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Alter Ego: Uncertain
Occupation: Conqueror
Marital Status: Uncertain
Know Relatives: Uncertain
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: 30th Century
First Appearance: SUPERBOY #223
Height: 7’0” Weight: 250 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: None

HISTORY


In the latter half of the 30th Century, a being calling himself Pulsar Stargrave became known as one of the most dangerous evil forces in the United Planets’ sphere of influence. Considered a peer of Mordru (see Mordru), Stargrave struck at the Time Trapper (see Time Trapper) and Mordru through the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH).
Nothing substantive is known of Stargrave’s origin. At one point he posed as the father of Brainiac Five (see Brainiac Five), at another as the original Brainiac, in each case transformed by an incident involving a stellar accident. He has also described himself as the incarnate heart of a star. All of these may or may not contain an element of truth. His physical characteristics do indicate a potential native of Colu, homeworld of Brainiac Five’s family.
Stargrave was originally served by two aides: Quicksand, a beautiful young woman with the power to make anything liquid; and Holdur, who had a vise-like grip.

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The exact nature of Pulsar Stargrave’s powers, like his origins, are shadowed in mystery. However, he has demonstrated powers consistent with his claim to control the energies of a living star: the projection of heat, light, and great energy, including the ability to use red sun wavelengths to weaken those of Kryptonian descent. He also possesses physical strength of incredible degree, and is apparently indestructible.
Art by Keith Pollard & Willie Blyberg

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Alter Ego: Unknown
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Inapplicable
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #14
Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown
Eyes: None Hair: None

HISTORY


Quislet claims to be an explorer from an unnamed and unknown microdimension that discovered our universe and decided to stay here for reasons undisclosed. On arrival, Quislet volunteered to join the local law enforcement authorities, and made a pest of itself at Science Police headquarters before applying for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH).
Although background checks on Quislet were obviously impossible, it was accepted for Legion membership without a great deal of suspicion. Quislet has performed satisfactorily in its first several Legion missions.

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Quislet lives in a small, apparently perpetually powered vessel that is capable of movement in space, planetary atmospheres, or between certain types of dimensions. Quislet can emerge from the vessel in an energy-like form, and in that form “possess” inanimate solid objects and exert control over their form. Objects that Quislet possesses disintergrate shortly thereafter.
Art by Greg LaRocque & Art Nichols

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Alter Ego: Imra Ardeen Ranzz
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Married
Know Relatives: Garth Ranzz (husband), Ayla Ranzz (sister-in-law), Mekt Ranzz (brother-in-law), Graym Ranzz (son), Validus (son)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #247
Height: 5’7” Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond

HISTORY


Imra Ardeen was traveling to Earth from her native Titan (a moon of Saturn) to join the Science Police in the latter half of the 30th Century. Her natural telepathic powers detected a plot to assassinate one of her fellow passengers, a wealthy man named R.J. Brande. Her announcement of the plot gave passengers Garth Ranzz (see Lightning Lad) and Rokk Krinn (see Cosmic Boy) the opportunity to use their distinctive powers to save Brande.
Brande suggested 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), with Imra taking her name Saturn Girl.
Learning that Zaryan the Conqueror was about to attack Earth, and that a Legionnaire was fated to die in the attack, Saturn Girl arranged to be elected leader and attempted to sacrifice herself. Lightning Lad intervened and gave his life for hers. Some months later, Lightning Lad was revived from his death-like state by the sacrifice of the life force of Proty (see Proty I), who had knocked Saturn Girl unconscious as she attempted to give her life for Lightning Lad’s.
This was the beginning of both the romance between Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, and of Saturn Girl’s two terms as Legion leader. She is still considered to have been one of the best leaders the team has ever had.
Eventually Imra and Garth were married, and under the terms of the original Legion constitution, both had to leave the team.
When the constitution was revised, they rejoined, only to retire to semi-advisory roles after the birth of their sons, Graym and Validus (see Validus).
Unknown to the Ranzzes, Graym was actually a twin, with his twin brother mystically stolen at birth, transplanted back in time, and transformed into the creature known as Validus by Darkseid (see Darkseid).

