Legion World Forums LEGION WORLD Encyclopedia Galactica 1985-1988 - Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe

Published from 1985 to 1987. Contributing writers - Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Mike W. Barr, Gary Cohn, Paul Levitz, E. Nelson Bridwell, Peter Sanderson, Todd Klein, Bob Rozakis, Barbara Randall, Paul Kupperberg, Greg Weisman, John Ostrander, Joey Cavalieri, Jonathan Peterson, & Doug Moench.

Blok , Bouncing Boy , & Brainiac 5 - issue #3 (MAY 85).

Chameleon Boy , Chemical King , & Chlorophyll Kid - issue #4 (JUNE 85).

Color Kid , Colossal Boy , Composite Superman , Computo , Controllers , Cosmic Boy , & Cosmic King - issue #5 (JULY 85).

Dark Circle , Darkseid , & Dawnstar - issue #6 (AUG. 85).

Doctor Regulus , Dream Girl , Duo Damsel , Duplicate Boy , Elastic Lad , Element Lad , & Emerald Empress - issue #7 (SEPT. 85).

Fatal Five , Ferro Lad , & Fire Lad - issue #8 (OCT. 85).

Grimbor - issue #9 (NOV. 85).

Heroes of Lallor - issue #10 (DEC. 85).

Infinite Man , Insect Queen , Invisible Kid I , & Invisible Kid II - issue #11 (JAN. 86).

Karate Kid & The Khunds - issue #12 (FEB. 86).

Krypto , The League of Super-Assassins , Legion Academy , The Legion of Substitute Heroes , Legion of Super=Heroes , Legion of Super-Heroes Headquarters , Legion of Super-Pets , The Legion of Super-Villains , Lightning Lad , Lightning Lass , & Lightning Lord - issue #13 (MAR. 86).

Luthor , Magnetic Kid , & Mano - issue #14 (APR. 86).

Matter-Eater Lad & Mr. Mxyzptlk - issue #15 (MAY 86).

Mon-El , Mordru , Nemesis Kid , & Night Girl - issue #16 (JUNE 86).

Persuader - issue #17 (JULY 86).

Phantom Girl , Phantom Zone , Polar Boy , Proty , & Pulsar Stargrave - issue #18 (AUG. 86).

Quislet - issue #19 (SEPT.86).

Saturn Girl , Saturn Queen , Sensor Girl , & Shadow Lass - issue #20 (OCT. 86).

Shrinking Violet , Star Boy , & Starfinger - issue #21 (NOV. 86).

Stone Boy , Sun Boy , Sun-Eater , Supergirl , & Superman - issue #22 (DEC. 86).

Tellus , Tharok , Timber Wolf , & Time Trapper - issue #23 (JAN. 87).

Tyr , Tyroc , Ultra Boy , & Universo - issue #24 (FEB. 87).

Validus , The Wanderers , White Witch , & Wildfire - issue #25 (MAR. 87).

Alter Ego: None
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #253
Height: 7'2" Weight: 975 lbs.
Eyes: White Hair: None



A member of the sentient rock species that inhabited the planet Dryad in the latter half of the 30th Century, Blok was tricked into believing that the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) was responsible for the destruction of Dryad. Together with five young super-powered human settlers from the disintegrated planet, Blok formed the League of Super-Assassins ( see LSA ) and attacked the LSH.
Ultimately, Blok learned that the Legion had really saved the population of Dryad from a natural dsaster, and that a villain known as Dark Man ( see Tharok ) had tricked the Super-Assassins. The other five members remained outlaws, but Blok reformed and joined the Legion shortly thereafter.



Blok's alien body has the qualities of tremendous mass, near-invulnerability, and greater than human strength. As a Legionnaire he has completed personal combat training (as adapted to his physiology) with undistinguished results, and wears a specially developed LSH flight ring that allows him to fly at will. Art by Steve Lightle

Alter Ego: Chuck Taine
Occupation: Instructor
Marital Status: Married
Know Relatives: Lournu Durgo Taine (wife)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #276
Height: 5'8" Weight: 221 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



While working as an errand boy for a famous scientist on his native Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century. Chuck Taine accidentally drank an experimental super-plastic fluid. The fluid altered his body radically, giving him the power to inflate into a spongy, almost rotund shape that could bounce and ricochet without harm.
Chuck sought membership in the newly formed Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), but was passed over until he proved his worth by defeating an electrical villain by using his power to keep from being grounded.
As a Legionnaire, Chuck was self-appointed “morale officer,” never taking his powers or himself seriously, despite the important contributions he made to the team.
Chuck has lost and regained his powers three times in his career, and during one of these powerless intervals he retired from the LSH to marry Lournu Durgo ( see Duo Damsel ). Both now serve as instructors at the Legion Academy ( see LSH Academy ) and as reserve members of the Legion.



