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It struck me recently that the usual list of Legionnaires you normally see (pre-ZH) is incomplete. It usually misses out the baddies that have infiltrated the Legion such as Command Kid. Can anyone remember who all these villianous legionnaires were.

Of the top of my head I can remember Command Kid, Lightning Lord, Saturn Queen, Cosmic King and those 3 spies (one of then was called Magentic Kid)

wasn't Blackout boy one of them, and don't forget Nemesis Kid too

Size Lad

Nemesis Kid was certainly villainous but his membership does tend to be recognised in official list.

Was there anyone else? I can think of people that went for the tryout's but can't remember if anyone made it in briefly just to be thrown out. Did people like Dynamo Boy & Storm Boy make it in briefly? I can't remember.

Dynamo Boy was the pirate who infiltrated the Legion and replaced its members with members of the LSV, so, yes, he joined. I always thought this should have been used as the origin of the LSV, with him replacing Legionnaires with young, crooked counterparts rather than the Adult LSV.

Dynamo Kid was the reporter who tried to infiltrate the Legion to get a story after Lightning Lad died. He was found out and rejected.

Storm Boy was also discovered and rejected before joining, though he (or someone using the name)apparently joined during the Five-Year Gap.

"False Pretenses Lad", dubbed by Legion fandom, joined off-panel. He is a nameless infiltrator only seen from behind, being led into prison in shackles by the S.P.s in Adventure Comics #327. He claimed to have joined the Legion under false pretenses to access their mission monitor board. Therefore, must have been a Legionnaire for a brief time.

Out of curiosity, is Anti-Lad from Superboy 204 in the usual pre-ZH lists?

I've never seen Anti-Lad mentioned in such lists, Amentep. But, if memory serves, he hadn't been fully inducted into the Legion when his deception was discovered. He had only passed the try-out. (Which, admittedly, doesn't explain why the Legionnaires gave him his own name card and shot a picture grid of him at their meeting table -- but without that grid, the story wouldn't work. )

There was also Molecule Master -- I don't think he was made a member either, but he passed the first round of try outs.

That's right. He tried to kill the entire team before he could take the psychological tests.

The comlpete? Roster:

Cosmic Boy (/Man)/Polestar
Saturn Girl (/Woman)
Lightning Lad (/Man)/Live Wire
Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel/Triad
Phantom Girl (/Woman)/Apparition
Chameleon Boy/Chameleon
Colossal Boy (/Man)/Leviathon/Micro Lad
Invisible Kid
Supergirl [Laurel Gand/Tiger Rose/Thelma*]
Brainiac 5/B-5
Superboy (/Man)
Ultra Boy (/Man)/Emerald Dragon
Pete Ross
Star Boy (one-time Sir Prize)
Shrinking Violet/Virus/LeViathon/Violet/Atom Girl
Sun Boy/Inferno
Bouncing Boy
Marvel Lad/Mon-El [Valor*]/M'Onel
Matter-Eater Lad (/Man)
Mystery Lad/Element Lad (/Man)/Alchemist
Lightning Lass/Light Lass/Lightning Lass (Light Lady)/Pulse/Gossamer/Spark
Jimmy Olsen/Elastic Lad
Dream Girl (one-time Miss Terious)/Dreamer
Legion Of Substitute Heroes
...Polar Boy (/Man)
...Night Girl (/Woman)
...Stone Boy
...Fire Lad
...Chlorophyll Kid
"False Pretenses Lad"
Command Kid
Dynamo Boy
Cosmic King
Saturn Queen
Lightning Lord
Size Lad
Blackout Boy
Magnetic Kid I
Kid Psycho
Princess Projectra/Queen Projectra/Sensor Girl/Sensor
Nemesis Kid
Ferro Lad/Ferro
Karate Kid
Universo
Alternate Future Adult Legion
...Timber Wolf
...Chemical King
...Reflecto
...Shadow Woman
...Quantum Queen
...?/Jan Jor
...Power Boy
...Color King
...White Witch
...Proty II
...Lex Luthor V
...Mxyzptlk V
...Ferro Man
...Batman
Lana Lang/Insect Queen
Rond Vidar/Green Lantern
Biron the Bowman/Comet the Superhorse
Blockade Boy II/Proty II
Shadow Lass (/Woman)/Umbra
Chemical King
Timber Wolf (formally Lone Wolf)/Furball
Renkil Kem
ERG-1/Wildfire/N.R.G.
Anti-Lad
Tyroc
Dawnstar/Bounty/Dawnstar
Blok
Invisible Kid II/Evanesce
White Witch/Jewel
Polar Boy
Magnetic Kid II
Tellus
Quislet
Nightwind
Impulse/Kent Shakespeare
Karate Kid II
Atmos
Echo
Crystal Kid
Reflecto*
Fire Lad
Chlorophyll Kid
Porcupine Pete
Infectious Lass
Visi-Lad
Color Kid
Stone Boy
Storm Boy
Calamity King
Kono
Celeste McCauley/Celeste Rockfish/Neon/Darkstar
Devlin O'Ryan/Reflex
Ivy
Kid Quantum I*
Legionnaires/SW6 Batch
...Alchemist
...Apparition
...Andromeda
...Brainiac 5
...Catspaw
...Chameleon
...Computo
...Cosmic Boy
...Dragonmage
...Ferro
...Gossamer
...Inferno
...Invisible Kid
...Leviathon
...Live Wire
...Matter-Eater Lad
...Saturn Girl
...Shrinking Violet
...Triad
...Ultra Boy
...Kid Quantum
...Bouncing Boy
...Dream Girl
...Star Boy
...Chameleon Boy
...Karate Kid
...Princess Projectra
Firefist
Veilmist
Blood Claw
Flederweb
Spider Girl/Wave