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Imra is one of the most gifted telepaths born on Titan, a world noted for its many mental marvels. She can read minds, communicate across language barriers, and even plant suggestions in a weak-minded individual.
As a Legionnaire, Imra had completed personal combat training with distinction. She wears the Legion flight ring, which permits her to fly.
Art by Curt Swan & Karl Kesel

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Alter Ego: Unknown
Occupation: Criminal
Marital Status: Unknown
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Villains
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #331
Height: 5’8” Weight: 140 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Red

HISTORY


Saturn Queen is apparently a native of Titan, a moon of Saturn, born in the latter half of the 30th Century. She battled the Legion of Super-Heroes (see Legion Super-Heroes) along with Lightning Lord (see Lightning Lord) and Cosmic King (see Cosmic King), as a [member of the] Legion of Super-Villains (see Legion of Super-Villains). However, these were not the villains, nor the Legion of Super-Villains, who were the Legionnaires’ contemporaries. Rather, these were older villains claiming to have come to the Legion’s time from their own future.
It is unknown whether these claims are true, or if a younger version of Saturn Queen will indeed battle the Legionnaires.
In one adventure Saturn Queen’s criminal tendencies were apparently cured when she was exposed to a chunk of rock from Saturn’s rings.
Saturn Queen is currently in custody on a prison world in deep space.

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Saturn Queen has the power of super-hypnosis, a set of mental abilities that include telepathy and some power of hypnotic control. She has no significant combat abilities or weapons. Art by Dan Jurgens & Bob Oksner

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Alter Ego: Projectra
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Widowed
Know Relatives: Voxv (father), Hagga (grandmother), Pharoxx (cousin), Val Armorr (husband)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #346
Base of Operations: 30th-Century Earth
Height: 5’10” Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: White

HISTORY


Projectra was heir to the throne of Orando, a feudal world belonging to the United Planets in the latter half of the 30th Century. Granted the power of illusion at birth by mystics on her world, she joined the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH) while visiting Earth.
While a Legionnaire, she met and fell in love with Val Armor, the Karate Kid (see Karate Kid). They were wed shortly after Projectra’s father, Voxv, died and she assumed the throne of Orando.
The Legion of Super-Villains (see LSV), led by Nemesis Kid (see Nemesis Kid), conquered Orando while Projectra and Karate Kid were on their honeymoon. They returned in time to free Orando from the Super-Villains with the assistance of the Legion, but in the ensuing battle Karate Kid was killed. Projectra executed Nemesis Kid for the murder with her bare hands and decided it was best for Orando to remain apart form the United Planets and the balance of human civilization. Using technology the Super-Villains had built, she took Orando out of Earth’s universe into another dimension where it would be safe from contamination.
The nobility of Orando required Queen Projectra to do penance for bringing chaos to their world. She was ordered back to Earth, but this time with her identity and wealth hidden behind a new identity.
Projectra cast an illusion about herself and took the name Sensor Girl, rejoining the Legion with Saturn Girl’s assistance (see Saturn Girl). Her illusions were far more effective now, with people unaware that they were merely illusions, and she added powers that she received from the mystics of Orando as their rightful ruler.
Projectra has recently chosen to remain among the Legionnaires as Sensor Girl, her true identity remaining a secret to all outsiders.


POWERS & WEAPONS


Sensor Girl can create completely realistic illusions that affect one or more senses. She can also “see through the illusion of the world,” or use her senses to a greater degree than a normal individual. Besides being the equivalent of super-vision or super-hearing, this ability makes her sensitive to other information at a distance – as a normal person can sense a change in temperature in a room, she can sense temperature changes on a whole world, or she can literally smell a change in the air.
Sensor Girl graduated personal combat training with distinction as a Legionnaire, and is believed to have received additional training from her husband. As a Legionnaire, she wears the LSH flight ring, which allows her to fly.
Art by Steve Lightle

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Alter Ego: Tasmia Mallor
Occupation: Heroine
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Lydea Mallor (ancestor), Grev Mallor (cousin)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #365
Base of Operations: 30th-Century Earth
Height: 5’8” Weight: 120 lbs.
Eyes: Black Hair: Black