Bouncing Boy’s sole power is the ability to inflate and bounce with amazing agility and resilience. As a Legionnaire, he has done well at personal combat training and wears the Legion flight ring, which allows him to fly. Art by Keith Giffen & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Querl Dox
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Brainiac (adoptive great-great-grandfather)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #276
Height: 5'10" Weight: 160 lbs.
Eyes: Green Hair: Blond



Querl Dox is descended from Vril Dox, a boy adopted by the original Brainiac (a foe of Superman) to aid his human disguise in the 20th Century. Vril Dox led a revolt against the computer tyrants of his homeworld of Colu, the builders of Brainiac. He defeated them by inventing a stimulator that raised him to twelfth-level effector intelligence (on scale where Earthmen are sixth level and the tyrants were tenth). This intelligence was passed on the Querl.
Querl came to Earth to do research at the Time Institute in the latter half of the 30th Century, and played a major role in perfecting the Time Bubble. It was that invention that brought him into contact with the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), which he then joined, taking the name Brainiac Five.
Among his significant inventions are the force shield belt he normally wears, the flight ring, and the serum which saves Mon-El from lead poisoning ( see Mon-El ). He also created and unleashed Computo, the deadliest computer of his century ( see Computo ).
The strain of his intelligence has caused Querl to demonstrate occasional mental problems including a bout with insanity, but his present condition is very stable. Between Legion missions he works off nervous energy in his multi-laboratory.



Brainiac Five wears a force shield to protect him from almost any type of harm, and capable of projecting similar fields short distances. As a Legionnaire, he has completed personal combat training (inattentively) and wears the LSH flight ring, which permits him to fly at will. However, his one true power is his extraordinary computer mind. Art by Curt Swan & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Reep Daggle
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: R. J. Brande (father)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #267
Height: Variable Weight: Variable
Eyes: Variable Hair: None



Reep Daggle left the quarantined planet Durla in the latter half of the 30th Century to combat pervasive galactic prejudice against his species of shape-changers. Reep joined the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) as an early member, and Colossal Boy coined the name Chameleon Boy for him after Earth’s color-changing lizard.
Unknown to Reep, his father, whom he believed long dead, was actually living in the guise of a human, calling himself Rene Jacques Brande. Brande funded the Legion’s early activities, but it wasn’t until a medical emergency years later that his relationship to Reep was revealed to his son.
Chameleon Boy serves as permanent head of the Legion Espionage Squad, and is known as one of the better detectives on the team.



Reep Daggle has the native Durlan ability to analyze unfamiliar objects with radiation generated by his antennae, and to then transform himself into a duplicate of that object – be it animal, vegetable, or mineral. The limits of his power are uncertain, as he cannot become truly intangible or invisible, for example, and would not gain the physical strength of Mon-El ( see Mon-El ) if he were to assume that disguise.
As a Legionnaire, he has excelled at personal combat training and wears the Legion flight ring, which gives him the power to fly. Art by Keith Giffen & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Condo Arlik
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #371
Height: 5’7” Weight: 140 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



Condo Arlik, a mutant who came to Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century from the planet Phlon, became one of the first students at the Legion Academy ( see Legion Academy ). Chosen by the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) to infiltrate the Legion of Super-Villains ( see LSV ), he earned membership in the LSH as Chemical King.
Chemical King’s short career ended when he sacrificed his life to prevent the outbreak of World War VII from a plot of the Dark Circle ( see Dark Circle ).



Condo Arlik had the mutant ability to selectively speed up or slow down chemical reactions, serving as a human catalyst.
As a Legionnaire, he had done well at personal combat training and wore the Legion flight ring, which gave him the power to fly. Art by Dan Jurgens and Larry Mahlstedt

Alter Ego: Ral Benem
Occupation: Substitute Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Substitute Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #306
Height: 5’6” Weight: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Green Hair: Green [Actually Blond]



Ral Benem came to Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century from his native Mardru to apply for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ). His power to stimulate plant growth, acquired when he accidentally fell into a tank of hydroponic serum as a child, was pronounced inadequate and was rejected.
Calling himself Chlorophyll Kid, he became one of the five LSH rejects to found the Legion of Substitute Heroes ( see Legion of Substitute Heroes[/i] ).



Chlorophyll Kid can stimulate rapid plant growth, such as turning an acorn into an oak in seconds, and carries various seeds in his belt for suitable contingencies.
As a Substitute Hero, he has access to LSH weaponry and training but has no particular combat skills. [i]Art by Keith Giffen and Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Ulu Vakk
Occupation: Substitute Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Substitute Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #342
Height: 5’5” Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



Ulu Vakk came to Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century from his native planet Lupra to apply for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ). His power to alter the color of objects, a result of a laboratory accident that bathed him in multidimensional light, was considered nearly useless and he was rejected.
Under the name Color Kid, he subsequently joined the Legion of Substitute Heroes ( see Legion of Substitute Heroes[/i] ).



