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Shrinking Violet? (I remember something about a light being replaced that acted like a lure for the beast, but I think I might be combining two stories.)

Not Shrinking Violet.

Lightning Lad?

Nope.

Hint: Lightning Lad was dead at the time.

Lightning Lass?

Not Lightning Lass!

Sun Boy?

Not Sun Boy!

Mon-El?

Nope, though like Mon-El, this character can survive in airless space!

Ultra Boy?

Nope.

Proty?

Dev-Em?

Proty it is!

He lured away the last of the space serpents attacking the interplanetary post office by pretending to be a young space serpent himself!

Unfortunately, two Interplanetary Postal Workers had already died from exposure to the vacuum. Fortunately, however, the Legion managed to get them to the Planet Skor, where a technique for reviving the dead managed to save them!

Cool... I have a related question - just trying to track down a panel reference to make sure I've got my facts right. Question soon.

OK...


Inside of the Interplanetary Post Office we are shown several mail slots which seem to labeled as delivery receptacles for mail bound for Solar System planets. One of the destination slots is obscured, however, and we can only see the letters, "HE..."

Assuming that what we are seeing is, indeed, strictly related to Solar System planetary mail, what is the likeliest word that is being covered up?

Is "HE" definitely the beginning of the word? Maybe it's part of the words "THE MOON."

Alternatively, maybe it's part of the word "OTHER", indicating non-Solar System destinations.

The asteroid Hestia, perhaps?

"HE" is definitely the beginning of the word, and - like I say - this question is predicated on the assumption of strictly Solar System destinations. (For all I know it may have been intended to be a non-Solar System destination but, as all others are, I'm sticking with my assumption).

And, to Eric's guess, remember... this is an Interplanetary Post Office... no asteroids allowed.

It might help to think outside of the box... not all planets in our Solar System have always had the names they have today - or, at least, not everyone felt they should.

Oh, was one of the planets named for William Herschel for awhile?

Presumably Uranus, since that's the one he discovered.

Bingo!

Uranus was "discovered" by William Herschel, who proposed that it be named "Georgium Sidus" or "George's Star" in honor of George III.

The French, for obvious reasons, took issue with this and - for quite a while - called the planet, "Herschel". It was finally mostly standardized as "Uranus" in 1850, although references to the planet as "Herschel" persisted for a good while afterwords (I've actually seen references as late as the 1970's).

Even the symbol for Uranus still refects this name:

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Good job, fellow space nerd!

Okay, then.

Here's another question, related to my last one.

Not only did the planet Skor give birth to a process for resurrecting the dead (albeit one that was useless for Lightning Lad), it also gave birth to two Legion foes.

Name the two Skorian Legion villains.

Uli Algor and Sunburst?

Yep. Siblings Uli and Byno Algor were natives of Skor.