****ZERO HOUR restart****
XS
Kinetix
Andromeda
Superboy II (Kon-El)
Gates
Magno
Inferno II
Impulse
Monstress
Kid Quantum II
Thunder
Gear
Shikari
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Dream Boy
Theena

Ever notice how nobody misses Jimmy Olsen?

Huh? Jimmy Olsen??

Hey Nightcrawler, I've enjoyed your stellar work on the Legion for years and just humbly say "Thank you." Also, thanks for popping up on the boards as much as you do. Kudos as well for the comprehensive list, and for sharing your love of Legion lore. Must be be my old age catching up with me; I can place every name except Jan Jor. Who is he/ she?? Care to 'splain?

I do, darn it.

Er...I'm not Dave, or Steve for that matter, but Jan Jor is from ADVENTURE COMICS #354 March 1967.

On page 15, the adult Legionnaires are searching through their records looking for any member who had a criminal record or who associated with criminals since leaving the Legion. Jan Jor's file is shown. He's 32, 6' 3" and 180lbs. That's all we know about him.

I'd always figured the picture implied he'd made it into the group, although I suppose it might not. Maybe the Photographer was already there that day and they figured they could get the picture done and not waste time with it later...

Cheers Nightcrawler, I never realised there was so many extra Legionnaires!

It's probably one of those stories where the writer or editor came up with the title first and then wrote the story around it. "The Legionnaire Nobody Remembered" is a lot catchier than "The Legion Applicant Nobody Remembered."

"Ever notice how nobody misses Jimmy Olsen?"

One of the coolest reprint volumes this year was the Jack Kirby JO stories. I loved how in several episodes, Jack used the logo, "Jimmy Olsen's Pal, Superman" (THAT's puttin' him in his place!).

I was describing this book to someone who'd never read any of the stories, but was generally familiar with the Wiesinger-era JO. I pointed out how in every story JO seems to mutate or get involved in one rediculous situation after another. Considering that, it really didn't seem so out-of-left field when in Jack's 1st story, Jimmy winds up becoming the LEADER of a BIKER GANG! (And tells Supes to get lost, man!)

"The Legion Applicant Nobody Remembered" sounds like a lost paperwork issue.

Cheers to Nightcrawler too, for bumping this thread and for the complete list.

This list rocks, for the record.