HISTORY


Tasmia Mallor is the latest in a line of champions that have emerged from Talok VIII for over a thousand years. In the latter half of the 30th Century, she and her cousin Grev entered a ritual cave in which a black cloud acted on their genetic heritage and unleashed their powers. Tasmia became Shadow Lass, heroine of Talok VIII, and Grev her understudy.
When the Fatal Five (see Fatal Five) conquered Talok VIII, Shadow Lass was off-planet. She took advantage of her freedom to lead the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH) back to Talok VIII. Together they defeated the Fatal Five, and Shadow Lass chose to accept a permanent membership in the Legion, after winning temporary membership on the battlefield. She was the first Legionnaire to earn her membership in this manner.
Grev remained on Talok VIII, though he briefly traveled to Earth to study at the Legion Academy (see Legion Academy).
Shadow Lass was first attracted to Brainiac Five (see Brainiac Five), who she met in the battle for her homeworld, but eventually fell in love with Mon-El (see Mon-El). Their romance has been an enduring one, in which she brings light to the darkness in his soul.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Shadow Lass can project vast quantities of darkness, in the form of a negative energy that absorbs visible light frequencies and surrounding parts of the spectrum, such as infrared and ultraviolet light.
Shadow Lass is reasonably skilled at personal combat training and has been a lifelong athlete in preparation for her heroic career. She wears the LSH flight ring, which permits her to fly.
Art by Steve Lightle

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Alter Ego: Salu Digby
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Arn Digby (father)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #247
Height: 5’2” Weight: 95 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black

HISTORY


Salu Digby’s parents were natives of Imsk, where everyone has the power to shrink to tiny size. Born on Earth in the latter half of the 30th Century, her powers were considered unusual on Earth, but after a time she decided to use them for good.
Salu was rejected on her first application to join the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH), but reapplied and was admitted as Shrinking Violet.
Recently, Violet was held prisoner for almost a year by radicals on Imsk while a Durlan shape-changer took her place in the Legion. Although the imposter was detected and Violet freed, the events had a traumatic effect on her. Violet’s lengthy relationship with Duplicate Boy (see Duplicate Boy) broke off after she was freed, and she frequently seems alienated from her fellow Legionnaires.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Shrinking Violet can reduce her size from only inches tall to microscopic.
Shrinking Violet received extremely low grades in personal combat training when she first joined the LSH, but recent retraining earned her graduation with honors. Her LSH flight ring enables her to fly.
Art by Jamie Hernandez

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Alter Ego: Thom Kallor
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Fryd Kallor (father), Mira Kallor (mother)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #282
Height: 5’8” Weight: 160 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown

HISTORY


Thom Kallor was born in the unique floating observatory that his astronomer parents operated in the latter half of the 30th Century. The environment gave him the power to induce mass from the stars into objects, making them temporarily super-heavy – a power he first used as a child on the observatory itself, destroying it. After the observatory’s destruction his powers were diagnosed, and he spent his youth on his parents’ native Xanthu being tested by doctors.
Thom ran away at sixteen, in a spaceship he accidentally piloted through a comet. This temporarily gave him added powers similar to Superman’s kryptonian abilities (see Superman). With these powers he joined the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH) under the name Star Boy.
Star Boy’s second case as a Legionnaire was a solo assignment to Takron-Galtos to free some Science Police officers held captive by escaped prisoners. In the midst of this mission, his comet powers failed. During the ensuing struggle, Star Boy was severely injured, and was out of action for about a year.
The great love of Star Boy’s life has been Dream Girl (see Dream Girl). When her former lover, Kenz Nuhor, attacked Star Boy, the Legionnaire killed him in self-defense. A full court of Legionnaires decided the killing had been avoidable, and Star Boy was expelled from membership.
Star Boy served briefly with the Legion of Substitute Heroes (see Legion of Substitute Heroes) before rejoining the LSH permanently.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Star Boy has the power to induce mass from the stars to make objects or people super-heavy, even to the extent of being able to simulate the gravity of a giant world like Krypton. The effect is only temporary, however.
During the period when his powers were enhanced by exposure to a comet, Star Boy gained powers similar to a Kryptonian’s, except without many of the limitations (such as being able to see through lead, although he could not see through copper). These powers included super-strength, super-speed, flight, and super-senses as well as invulnerability and a special power: electric vision.
Star Boy has completed personal combat training with indifferent results, and wears the LSH flight ring which permits him to fly.
Art by Greg LaRocque and Joe Rubinstein

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Alter Ego: Dr. Lars Hanscom
Occupation: Criminal
Marital Status: Unknown
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: None
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #331
Height: 5’11” Weight: 190 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Grey

HISTORY


Dr. Lars Hanscom was a noted physician horrified by the thought of aging and losing his faculties. When Lightning Lad (see Lightning Lad) came under his care in the latter half of the thirtieth century, Hanscom hypnotized him into becoming a costumed criminal named Starfinger. Using Lightning Lad’s electrical energies to power a variety of effects, Hanscom attempted to secure rejuvium, a rare element that would restore his youth. He was defeated by Lightning Lad’s comrades in the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH).
Hanscom has subsequently adopted the identity of Starfinger directly, and on at least one occasion used unknown technology to simulate the powers Lightning Lad had demonstrated in the Starfinger costume.
Starfinger is probably the most cowardly of the major villains of the thirtieth century, choosing to strike repeatedly at the Legionnaires through proxies.

