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

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Title: "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #326 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Queen Azura and her subjects (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

  • Students at the Science Police Academy (no further appearances)
  • An instructor at the Hall of Infinite Knowledge (no further appearances)
  • Two unnamed scientists (no further appearances)
  • A Gowampi Trigocerus Lympodiary (no further appearances)
  • Security officers, performers, and attendees at the Interplanetary Fair (no further appearances)
  • Citizens of 30th Century Metropolis (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Triumph of the Super-Heroines"

Lightning Lass's costume emblem changes from lightning bolts to a cloud as of this story.

This issue contains a half-page text feature: "The Legion Constitution Part Two".

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

Following this story, Shrinking Violet travels to the 20th century to help out Supergirl in the second story of Action Comics #319.

Also following this story, Superboy encounters evil parallel-world counterparts of Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, and Ultra Boy (possibly from Earth-3) in the third story of Superboy #117.

Synopsis:
Saturn Girl summons all the female Legionnaires to the Super-Hero Clubhouse to begin laying plans to destroy the male members. Ultra Boy, Mon-El, Sun Boy, Lightning Lad, Colossal Boy, and Matter-Eater Lad, returning from a mission are diverted elsewhere by Saturn Girl. The remaining male Legionnaires are selected as victims by the various girls, who plan to pair off romantically with each, and kill them at the Interplanetary Fair.

The next day at the fair, Light Lass causes Element Lad to be stranded on a mountain peak, while Triplicate Girl, assisted by Shrinking Violet, splits into three girls who use ring-devices to reduce Invisible Kid, Cosmic Boy, and Brainiac 5 to tiny size, and entombs them inside a matchbox. Saturn Girl lures Superboy into fighting a robot lead creature, which bursts open to reveal deadly Kryptonite. Supergirl teases Chameleon Boy into becomigng phantom-like, then uses a cancellite spray to keep him from changing back, and Phantom Girl tricks Star Boy into making himself super-heavy so that he sinks into the ground.

Back at the Clubhouse, the girls celebrate their success with a wild party. Queen Azura of the planet Femnaz, a world controlled by man-hating women, suddenly appears on their space-monitor and releases them from the super-hypnotic command she'd put them under. She explains that the other male Legionnaires, while on their mission, had saved her people from disaster, and thus changed her attitude toward all males.

Normal once again, the girls release the boys from their traps, and all is explained and forgiven.

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