Best of DC #57
Best of DC #57
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Artist: Patrick R. Broderick

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Title: "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #325 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Lex Luthor (last appearance in Superboy #115; next appearance in Superboy #121)
  • The Brain-Lords of Khann (Atro, Incarno, and Mog named; no further appearances)
  • Inhabitants of planet Khann (Demo the Dreadful named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • The Chameleon Boy and Proty II of a parallel dimension (no further appearances)
  • The inhabitants of 30th century Atlantis, planet Rygor, two unnamed planets, and lizard-people of Yorgg (no further appearances)
  • A Gyrak (a creature of planet Venus; no further appearances)
  • Unnamed circus animals of Titan (misidentified as Saturn in this story; no further appearances)
  • Natives of a tropical island and their intended victim, and an unnamed space pirate (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Super-Vengeance of Lex Luthor"

Synopsis:
Khann, a world inhabited only be criminals, is a run by strange beings known as the Brain-Lords. Matter-Eater Lad and Triplicate Girl journey there hoping to capture the chief lord, Atro, and take him to Earth for punishment. During their attempt, Atro and the other Brain-Lords alert the populance, who try to prevent their escape. A strange craft suddenly appears to save them, and all return to the Super-Hero Clubhouse on Earth. There their mysterious rescuer reveals himself to be a young Lex Luthor, who has apparently come visiting from the 20th century before the tragic accident that turned him criminal.

The Legion vows not to tell Lex of his fate, and attempts to entertain him instead. Mon-El and Light Lass inadvertently reveal the secret, however, and Lex is informed of his destiny. Since they cannot alter history, Lex leaves them, only to secretly double back and snatch away the wig which had disguised his baldness. His previous attitude was a charade, and his real goal is to ingratiate himself with the heroes, and then kill them.

Supposedly reconstructing a dissolver-ray he saw on display in the Clubhouse, Lex summons various Legionnaires to different locations, and then disintegrates them with the ray. Actually, he has built a disguised Phantom Zone projector instead. From inside the Zone, Mon-El instructs his fellow members to use mental commands to force Lex to release them. This occurs on television before a galaxy-wide audience, and the heroes destroy the projector. They then allow Lex to return to his own era in humiliation, a laughingstock on hundreds of worlds.

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