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Starfinger possesses no known powers of his own, and is a poor combatant.
Art by Martin King & Dell Barras

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Alter Ego: Dag Wentim
Occupation: Unemployed
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Substitute Heroes
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #282
Height: 5’8” Weight: 150 lbs.
Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown

HISTORY


Dag Wentim was born on Zwen, whose natives possess the power to turn to solid stone for periods of suspended animation. In the latter half of the 30th century, he traveled to Earth and applied for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH), but was rejected.
Taking the name Stone Boy, he joined with four other rejected applicants to form the Legion of Substitute Heroes (see Legion of Substitute Heroes). Although originally a secret organization, it was soon discovered by the Legionnaires, who held a contest to determine the Sub who most deserved LSH membership. Stone Boy won, but refused to leave his friends, becoming the first person to turn down Legion membership.
With the recent dissolution of the Substitute Heroes, Stone Boy has found no fixed occupation.

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Stone Boy can transform himself into a relatively invulnerable stone-like form, which is immobile and inflexible.
He is a mediocre physical combatant, and wears the LSH flight ring which permits him to fly in normal form only.
Art by Richard Bruning & Karl Kesel

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Alter Ego: Dirk Morgna
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Derek Morgna (father)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #290
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
Height: 6’0” Weight: 180 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond

HISTORY


Dirk Morgna was helping out at a research reactor plant being run by his father, Derek, when an accident injured him and killed another young man. It was determined that the accident was caused by Dr. Zaxton Regulus’ (see Doctor Regulus) unauthorized research. Regulus was fired, but vowed vengeance on the Morgnas. Regulus returned, using robots to beat Dirk and leave him to die overnight in an unprotected area of the reactor. Instead, the exposure to radiation gave Dirk solar powers.
Taking the name Sun Boy, he applied for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH). After being initially rejected, he was accepted for training and ultimately inducted.
Sun Boy has become one of the most active Legionnaires, while also being the most visible Legionnaire on the social scene on Earth. Although he’s had many brief relationships, he has never been associated with any one woman for any length of time.
Among the most notable battles in which Sun Boy has been important to the Legion are their several fights with Doctor Regulus, and the attack of the Sun Eater (see Sun Eater) who was lured from destroying Earth by Sun Boy’s power.

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Sun Boy can project heat and light in controlled quantities, ranging from enough light to brighten a dark room to momentary bursts of near stellar intensity.
Sun Boy has completed personal combat training with satisfactory results, and wears the LSH flight ring which permits him to fly.
Art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

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The Sun-Eater is an artificial life-form, constructed by the Controllers (see Controllers) as one of their weapons to control evil in the universe. When a world grew too evil, a Controller would unleash the Sun-Eater and it would literally eat the world and its star-sun.
In the 20th century, Mongul [an interstellar conqueror] killed a Controller and stole a Sun-Eater to use against the Earth and Superman (see Superman). With the assistance of the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH), Superman defeated Mongul and destroyed the Sun-Eater, which was apparently an immature specimen and not in full power.
In the latter half of the 30th Century, a mature Sun-Eater was directed to move towards Earth by a renegade Controller. Destroying several stars en route, it was noticed by astronomers, and the Legion attempted to stop it. To aid them, they enlisted the help of five of the galaxy’s deadliest villains, who also had a stake in their own survival. Five Legionnaires and the five villains (who subsequently formed the Fatal Five (see Fatal Five) battled the creature, but were unable to destroy it. They detected a nucleonic core as the Sun-Eater’s “heart,” and devised an anti-energy bomb to destroy it. Ferro Lad (see Ferro Lad) carried the bomb to the core, and was destroyed along with the creature.
The Legionnaires subsequently destroyed a planet in a limbo dimension on which Sun-Eaters and other weapons of great destructive potential were being manufactured by the Controllers.

POWERS & WEAPONS


The Sun-Eater is capable of greater than light speed between stars. When near a star or planet, it is capable of absorbing its energies and mass, draining it totally. Acting in its defense, the Sun-Eater is capable of instinctually focusing solar energy that it has absorbed.

