Comic Title: Showcase Presents Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: April 16, 2008 Direct Market Date April 9, 2008
Source: Previews, #232

Direct Market Date April 16, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Super-Moby Dick of Space"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: John Forte
Inker: George Klein

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #332 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #334; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #85)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #334; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #85)
• Lightning Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #331; next appearance in Adventure Comics #333)
• Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #334; next appearance in Superboy #121)
• Colossal Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #330; next appearance in Adventure Comics #333)
• Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Adventure Comics #334; next appearance in Adventure Comics #333)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #334; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #85)
• Ultra Boy (origin retold; last appearance in Adventure Comics #330; next appearance in Adventure Comics #335)

Villain(s)

• The Super-Moby Dick (a space-beast; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Lanphier, another unnamed doctor, four unnamed soldiers of fortune, a televisor newsman, a group of freightship crewmen, and mineral people of Thanar asteroid (no further appearances)
• Space Patrol officers and an energy-beast (in flashback to Ultra Boy's origin; no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Cosmic Quest of Lightning Lad"

Following this story, Jimmy Olsen visits the Legion briefly in the second story of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #85.

Synopsis:
A colossal whale-like space-beast attacks an ore-bearing freightship. Lightning Lad answers the ship's distress call and tracks the beast to a nearby asteroid. When he uses his lightning power, however, it reflects off the monster's hide and returns tinged with poison, striking his right arm. The beast flees, and Lightning Lad passes out.

Waking up in a hospital room to find that a surgeon, Dr. Lanphier, has replaced his poisoned arm with a robot limb to save his life, a bitter, brooding Lightning Lad vows to hunt the creature down and kill it.

Superboy, Ultra Boy, and other Legionnaires attempt to capture the so-called "Super-Moby Dick of Space", but fail. Now fully recovered, but obsessed with the Super-Moby Dick, Lightning Lad takes charge of a team of Legionnaires, including Dr. Lanphier as an authority on space creatures, to track down the monster.

After two fruitless encounters with the Super-Moby Dick, Lightning Lad leaves the others to meet the beast alone on the World of Dead Robots. There, with a device Dr. Lanphier had attached to his robot arm, he uses his lightning to reduce the Super-Moby Dick to its normal tiny size.

As the others arrive, he tells them that Dr. Lanphier had scientifically increased the creature's size some time earlier. Lightning Lad, now over his hatred, absolves the doctor of all blame for his condition, and is left with the hope of having a living right arm again someday.