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Comic Title: Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2020
On Sale Date:
June 2, 2020 Direct Market Date June 3, 2020
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Direct Market Date June 3, 2020
Source: DC Previews, #18, 19
Direct Market Date June 3, 2020
Source: Previews, #373
Cover Price: $99.99
Page Count: 688
Editor: Robin Wildman
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Title: "Mordru the Merciless"
Pages: 24
Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-1)
Writer: James Shooter
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Jack Abel
Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #369 (1968)
Feature Character(s)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #368; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Mon-El (disguised as Bob Cobb in this story; last appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #117; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #148; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Duo Damsel (disguised as Marie Elkins in this story; last appearance in Adventure Comics #368; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Shadow Lass (real name Tasmia Mallor revealed; disguised as Betsy Norcross in this story; last appearance in Adventure Comics #368; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Saturn Girl (appears in flashback only; last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
- Cosmic Boy (appears in flashback only; last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
- Sun Boy (appears in flashback only; last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
Villain(s)
- Mordru (first appearance; last appearance in Tales of the Legion #315; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- King Carter and his gang (Kelly, Slob, and Gus named; no further appearances)
- An unnamed human-fly crook (no further appearances)
Guest Appearance(s)
- Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #148; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #148; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #148; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Lewis Lang (last appearance in Superboy #137; next appearance in Superboy #160)
- Mrs. Lang (last appearance in Superboy #137; next appearance in Superboy #164)
- Police Chief Parker (first name Douglas revealed; last appearance in Superboy #137; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
- Leah Parker (Chief Parker's wife; next appearance in Adventure Comics #370)
Other Character(s)
- Several Smallville students and residents (Mike and McCarthy named; no further appearances)
Flashback Appearance(s)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
- Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Superboy #123)
- Triplicate Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
- Mon-El (last appearance in Adventure Comics #336; next appearance in Adventure Comics #337)
Comments:
Part II:"Mordru and the Mob"
This story contains a flashback to the Legion's first untold battle with Mordru. The flashback occurs while Saturn Girl was the Legion's leader between Adventure Comics #336 and Adventure Comics #337.
This story continues in Adventure Comics #370.
Synopsis:
Four Legionnaires on duty at their headquarters, Superboy, Mon-El, Shadow Lass, and Duo Damsel, hastily use their Time Cube to escape to 20th century Smallville, as Mordru, the Dark Lord, pursues them. As a new Legionnaire, Shadow Lass had been exploring the sub-basement in which Mordru was imprisoned in a vault, and tried to open it. Mon-El spied her, warned her to stop, and told her Mordru's story.
The villain hailed from Zerox, the Sorcerers' Planet, and after mastering the ultimate mystic powers, made himself master of that world and conquered his sector of the galaxy. Saturn Girl was Legion leader at the time, and when Mordru attacked Earth, the team's battle with him seemed futile, until she directed Superboy and Mon-El to imprison him in an airless steel block, thus depriving him of his powers. He fell into a coma, and has remained in that state since.
However, Shadow Lass's tampering has caused air to seep into the block and revive him. Now forced to flee, the four Legionnaires quickly realize that Mordru will soon find them, and decide to adopt secret identities in hopes of eluding him.
With the assistance of Superboy's foster parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, Mon-El resumes the guise of Bob Cobb, the identity he had used when he first met Superboy. Duo Damsel becomes Marie Elkins, a supposed second cousin of Smallville Police Chief Parker's wife, with whom she stays, and Shadow Lass becomes Betsy Norcross, an exchange student who resides with Lana Lang's family.
Mordru arrives, and causes a deep shadow to penetrate the town to find the missing Legionnaires. In doing this he puts Lana under his control and sees everything she does. As the days pass, the heroes stay as hidden as possible, and try to come up with a plan, while Mordru does his best to flush them out.
Then, a week after their arrival, "King" Carter and his gangsters come to Smallville and take it over. Because of Mordru, the young heroes fear to use their powers to stop them. Instead, with Jonathan Kent leading, the townspeople are convinced to stand against the mob and fight back. The crooks are overcome, and this gives the Legionnaires the moral resolve to do the same with Mordru.
As they resume their costumes and gather in an alley behind the Kent home, Lana spies them from her window. Mordru now finds them, and suddenly materializes before the heroes.
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