First Appearance: ADVENTURE COMICS #352

Art by Curt Swan & Larry Mahlstedt

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Alter Ego: Linda Lee Danvers
Real Name: Kara Zor-El
Occupation: Student, TV Camera Operator, Student Advisor, TV Actress
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Zor-El (father), Alura (mother), Kal-El (cousin), Jor-El (uncle, deceased), Lara (aunt, deceased), Fred and Edna Danvers (adoptive parents)
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
Base of Operations: Midvale, Stanhope University, San Francisco, Santa Augusta, Florida, New York City, and finally Chicago
First Appearance: ACTION COMICS #252
Height: 5’7” Weight: 123 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Blonde

HISTORY


On the ill-fated planet Krypton, Zor-El was the greatest scientist in Argo City, and the creator of the weather-proof plastic dome that covered the city. When the planet exploded, Argo was hurled into space in one piece, with its atmosphere kept intact by the dome. A few years later, Zor-El’s daughter Kara was born.
When the ground beneath the city turned to deadly Anti-Kryptonite, a floor of sheet lead was laid to protect the people. However, when Kara was 15, a meteor shower struck the city. The dome was of self-sealing plastic, but the lead was punctured, releasing the Anti-Kryptonite rays and dooming the population.
Having discovered Superman’s presence on Earth (see Superman), Zor-El and Alura used a small rocket to send Kara there, to be united with her cousin. Her mother made a costume for her – the first of many different outfits she would wear during her career – similar to her famous cousin’s.
Superman took her to Midvale Orphanage, where she disguised herself with a brown wig and used the name Linda Lee. At first, she was the Man of Steel’s secret weapon while he trained her to use her powers.
Superman finally decided to reveal her to the world but tragedy struck and she temporarily lost her powers due to plots of a Kandorian villainess. During this period she was adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers. When she recovered her powers, she revealed her true identity to her adoptive parents and Superman presented her to the world.
At Midvale High, Linda befriended Lena Thorul, Luthor’s sister (see Luthor). Later Linda went to Stanhope University on a scholarship, and after graduation worked for a time at station KSF-TV in San Francisco. She briefly returned to college to study acting, worked for some time as a student advisor at the New Athens Experimental School in Santa Augusta, Florida, and worked for a short time in New York as an actress on the soap opera Secret Hearts. She left to go back to college, this time at Lake Shore University in Chicago.
Meantime, while still in high school, she discovered her parents had escaped destruction by entering the Survival Zone, a dimension somewhat similar to the Phantom Zone (see Phantom Zone). With the help of Fred Danvers (a scientist and engineer), she freed them and they went to live in Kandor.
During the crisis on infinite earths, Supergirl and Superman were sent with other heroes on a mission to the anti-matter universe. There she destroyed the Anti-Monitor’s machines, but was herself killed, sacrificing her life to save several Earths.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Supergirl had all the powers of Superman, including super-strength, invulnerability, flight, super-speed, X-ray vision, heat vision, microscopic and telescopic vision, super-breath, super-ventriloquism, and a super-brain.
Art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

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Alter Ego: Clark Kent
Occupation: Adventurer, Reporter, Novelist
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: Jor-El (father, deceased), Lara (mother, deceased), Jonathan Kent (adoptive father), Martha Clark Kent (adoptive mother), Henry Kent (adoptive uncle, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Justice League of America (reserve member)
Base of Operations: Metropolis
First Appearance: (current version) ACTION COMICS #1
Height: 6’3” Weight: 225 lbs.
Eyes: Blue Hair: Black

