Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 4 HC
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 4 HC
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Artist: Adam T. Hughes

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Title: "The Bizarro-Legion"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Jim Mooney
Letterer: David Huffine

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #329 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Bizarro-Superboy (not to be confused with the original Bizarro-Superboy who appeared in Superboy #68; no further appearances)
  • The Legion of Stupor-Bizarros (Bizarro-Lightning Lad, Bizarro-Invisible Kid, Bizarro-Chameleon Boy, Bizarro-Brainiac 5, Bizarro-Saturn Girl, Bizarro-Cosmic Boy, Bizarro Ultra-Boy, and Bizarro-Mon-El; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • An unnamed Science police officer, an Astro-Salvage Crew, the inhabitants of the "Paradise Planet", and Monster of the Vanishing World (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

  • Time Trapper (in flashback)
  • Bizarro (the original Bizarro-Superboy from Superboy #68; in flashback)
  • The Wolfman, Dracula, and the Mummy (on a poster)
  • The inhabitants of Bizarro World (in flashbacks)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Mad, Mad, Mad Bizarro-Legion"

This issue contains a text feature: "Know Your Legionnaires".

The Science Police are referred to as the Interstellar Police in this story.

Following this story, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, and Sun Boy are transported to the 20th century by the Lord of Time to do battle with Karate Kid in Karate Kid #12 and Karate Kid #13.

Synopsis:
At a Legion meeting, Brainiac 5 demonstrates the flight-rings he has invented, which will allow the members to discard their cumbersome flying belts. The meeting is suddenly interrupted by Bizarro-Superboy, who has come to join the Legion. Hoping to rid themselves of him, the heroes vote him down, and he joyfully returns to his square Bizarro World.

There he uses his duplicator-ray, focused on a monitor picture of five Legionnaires, to create unliving, imperfect duplicates of Brainiac 5, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Chameleon Boy, and Invisible Kid, all of whom pass wacky initiation tests to become the Legion of Stupor-Bizarros.

The Super-Heroes and the rest of the galaxy soon become aware of the new group, as the Bizarro-Legionnaires steal the radio from a stranded Interstellar Police craft, and reconstruct a resort in the image of their Bizarro World. Meanwhile, Bizarro-Superboy creates Bizarro versions of Cosmic Boy, Mon-El, and Ultra Boy, and decides that their real purpose should be to create emergencies, not solve them. After planting a bomb inside the planet Rxzm (which is dealt with by the Legion) and destroying repaired space vessels, the Bizarros return to their world to be confronted by the Super-Heroes.

Bizarro-Superboy tells the Legionnaires he has a Kryptonite ray weapon aimed toward Superboy, and forces them to surrender. When the Boy of Steel arrives, he is ordered to squeeze diamonds into coal, the Bizarros' most prized possession, or his comrades will die. Since super-squeezing diamonds only creates diamond dust, this appears to be an impossible task. His second attempt is successful, however, and the ecstatic Bizarros release the heroes and agree to disband their Legion.

Back on Earth, Superboy explains that Element Lad had used his power to change the carbon in the diamonds into charcoal while Superboy squeezed it. Relieved, the heroes express hope that the Bizarro-Legion never returns.

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