Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Not Hawkman.

One time Superman teamed up with another hero to defend Earth from an approaching space seed, but the seed gives them both amnesia and they both deduce separately that they are the other hero. Which hero did Superman believe himself to be?

Not: Green Lantern, Captain Marvel, Hawkman

Flash?

Heh--the blonde Superman...

Mon-El?

Captain Comet?

Thoth has it with Flash!

Superman spotted an interstellar space seed approaching the Earth and summoned the Justice League but only Flash was available. After swapping uniforms so Flash would be more protected in Superman's indestructible costume, they went into space to "negotiate" with the seed, but it blasted them back to Earth and gave them amnesia in the process. Being in the opposite super-hero outfits they each decided they were that hero with "Superman" wondering what happened to the rest of his powers and "Flash" not knowing why he couldn't vibrate through walls. Eventually they bumped into each other and, after a brief tussle, sorted the whole thing out. They solved the original problem by Flash using superspeed to fuse an area of Earth really really hard and Superman pounded his body into it again and again, slowing the Earth in its orbit just enough so that the speeding seed (which would have sprouted and taken over the planet) shot past and into the sun. Hopefully afterwards they did the same on the opposite side of the planet to get Earth back to its original orbit or our clocks and calendars have been wrong ever since.

It was a Bonze Age story but like so many Silver Age the plot was created to setup the bit the writers really wanted, mixing up the two heroes. The cover from Superman #220 says it all. https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_220

Your turn Thoth.

as always, loving your story summaries, stile!

I was picturing it as a DC presents story.

At the end of it's original series, Swamp Thing was going to become a team up book with which character?

Man-Bat?

John Constantine?

That's an excellent guess. Fitting with the timing and more suitable than the answer. At least 1 similarity to the actual answer.

This was before there was a Constantine

Floronic Man?

Not the Floronic Man. The answer was a much more high profile character.

Madame Xanadu?

Not Madame Xanadu, and not that sort of character.

If not Man-Bat, then Batman?

Not Batman, but a character who has been in the same group as him.

Phantom Stranger?

Zatanna?

Not Phantom Stranger or Zatanna. On the same team as both of them and Batman, but not a character with horror/ supernatural elements. And 1 thing in common with Man Bat.

Firestorm (as the Fire Elemental perhaps)?

Nice link, but not Firestorm. This chapter was around before Firestorm and Swamp Thing.

Elongated Man?

Not Ralph. This character had their own title before this.

Red Tornado? (as the Air Elemental?)