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I was just rereading LSH Archives Volume 2, and came across "The Doom of the Super-Heroes" - the one where Mask Man basically kills everybody.
If you remember that one, the splash page (a symbolic one, basically an internal cover, as was common for the series in those days) showed Mask Man spinning a wheel with the different Legionnaires faces, in order to decide who he would kill next.
There are 15 Legionnaires shown on that wheel. By my count, we'd seen 20 different members on the team up to this point.
This is a two part question: a. Who are the five members who are missing from that page? b. For which two members that are on that page does that image represent the only picture they have in their second appearance in a Legion story?
You've cottoned onto the fact that Lightning Lad wouldn't be there, as he was dead at the time, nor Supergirl, who just wasn't around all the time. Pete Ross wasn't there either, but I'm not counting him in my list of 20 Legionnaires since he didn't actually join the team as a proper Legionnaire.
Of the other two characters who don't appear in the panel, all three were definitely "active Legionnaires." Two did not appear all that often at the time, but the third was a major player in the story and in the series in general, so it's a bit of mystery that they don't show up.
Of the two who do make their second appearance in a Legion story on that panel, one had debuted a long time earlier, and the other only a couple of stories earlier.
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