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I figured it out. In the late seventies there was the "Unknown Crisis". *poof* Ultra Boy can fly and Karate Kid can detect any weakness.
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In Adv. 358 Ultra Boy flies without a flight ring. He says he's going to switch to ultra speed and "hope those metal mammoths are too heavy to fly." So I think flight was a function of his ultra speed.
He also tells Superboy in Adv. 361 that his flight ring is damaged and he can't fly and use his other powers at the same time so Superboy tells him to make himself invulnerable and he throws him at a falling boulder.
I'd have to look it up to make sure but in Adv. 316 when he is expelled, I think he's shown flying without a flight belt.
Those are the only early instances I can think of off the top of my head.
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Interesting. Well, I'd say that pretty much establishes the ability.
It's still curious that it's never listed among his abilties in the 60s, however.
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Okay, I just checked Adv. 316, and I think it supports your "function of super-speed" theory. In one panel, he's shown tossing several Legionnaires around with super-strength, but when they decide to call in Mon-El, he thinks "I'll switch me ultra-energy to super-speed and get away!"
The next panel shows him, however, flying with Mon-El in pursuit.
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I did some more checking last night. In Adv. 310, Ultra Boy is shown wearing a flight belt and doesn't use any powers.
In Adv. 314, which I believe is the first issue in which Ultra Boy displays multiple powers, he does indeed fly without a belt.
I did check Adv. 316 and reached the same conclusion as EDE from the panels he mentions: Flight is a funciton of his super speed.
One thing has always puzzled me. In Superboy #117, "The Five Legion Traitors" Ultra Boy and 4 other members from a parallel universe visit Superboy in Smallville. In every panel where they are shown flying, 2 other members are carrying Ultra Boy. Everyone wears flight belts except Ultra Boy. Why didn't he have a belt? Or why didn't he just fly under his own power?
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Wasn't it mentioned or at least implied in TMK somewhere that Jo might have all kinds of crazy powers when he channels his ultra energy throughout his body. I always understood that when Roxxas blew him up, he was somehow able to unintentionally travel back in time via his powers. Am I dead wrong on that? Ultra-time travel, especially in light of his grudge with Glorith, would have been fascinating to follow-up on.
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Didn't Roxxas just use some kind of time device on him?
But I believe it was theorized somewhere that he might have additional powers that he hadn't discovered.
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: "I'll switch me ultra-energy to super-speed and get away!"
This was also when Ultra Boy was going through his "Irish Leprechaun" phase...
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Well he should probably have telepathey or telekinesis. If Brainy teaches him how to switch his ultra-energy to his brain! That would be kind of cool. maybe that is what he did to figure out the time travel stuff in v4 annual #1.
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I was actually thinking yesterday that it would be cool for him to develop ultra-kinesis, kind of similar to what the Phantom Zone villains do in Superman II!
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If memory serves, Roxxas had some sort of temporal grenade he was saving for a Daxamite, but since he was taking such a pounding, he had no choice but to use it on UB.
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