Ulu Vakk can change the color of any type of object. As a Substitute Hero, he has access to LSH weaponry and training but has no particular combat skills. [i]Art by Keith Giffen and Bob Oksner

Alter Ego: Gim Allon
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Married
Know Relatives: Marte Allon (mother), Wynn Allon (father), Yera (wife)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #267
Height: 6’2” Weight: 200 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown



Gim Allon was on vacation from the Science Police Training Academy in the latter half of the 30th Century when a strange meteor crashed into the Martian soil near him. The meteor’s radiation altered his body’s RNA, giving him the power to grow to a variety of giant sizes at will.
Gim’s family convinced him to use his new powers in the cause of justice, and he joined the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) as an early member. For a long time Gim had a crush on fellow member Shrinking Violet ( see Shrinking Violet ) that was not reciprocated, but when a Durlan actress infiltrated the LSH disguised as Violet, Gim married her. When the true identity of Yera (the Durlan’s stage name) was revealed, Gim realized he had fallen in love with her, and reaffirmed their marriage.
For several years Gim’s mother, Marte, served as elected President of Earth and a member of the United Planets Council. She has now returned to Metropolis University’s political science faculty.



Gim Allon has the ability to enlarge his body proportionately, effectively growing to sizes from his normal height to heights of ten or twenty-five feet, for example. The precise limitations on this power have not been established, nor the exact extent to which his strength increases with size, an apparent side effect of the growth.
As a Legionnaire, Gim has completed personal combat training and wears the LSH flight ring to fly. With his additional combat training from his studies with the Science Police, he is one of the most skilled hand-to-hand combatants in the LSH. Art by Steve Lightle and Bill Wray

Alter Ego: Joseph Meach
Occupation: Caretaker of the Superman Museum
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: City of Metropolis
First Appearance: WORD’S FINEST COMICS #142
Height: 6’1” Weight: 201 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown



Determined to become famous but a failure at everything he tried, Joe Meach was saved from certain death by Superman ( see Superman ), who then got Meach a job as caretaker of the Superman Museum. Working in shadow of the Man of Steel day after day, Meach grew to resent him. One afternoon, as Meach was standing in front of a display that featured statuettes of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), a stray bolt of lightning struck the statuettes and Meach suddenly felt himself possessed of extraordinary power. Apparently the 30th Century duplicator machine that had been used to create the Legionnaire statuettes had also imbued each statuette with a portion of that Legionnaire’s super-powers.
Convinced that Superman had humiliated him by making him a lowly sweeper, Meach decided to gain his revenge by humiliating Superman and Batman (the dark knight detective and sometime partner to Superman) before the world. Using the shape-shifting powers of Chameleon Boy ( see Chameleon Boy ), Meach transformed himself into the Composite Superman, a green-skinned figure wearing a half-Superman/half-Batman costume.
With his vast array of super-powers the Composite Superman was easily able to accomplish his ends, humiliating the World’s Finest duo in public again and again, Learning their secret identities, and threatening to reveal those identities to the world unless Superman and Batman retired from public life permanently. Unable to defeat the Composite Superman, the two heroes were on the verge of surrendering to his wishes when the Composite Superman’s power-charge wore off, leaving him plain Joe Meach again, with no knowledge of what he had been and done.
Months later an alien named Xan, seeking to avenge the death of his space-pirate father, who had been captured and imprisoned by Superman and Batman, secretly duplicated the lightning accident that had first affected Meach and transformed him once more into the Composite Superman. Again, the composite criminal was on the verge of defeating the World’s Finest heroes when his power-charge wore off and he became Joe Meach once more, but this time Meach, learning how he had been used, sacrificed his life to save Superman and Batman from Xan’s vengeance.
To prevent the Composite Superman from ever coming into being again, Superman used his heat vision to melt the Legionnaire statuettes into slag. Unfortunately, Xan, escaping from prison months later, traveled back to a time before the statuettes had been destroyed and duplicated the lightning strike, giving himself the powers of the Composite Superman. Xan soon abandoned his Composite Superman guise to become the super-villain known as Amalgamax, but unlike his predecessor, he was finally outsmarted by Superman and Batman, with the aid of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and returned to prison when his super-powers wore off.



