstand Date October 31, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Brave and the Bold #75, Page 31
Copyright Date October 31, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Story |
Title: "Black Day for the Legion"
Pages: 23
Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-1)
Writer: James Shooter
Artist: Peter Costanza
Reprinted In:
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 7 HC (1997)
Showcase Presents:Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 TPB (2009)
Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 HC (2020)
Feature Character(s)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Cosmic Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #365)
- Saturn Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Lightning Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #360; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Duo Damsel (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #367)
- Phantom Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Chameleon Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Invisible Kid (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Colossal Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #361; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Star Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Sun Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Bouncing Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #371)
- Ultra Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Matter-Eater Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #360; next appearance in Adventure Comics #374)
- Lightning Lass (Light Lass; last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Dream Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #368)
- Karate Kid (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Adventure Comics #364)
- Mon-El (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Superboy #147)
- Princess Projectra (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #117)
- Element Lad (last appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #106; next appearance in Superboy #147)
- Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Superboy #143)
Villain(s)
- Dr. Mantis Morlo (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; next appearance in Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes #248)
- Morlo's chemoids (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; no further appearances)
- Gorn (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; no further appearances)
- Morlo's android double (last appearance in Adventure Comics #362; no further appearances)
- Two other Morlo androids (no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Professor Krondo and the inhabitants of Daxam (no further appearances)
- The High Assembly of Naltor (Horon and Pallo Jaxon named; no further appearances)
- Inhabitants of Naltor (no further appearances)
Cameo Appearance(s)
- Time Trapper (an illusion)
- Doctor Regulus (an illusion)
- The Hunter (Otto Orion; an illusion)
Comments:
Part II:"Target... Earth"
This story is continued from Adventure Comics #362.
Synopsis:
Fighting back, the Legionnaires defeat Morlo's Chemoids and capture the villain, while Superboy destroys the smog-maker. However, Morlo breaks free and leaps off the platform into a dense forest below, where Superboy's X-ray vision fails to spot him.
Meanwhile, Mon-El's party, including Element Lad, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, Colossal Boy, and Lightning Lad, approaches Daxam, and is greeted by a deadly rain of alkali hailstones and ball lightning. Similar chemical storms have razed all major cities there, and the Legion learns that Mantis Morlo, operating from an undersea base in the Sea of Ornal, is responsible. The heroes penetrate his base and destroy all his weaponry, but the villain escapes in a submarine.
At the same time, Dream Girl and her comrades, Star Boy, Invisible Kid, Ultra Boy, Matter-Eater Lad, Chameleon Boy, and Phantom Girl, greet the High Assembly of her world, Naltor. They inform the Legionnaires that artificially induced food contaminates have given the populace bad dreams, and have thrown them into a panic. Ultra Boy flies into space, where he uses his penetra-vision to "peel" Naltor, layer by layer, until he finally finds the base of Mantis Morlo at its very core. The Legion rushes to capture him, but he succeeds in escaping. Chameleon Boy, whose antennae tingled when he stood near Morlo, stops the others from pursuing him.
During all of this, the real Dr. Morlo is safely ensconced in his orbital laboratory. He gloats over his victories, having used Chemoid doubles of himself to create disasters to lure the Legion to some of their home worlds. His real target is Earth, and he paints a target on the globe, then launches a bomb to burn the planet to a cinder.
The Legion arrives en masse to inform him that he has actually destroyed a mock Earth. Chameleon Boy had deduced Morlo's scheme when his antennae, which record precise details of people or objects, detected subtle differences in the Morlo android. He then masqueraded as Morlo's Chemoid assistant, Gorn, and secretly aimed his weapon at the fake Earth, which Superboy and Mon-El had hastily constructed.
Morlo, crushed, is taken into custody.
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