Best of DC #33
Best of DC #33
Cover Credits
Penciller: Keith Giffen
Inker: Mike DeCarlo

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Title: "The Lone Wolf Legionnaire"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #327 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Karth Arn (an android created by Dr. Mar Londo; impersonates Brin Londo in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • Dr. Mar Londo (Lone Wolf's father; appears only in flashback; dies shortly before this story; no further appearances)
  • An unnamed criminal (convicted of joining the Legion under false pretenses; no further appearances)
  • Two unnamed prison guards (no further appearances)
  • Members of the Interplanetary Circus (no further appearances)
  • An unnamed scientist of planet Zoon (no further appearances)
  • Representatives from planets Krallak and Zoon (no further appearances)
  • Various citizens of Zoon and Krallak (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Youth Who Wasn't Human"

Light Lass's costume emblem changes from a cloud to a feather as of this story.

Synopsis:
The Legionnaires examine their new emergency board, which has screens linked to every world's officials. An official from the planet Zoon calls twice with reports of thefts committed by a superhuman person. Ultra Boy and Lightning Lad fly there to investigate, while Brainiac 5 and Light Lass go to Metropolis's Interplanetary Circus at the request of the Science Police, as some featured beasts may be too dangerous for the public safety.

Brainiac 5 and Light Lass arrive to discover that a Morvennian fear-beast has projected fright into the animals' minds, causing them to panic. As camelphants stampede towards the audience, a young super-strong acrobat appears and quells the beasts. Conferring with the two Legionnaires afterward, the youth tells them that his name is Karth Arn, als known as Lone Wolf, and that he wants no part of their Legion. Their mention of the Zoon robberies upsets him, and Brainiac 5 tells his teammates that he suspects Lone Wolf is the culprit, as Light Lass, who cares for him, protests his innocence. The two, accompanied by Sun Boy, fly to Zoon to pursue Lone Wolf and to confer with Ultra Boy and Lightning Lad.

They overtake Lone Wolf on Zoon, but their Legion Cruiser is sucked into a force beam which will draw them into another dimension, a trap Lone Wolf knows was set for him. He knocks their ship free with his own, and the two fall to the ground. Light Lass rushes to Lone Wolf's aid, but when he regains consciousness, he informs her that he is not human. He then runs away, and a tearful Light Lass relates the news to Brainiac 5 and Sun Boy, who conclude that Lone Wolf must be an android.

Learning that the late Dr. Mar Londo of Zoon had experimented with androids, the heroes meet a youth who claims to be Dr. Londo's son, Brin. He tells them that Dr. Londo had built an army of androids to collect the rare element zuunium, which he believed could give humans super-powers, from the planet's vast caverns. The androids' leader, Karth Arn, was the only one to survive that task and deserted Brin shortly after Dr. Londo's death.

Lone Wolf suddenly arrives for a showdown with Brin who he knows was responsible for nearly trapping the Legionnaires in his dimensional force beam. During the struggle that follows, Brainiac 5 notices the dimensional machine, powered by the stolen space crystals, in Brin's living quarters, and deduces that "Brin Londo" is really the android Karth Arn. Karth Arn confesses that he had inflicted the real Brin with amnesia following Dr. Londo's death and switched identities with him, then stole the dimensional machine and space crystals to use against Brin lest he realize the truth and return.

A happy Brin Londo, now knowing he is really human, is eager to stay with the Legion and tells Light Lass never to call him "Lone Wolf" again.

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