When fully charged, the Composite Superman duplicated the powers of the following Legionnaires: Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Bouncing Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Elastic Lad, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Light Lass, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Supergirl, Saturn Girl, and Triplicate Girl. The duration of these powers is of unspecified but limited length, depending on the intensity of the lightning strike that affects the statuettes
While possessing these powers the Composite Superman is an extraordinary athlete and superior hand-to-hand combatant. Plain Joe Meach is neither of those things. Art by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson

Alter Ego: None
Occupation: Majordomo
Know Relatives: Brainiac Five (creator)
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #340
Height: 4’ (diameter) Weight: Unknown
Eyes: None Hair: None



In the latter half of the 30th Century Brainiac Five ( see Brainiac Five ) undertook a project to build the ultimate computer. He named the artificial intelligence that emerged Computo, and then watched helplessly as Computo ruthlessly set out to create a tyranny of computers on Earth. With the assistance of other members of the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), Brainiac Five defeated Computo, but not before the machine had destroyed one of Luornu Durgo’s three bodies, changing her from Triplicate Girl to Duo Damsel ( see Duo Damsel ).
Restored to inanimate life years later when Brainiac Five accidentally incorporated a similar circuitry in a device he had built to save the life of Danielle Foccart, Computo invaded LSH Headquarters ( see LSH HQ ) and nearly murdered the entire team. Only the decision of Jacques Foccart, the girl’s elder brother, to assume the powers and role of Invisible Kid ( see Invisible Kid II ) enabled Brainiac Five to defeat Computo again.
A now-tamed version of Computo is contained in an energized circuit globe that serves as majordomo for the LSH headquarters under Brainiac Five’s watchful supervision and the suspicious glances of other Legionnaires.



Computo possesses a nearly unlimited capacity for logic and intelligence, and the power to dominate other forms of electronic circuitry and artificial intelligences. Depending on the physical form in which it is assembled, Computo possesses some degree of physical or electrical powers as well. Art by Keith Giffen and Gary Martin

Approximately ten billion years before the atomic age of Earth, an advanced race with vast powers had evolved on the planet Oa. Among them was an individual named Krona, who broke certain taboos to probe the origins of the universe and of life itself. In the process, evil was allegedly unleashed on worlds where it had previously been unknown.
To repair the damage Krona had done, his fellow Oans elected to use their immortal lives and powers to combat evil. Krona was rendered helpless and banished from our universe, and the Oans sought effective ways of combating evil. As their numbers were small, no matter how vast their power, they decided to act through agents. Most of the Oans felt the best method was to work within mortal societies, and thus they developed robots known as Manhunters, which were later replaced by living agents called Green Lanterns. These Oans became the Guardians of the Universe and kept their base of operations on Oa.
Another group disagreed, believing that evil was an infection the Oans had let loose, and that if it became sufficiently serious, it had to be destroyed. When they failed to convince their fellows of this philosophy, they departed Oa to another dimension. There, they developed weapons of awesome power and assigned one to each of their group. Each member would watch over a specific segment of the multiple universes, and if evil got out of control anywhere, would destroy the affected galaxy. They took the name Controllers.
In the latter half of the 30th Century one Controller decided to use his power to conquer his assigned territory, and unleashed a Sun-Eater, which was his weapon. The Sun-Eater menaced Earth and was defeated by the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) at the cost of Ferro Lad’s life ( see Ferro Lad ). The Legionnaires also confronted the Controller, who died of an apparent heart attack that may or may not have been caused by the presence of Ferro Lad’s ghost. The Legion was rewarded for their intervention by the other Controllers, who gave them a “Miracle Machine” that could create matter from thought and that later saved the Earth from invasion before being destroyed by Matter-Eater Lad ( see Matter-Eater Lad ).



The personal powers of the Controllers are unknown, but if they are at all similar to their distant relatives, the Guardians (whom they no longer resemble physically through divergently directed evolution), they have substantial abilities to alter matter and energy at will. Their physical prowess appears greater than that of the Guardians, but still not significant.
The only weapon used by the Controllers that we have seen is the Sun-Eater, a gaseous creature capable of consuming entire stars. Other equally powerful but vastly different weapons are believed to exist. Art by Jerry Bingham

Alter Ego: Rokk Krinn
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Unmarried
Know Relatives: Pol Krinn (brother), Hu Krinn (father), Ewa Krinn (mother, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #247
Height: 6’0” Weight: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



Rokk Krinn emigrated to Earth from the planet Braal, where he was brought up in the latter half of the 30th Century. Rokk had been born on Earth when his father worked there, and returned in search of a job utilizing his native Braalian control over magnetism.
As Rokk’s ship arrived on Earth a fellow passenger named Imra Ardeen ( see Saturn Girl ) use her telepathic power to learn that assassins were about to strike at R.J. Brande, a wealthy man traveling on the flight. Rokk’s magnetic powers and the lightning powers of another passenger, Garth Ranzz ( see Lightning Lad ), stopped the assassins.
Brande suggested that the three teenagers emulate legendary 20th Century heroes Superboy ( see Superman ) and Supergirl ( see Supergirl ), and use their powers for good. They agreed and formed the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), and elected Rokk under his new name of Cosmic Boy as their first leader.
Serving as leader for the first two years, Cosmic Boy built the team to 18 members, and established its constitution and style. He still serves as an “elder statesman” on the LSH.
Recently Rokk’s mother, Ewa, was killed in a fireballing incident, and his younger brother, Pol, was injured. This led Pol to take the identity of Magnetic Lad ( see Magnetic Lad ) and enter the LSH Academy ( see LSH Academy ).
Lydda Jath ( see Night Girl ) had a long-standing crush on Rokk, that has blossomed into a lasting romance.



