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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?

Maybe he just wanted to cuddle?

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.

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.

This was also when Ultra Boy was going through his "Irish Leprechaun" phase...

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.

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!

A chronal-howitzer IIRC

No, I think that's what Shrinking Violet used on Glorith later.

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.

I don't know if Ultra Boy ever flew without his ring, but I do know it was an editor's note that he uses his flight ring to fly, thereby allowing him to use another super power, rather than "wasting" his one superpower at a time on flight. So, the editor did imply that he can fly without a flight ring.

I'm reading the old Adventure stories now and Jo uses his penetra-vision 10x more than any other power. It's as if Superboy and Mon-El cannot use their x-ray vision.

Actually, I think that was his only superpower early on. At some point, he started using other superpowers, though I don't recall when.

IIRC, the device used Roxxas used on Jo was a chronal howitzer, from which Brainy figured out how to build the CH used on Glorith.

BTW, a howitzer is a sort of cannon. Wouldn't "chronal grenade" be better?