HISTORY


Superman, Earth’s greatest and most famous hero, is the sole survivor of the destruction of his home planet Krypton. His father, Jor-El, discovered that a nuclear chain reaction within Krypton’s core was responsible for the planet’s recent severe earthquakes. Pressures within Krypton’s crust had fused metals into a new element, Kryptonite, whose radiations were killing Kryptonians. Realizing that pressures from the chain reaction would shatter the planet, Jor-El had his unborn son removed from the Kryptonian Gestation Chambers and had his son’s life-matrix attached to an experimental star-drive unit. Jor-El then launched his son towards the distant planet Earth, just before Krypton exploded.
Superman was, in effect, born on Earth. A young couple, Jonathan and Martha Kent, found the infant and the starcraft and brought him to their farm in Smallville. Since he appeared entirely human, the Kents did not believe the baby to be extraterrestrial, but suspected he might be the victim of a cruel experiment. He had no super-powers at this time. Months later, the Kents revealed the child’s existence, asserting he was their natural offspring. They named him Clark, after Martha’s maiden name.
As Clark grew older, his Kryptonian body continually absorbed solar energy from Earth’s yellow sun and began developing super-human powers. At first Clark used his evolving powers to become a sports champion in high school. When Clark was eighteen, Jonathan took him to the field where his starcraft still lay hidden and explained how he and Martha had found him. Clark was astonished by this revelation, but on approaching the craft, fell victim to weakness. Unknown to Clark or Jonathan, this weakness was caused by a piece of Kryptonite embedded in the rocket – the only specimen of that element on Earth.
Clark resolved to use his powers from then on only for the good of mankind. For five years Clark used his powers secretly help people and to prevent disasters, but finally was forced to act publicly to save a NASA space-plane that was struck by a small aircraft while on a landing approach to a Metropolis Airport, and threatened to crash. After rescuing the plane, Clark was mobbed by people, and he fled back to Smallville.
There his adoptive parents helped him design a costumed secret identity, which he would use when using his powers in public. They called this identity “Superman” after the name given him in an article by the Metropolis Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane, a passenger on the space-plane. From then on he used glasses and other means as Clark to make himself look different than Superman.
Superman has since operated worldwide as a champion of truth and justice, ever ready to help those in need. As Clark Kent he won a job at the Daily Planet by being the first person to turn in a detailed story about Superman. He is now a feature reporter for the Planet and a successful novelist. Billionaire Lex Luthor, a leading Metropolis citizen, has become Superman’s archfoe. Superman is a reserve member of the Justice League of America. Recently, Superman has learned he is a native of the planet Krypton.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Superman is from Krypton, which had a red sun, but under Earth’s yellow sun, his Kryptonian cells act as living solar batteries, absorbing solar energy and giving him superhuman powers. These powers have steadily developed and increase, as he grows older.
Superman possesses vast superhuman strength. It has been theorized that he could easily lift the weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, were it possible to do so without destroying the structure.
Superman’s body is so nearly indestructible that, although he can be knocked over by cannon fire, no conventional artillery can harm him. He can even survive a nuclear blast unharmed, but he can nonetheless be injured by a sufficiently great force.
Superman can see and hear over vast distances, and is limited in this only by the speeds of light and sound. He can also see in microscopic detail, and can see well beyond the range of visible light. His so-called “X-ray vision,” which does not actually involve X-rays, enables him to see through objects. His power to generate heat within objects manifests itself as a red glow within his eyes, and has therefore been dubbed “heat vision.”
Superman can move at superhuman speed. By force of will he can defy gravity and fly. He must fill his lungs with air before flying through outer space.
His irradiated cells generate a force field that renders nearly indestructible any material in close physical contact with him, such as his skin-tight costume.
Like all creatures, Superman is vulnerable to magic. Kryptonite radiation reduces Superman’s powers and is almost immediately lethal to him. (Prolonged exposure will kill any living being.) Kryptonite radiation’s effect on Superman is not cumulative, and he will regain full health and power on being separated from the radiation source.
Art by Curt Swan & John Byrne

[NOTE: This entry reflects post-Crisis information. See also Superboy.]

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Alter Ego: Ganglios
Occupation: Legionnaire
Marital Status: Single
Know Relatives: None
Group Affiliation: Legion of Super-Heroes
First Appearance: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #304
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
Height: 6’ Weight: 315 lbs.
Eyes: Green Hair: None

HISTORY


Ganglios was born on Hykraius, a gigantic watery world in the latter half of the 30th century. Although poisonous elements in the atmosphere and water of Hykraius kept contact with humans to a minimum, Ganglios learned of the existence of the Legion of Super-Heroes (see LSH).
Traveling to Earth, he was accepted at the Legion Academy (see Legion Academy), hoping to learn more about the Legion so he could start a similar organization on his homeworld.
With the assistance of portable life-support equipment designed by Brainiac Five (see Brainiac Five), he was able to move about freely, and recently joined the Legion under the name Tellus.
Little is known about the origin of Tellus’ powers, and it is speculated that they are in many ways different from the norm on Hykraius.

POWERS & WEAPONS


Tellus has the power to read minds and communicate telepathically across relatively short distances. In addition, he can focus his mental energy in a form of telekinesis that can move objects or serve as pure force beams.
Tellus has no ability to survive in personal combat in a human environment, though he reputedly would be able to fight in a watery atmosphere like his native world’s. Tellus wears the LSH flight ring, which permits him to fly.
Art by Steve Lightle

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