Rokk has the power to control magnetism, which he can use to attract, repel, or affect any magnetic atom or ore. This enables him to shatter metal or even to “fly” along the magnetic lines of force of certain planets, as well as perform more simple feats such as tearing open metallic walls or repelling projectiles.
As a Legionnaire, Rokk has completed personal combat training but rarely uses his physical strength or prowess. He wears the LSH flight ring, which permits him to fly. Art by Richard Howell & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Unknown
Occupation: Professional Criminal
Marital Status: Unknown
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Villains
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2
Height: 6’0” Weight: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



Cosmic King was a native of Venus in the latter half of the 30th Century. He was experimenting in transmutation when an accidental exposure to a ray in his laboratory gave him the power to transmute inanimate objects. Exiled in disgrace from Venus because the natives felt transmutation was inherently evil, he took the name Cosmic King and began a criminal career.
Cosmic King has served as a member of the loosely affiliated Legion of Super-Villains ( see LSV ) and has battled the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ).



Cosmic King has the ability to transmute inanimate objects, changing their elemental composition, structure, or form with unknown limitations. He has demonstrated no skill at physical combat. Art by Tom Mandrake

Alter Egos: Ontiir, Golgoth, and three unknowns
Occupation: Would-be Intergalactic Conquerors
Marital Status: Unknown
Know Relatives: The soldiers of the Dark Circle (clones)
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #267



A mysterious group that first struck in the latter half of the 30th Century, the Dark Circle has attempted on several occasions to conquer Earth and the United Planets. Originally thought to be an alliance of five unknown worlds, the Dark Circle was ultimately revealed by the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) to be an organization composed of five different worlds belonging to the United Planets. The armies of the Dark Circle were composed of clones of the five ruling members.



The Dark Circle members had no individual powers but had mastery of a wide variety of high-technology weapons. Art by Dan Jurgens & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: None
Occupation: Dictator, Would-Be Ruler of the Universe
Marital Status: Twice Married
Know Relatives: Heggra (mother, deceased), Steppenwolf (uncle, deceased), Suli (wife, deceased), Tigra (wife), Orion, Kalibak (sons)
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: The Planet Apokolips
First Appearance: JIMMY OLSEN #134
Height: 7’6” Weight: 515 lbs.
Eyes: Red Hair: None



The son of Queen Heggra of the planet Apokolips, the young Darkseid played the role of a humble, retiring member of the royal court while quietly maneuvering to seize power. Darkseid’s first major step was to persuade his uncle Steppenwolf to go to the nearby planet New Genesis to hunt down some of its citizens for sport. While there, Steppenwolf murdered Avia, the wife of Izaya, one of the planet’s leaders. Darkseid pretended to kill Izaya, who then as Darkseid had planned, launched “the Great Clash” between the two planets. During the war Darkseid ceded command of a raid to Steppenwolf, knowing that it would lead to the latter’s death at Izaya’s hands. Darkseid took over direction of the war and, after his ally Desaad secretly murdered Queen Heggra, the throne of Apokolips as well.
In the final days of the war Izaya, now known as Highfather, and Darkseid negociated a peace treaty. Darkseid wanted time to find a means of guaranteeing his ultimate victory. By the terms of “the Pact,” Darkseid and Highfather exchanged guardianship of their heirs. Darkseid sent to New Genesis the boy Orion, the product of his loveless marriage to Tigra, whom Heggra had chosen to be his wife. In return Highfather sent his son Scott Free, who later became Mister Miracle, to Darkseid.
Years later Darkseid broke the truce by kidnapping people from Earth to Apokolips. He then invaded Earth, hoping to discover in the minds of one of its inhabitants the Anti-Life Equation, the psionic means by which he could control every sentient being in the universe. Hostilities between Apokolips and New Genesis again broke out, with Earth as the battlefield. Darkseid’s son Orion became his most implacable adversary in these battles.
Recently, the war has apparently ended with the destruction of New Genesis, whose inhabitants have left for elsewhere in space, and a revolution by the “Hunger Dogs,” the slave-like labor force of Apokolips. Apokolips lies in ruins, but Darkseid has survived.
Through unknown means, Darkseid has appeared in the 30th Century to battle the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ). However, it has been prophesied that Darkseid will someday meet his ultimate fate in battle with his son Orion amid the fire-pits of Armagetto on Apokolips.



The full extent of Darkseid’s superhuman powers remains unknown, since he prefers to act through his subordinates. He is known, however, to be the most powerful being on Apokolips.
Darkseid’s major known power is his mastery of the “Omega Effect,” a form of energy projected from his eyes. Its full range of uses has not been revealed. However, the Omega Effect can be used as force bolts, as disintegration beams, or as means of teleporting a target through time and pace. It can even restore targets that it has disintegrated, resurrecting them if they were alive. The Omega Effect beams will follow their intended target, no matter where it moves, until they contact it.
Darkseid possesses superhuman strength that is roughly equal to that of his son Orion.
Darkseid displayed other powers in the 30th Century, including the ability to generate force bolts from his hands as well as a force-field, to levitate and teleport himself, and to control the minds of an entire planet’s population psionically. At least some of these abilities may be the result of his having temporarily stolen power from various 30th Century menaces.
Darkseid is a master strategist and, as ruler of Apokolips, has extraordinary weaponry, superpowerful agents, and vast armies at his disposal. Art by Jack Kirby & Greg Theakston

Alter Ego: None
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Moonwalker (mother), Mist-Rider (father)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: SUPERBOY #225 [Actually #226]
Height: 5’6” Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black



Dawnstar is a mutant Amerind, born with wings and unique abilities on the planet Starhaven in the latter half of the 30th Century. Utilizing her power to fly through space at astronomic speeds and to track people or objects with uncanny accuracy, she adopted a career as a bounty hunter and tracker.
R.J. Brande, a principal backer of the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ), became aware of her powers and offered her a salary to attend the LSH Academy ( see LSH Academy ). While studying there under Wildfire’s tutelage, ( see Wildfire ), she realized the virtues of teamwork and public service, and ultimately joined the Legion.
Dawnstar developed a crush on Wildfire, which matured into a “romantic but platonic (of necessity)” relationship. In a recent mission to the so-called planet of Exile, Dawnstar entered into a relationship with a native named Jhodan, and is now torn between the two men.



Dawnstar has the ability to survive unaided in outer space, and to fly through space with tremendous speed and accuracy. She can also unerringly track people or objects through space.
As a Legionnaire, Dawnstar has some personal combat training and wears the LSH flight ring (for its nonflight-related uses). Art by James Sherman

Alter Ego: Doctor Zaxton Regulus
Occupation: Criminal
Marital Status: Unknown
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #348
Height: 5’9” Weight: 185 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown



While working in a nuclear plant on Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century, Doctor Zaxton Regulus experimented with the concept of multiplying solar energy via radioactive gold isotopes. An unforeseen accident caused the experiment to explode, taking the life of a young lab assistant and injuring Regulus and Dirk Morgna, the son of the plant manager. Regulus was fired and blamed Dirk for his dismissal. Seeking revenge, Regulus used robots to beat Dirk and left him to die in the core of the plant’s reactor, but Dirk survived and inadvertently gained super-powers.
Regulus then adopted a criminal lifestyle and continued his experiments with radioactive gold. He clashed with the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) and with his old nemesis, Dirk Morgna, now the Legionnaire called Sun Boy ( see Sun Boy ). Realizing that even the radioactive gold-powered devices he had created could not defeat Legionnaires, Regulus created the artificial Arion Star and used its energies to give himself solar powers.
He is currently incarcerated on Takron-Galtos, the prison planet.



Doctor Regulus now possesses solar energy powers, permitting him to generate heat or light from his person in quantities not measured by human technology. These powers must occasionally be recharged by exposure to the artificial Arion Star.
He has developed many weapons using radioactive gold as their power source, including large star-cruisers and robots. He has demonstrated no significant personal combat skills. Art by Pat Broderick

Alter Ego: Nura Nal
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Mysa (sister)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #317
Height: 5’9” Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Platinum



In the latter half of the 30th Century, Nura Nal received a prophetic vision of the deaths of several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) and journeyed to Earth to prevent her vision from coming true. Joining the Legion under the name Dream Girl, and utilizing the power shared by almost all inhabitants of her native planet Naltor to predict the future, Nura attempted to trick the Legionnaires into suspending or expelling all endangered members. In doing so, she seemingly destroyed Lightning Lass’ super-power, but in actuality merely transformed it into the ability to make objects super-lightweight ( see Lightning Lass ).
Her ulterior motives were ultimately revealed, and it was discovered that the vision she had was of android dummies of the Legionnaires being destroyed. Dream Girl resigned Legion membership, and served for a brief period with the Legion of Substitute Heroes ( see Legion of Substitute Heroes[/i] ), before rejoining the Legion permanently.
Nura’s sister, Mysa, was one of the rare Naltorians who did not have prophetic powers, a disadvantage that led to her circuitously gaining sorcerous powers and joining the Legion as White Witch ([i] see White Witch ).
Nura, on the other hand, is one of the most powerful precogs on Naltor, and is a leading candidate to one day become High Seer, a rank her mother had held. She remains a full-time Legionnaire, though, bound both by the call of duty and her long-standing relationship with Star Boy ( see Star Boy ), who fell in love with her at first sight.
She is considered the most beautiful and alluring Legionnaire.



Dream Girl possesses the ability to see the future as far as a year in advance, though her glimpses of events are mostly uncontrolled and partial. She is skilled at the advanced technology of Naltor, especially biotech, and is probably the second or third best scientist in the Legion.
As a Legionnaire, she has completed personal combat training (with honors) and wears the Legion flight ring, which allows her to fly at will. Art by James Sherman

Alter Ego: Luornu Durgo Taine
Occupation: Instructor
Marital Status: Married
Know Relatives: Chuck Taine (husband)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #276
Height: 5’7” Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown



Luornu Durgo came to Earth from her native planet Cargg in the latter half of the 30th Century to join the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) as its first noncharter member. Possessing the ability to split herself into three identical people (as all natives of Cargg’s triple sun environment could by a peculiar factor of evolution), she demonstrated her power by separately convincing each of the three original Legionnaires that she had a mystery power that could benefit the team.
Taking the name Triplicate Girl, Luornu served honorably as a Legionnaire, and faced her most tragic moment when the renegade computer Computo ( see Computo ) murdered one of her three bodies. The psychic and physical trauma was indescribable to normal human, but Luornu’s other two selves survived and retained their Legion membership as Duo Damsel.
Realizing that a crush she had long had on Superboy ( see Superman ) was hopeless because she knew his destiny from her history books, she fell in love with Chuck Taine ( see Bouncing Boy ) when he lost his powers. They were married, and retired from active duty with the Legion. Both now serve as instructors at the Legion Academy ( see Legion Academy ) and as reserve members of the Legion.



Duo Damsel can split herself into two identical bodies. As a Legionnaire, she has completed personal combat training satisfactorily and wears the Legion flight ring, which allows her to fly at will. Art by Mary Wilshire & Dick Giordano

Alter Ego: Ord Quelu or Quelu Ord
Occupation: Professional Super-Hero
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Heroes of Lallor
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #324
Height: 6’2” Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown



An accidental atomic explosion on the planet Lallor in the middle of the 30th Century affected the genes of Ord Quelu’s parents as well as those of several other couples. The five children born to these couples each possessed unique powers, and were exiled from their planet in their youth by a dictator.
After their arrival on Earth, they were briefly tricked by a man named Doctor Marden King into battling the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) as he sought revenge for the death of his brother, a criminal known as Jungle King. This led to Duplicate Boy falling in love with Shrinking Violet ( see Shrinking Violet ), a Legionnaire.
They kept up their long-distance romance intermittently, making use of Duplicate Boy’s remarkable ability to duplicate the powers of any other hero or villain, which enabled him to imitate Superboy ( see Superman ) and speed across the galaxy in hours. The relationship recently ended when Duplicate Boy failed to rescue Violet when an imposter took her place in the Legion.
In keeping with the style of Lallor, Duplicate Boy’s two names may be said or written in either order.



Duplicate Boy possesses the unique power of being able to duplicate any other individual’s super-powers. No limitations on this power are known, but that is as much a result of his limited imagination (which usually makes him adapt only powers he is familiar with and those only one at a time for short times) as any possible limits.
He has no training in use of his powers, personal combat, or much of anything else, and has no weapons. On the basis of his powers alone, however, he is arguably the most powerful hero of the 30th Century. Art by Jerry Bingham & Dick Giordano

Alter Ego: James Bartholomew (Jimmy) Olsen
Occupation: Reporter
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Mark Olsen (father)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: The City of Metropolis
First Appearance: (as Jimmy) ACTION COMICS #6 (as Elastic Lad) JIMMY OLSEN #31
Height: 5’10” Weight: 164 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Red



Jimmy Olsen, famous as one of Superman’s best friends, has risen over the years from office boy to cub reporter to one of the top reporters for Metropolis’s Daily Planet newspaper.
Superman once found and brought back a chest that was floating in space and that contained a bottle of a mysterious green glowing liquid. Jimmy tripped and broke the bottle, the contents of which splashed all over him. The liquid gave Jimmy superhuman stretching abilities, and he became known as Elastic Lad. Shortly thereafter, Jimmy lost his new powers through exposure to Kryptonite radiation.
Sometime later, Jimmy’s friend, the eccentric scientist Professor Phineas Potter, developed a serum that could give people stretching powers. Olsen drank the serum and again became Elastic Lad. The serum only grants powers temporarily, however, and they soon wore off. Olsen has become Elastic Lad occasionally over the years, although he has not done so recently.
Upon passing an initiation test, Olsen was inducted as an honorary member of the 30th Century’s Legion of Super-Heroes in his role as Elastic Lad ( see LSH ).



Professor Potter’s “elastic serum” gives Olsen the power to stretch any part of his body to incredible lengths for a limited period of time. The exact time limit appears to depend on the amount of serum that Olsen drinks. As Elastic Lad, Olsen can stretch his entire body so as to become a giant in size (but not in mass). Kryptonite radiation will not undo the effects of Potter’s serum.
The relationship, if any, of Potter’s serum to the Elongated Man’s gingold extract, or to the chemicals that gave Plastic Man his stretching powers, is unknown.
As Elastic Lad, Olsen wears a special costume that expands and contracts as he does.
Olsen is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant but, without his Elastic Lad powers, not an extraordinary one. Art by Howard Bender & Romeo Tanghal

Alter Ego: Jan Arrah
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #307
Height: 5’11” Weight: 170 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond



In the latter half of the 30th Century, pirates led by Roxxas, a notorious space raider, destroyed the planet Trom. Jan Arrah, an adolescent child at the time, was the only survivor of Trom, and fled secretly to Earth. Keeping his identity and powers secret, Jan was accepted for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) at the urging of its then-leader, Saturn Girl ( see Saturn Girl ).
Taking the name Mystery Lad, Jan joined the Legionnaires in hunting down Roxxas, after whose capture he felt free to reveal his powers and background. Like all natives of Trom’s bizarre radioactive environment, Jan possesses the power to transform elements at will, changing iron into helium, for example. With his powers revealed, Jan adopted the name Element Lad for the rest of his Legion career.
His lonely personal life has left him an unusually devoted and active member of the Legion, and his only close friend outside the team is Shvaughn Erin of the Science Police.
Element Lad is currently serving his second consecutive term as Legion leader, after four terms as deputy leader.



Element Lad possesses the power to alter the elements, moving them up or down the periodic table at will. As a corollary to this power, he can also sense the elemental structure of anything. There are definite, but unknown, limits to his power – in terms of the quantity of matter he can transform at any one time, the total amount he can handle before exhaustion sets in – and he has demonstrated the ability to make only one or two transformations occur simultaneously.
As a Legionnaire he has completed personal combat training with undistinguished results, and wears the Legion flight ring, which allows him to fly at will. Art by Colleen Doran & Karl Kesel

Alter Ego: Saryva
Occupation: Conqueror
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: The Fatal Five
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #352
Height: 5’7” Weight: 125 lbs.
Eyes: Green Hair: Green



In the middle of the 30th Century, Saryva discovered the legendary Emerald Eye of the lost Ekron civilization on her native planet of Vengar. She used the Eye’s nearly unlimited power for a variety of evil purposes, and at one point conquered Vengar.
Joining together with a group of the galaxy’s worst villains summoned by the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) to defeat the menacing Sun-Eater, she became a charter member of the Fatal Five ( see Fatal Five ). She has worked with her fellow members on several occasions, but continues an independent career in an attempt to dominate her own planet or an acceptable substitute.



Saryva has no personal abilities or skills other than a driving will to conquer and the greater-than-human physical strength of all inhabitants of Vengar.
The Emerald Eye of Ekron may be an artifact of an offshoot of the Oans, as it uses an emerald energy of seemingly unlimited power and is virtually indestructible. The Eye is controlled by Saryva’s will power, and appears weakened only in the presence of green Kryptonite. Art by Curt Swan & Karl Kesel

When the Milky Way galaxy and Earth’s sun were endangered by the mysterious Sun-Eater in the latter half of the 30th Century, five of the worst criminals in the galaxy were brought together by the Legion of Super-Heroes ( see LSH ) to help save civilization. The villains assisted the Legionnaires in the destruction of the Sun-Eater, although the final victory was only achieved by the ultimate sacrifice of Ferro Lad ( see Ferro Lad ), one of the Legionnaires. Although the Fatal Five had earned pardons by their actions, they rejected them and banded together to attempt the conquest of the worlds they had saved.
The members of the Fatal Five are the allegedly deceased Tharok ( see Tharok ), their leader; Emerald Empress ( see Emerald Empress ); Mano ( see Mano ); the Persuader ( see Persuader ); and Validus ( see Validus ), whose nearly mindless behavior was often controllable by Tharok through a variety of technological means.
During their career the Fatal Five have proved powerful enough to conquer an entire planet while still trapped in another dimension ( see Shadow Lass ), and to have conclusively been the arch-foes of the Legion.
The egos, as well as the evil, of the Fatal Five are so great that the group continues to exist principally in name only, as the members unite only by coincidence or desperate need.

First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #352

Art by Steve Lightle & Bill Wray