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Ooh Scavenger is a good guess. He appeared in the Reboot, but he didn't use the H-Dial that I can recall

Scavenger did not actually use the H-Dial. This was a pre-boot story, anyway.

It's been long enough. The guy's name was Nylor Truggs, he was seen only that once, in New Adventures of Superboy # 50. stile, next question to you.

Oh I actually have that issue. And I bought it partly because of the H Dial on the cover. ( The other part was because of the Anniversary branding) This was just before I started colleting the Legion although I had a few issues. I would never have remembered the guys name though.

Good question. I only remembered the cover...then nuffink. Stunned thete isn't an All Nylor Truggs thread.

It's actually pretty funny that Benn Pares and Magpie are more prominent in Legion fans' minds than Truggs, as neither of them actually appeared in more than one issue either. It's likely because they were a) in the Legion's main title rather than in a guest shot in another title, b) had entries in Who's Who in the LSH, and c) mentioned (without actual appearances) in the TMK era.

I learned something new today!!

Thanks Chaim. I never would have remembered his name.

A 30th Century sorcerer is the indirect cause of Superboy fighting a young 20th Century girl who will become famous in later years. Who is she?

Um... Black Alice?

Jane Goodall?

Lois Lane

None of those. Lois Lane is closest but the person in question is not part of the Superman family of characters, but was nevertheless well known to readers of the time (1977).

I am blanking a bit...maybe a young Wonder Woman?

Batgirl?

VIcki Vale?

Thoth has it! It was a young (about 10?) Barbara Gordon.

In Superboy #230 "The Creature who Conned the Legion" by Paul Levitz, the Legion defeated Sden a sorcerer from the galaxy Trevenon (who looked something like a giant octopus in a spacesuit). To keep the mystic Crystal out of Sden's hands ... er ... tentacles, Superboy put it in the pocket in his cape and took it back to the 20th Century. (As I have seen someone point out that doesn't guarantee that it couldn't be found again a thousand years later but I digress.) Then in Adventure Comics #453 "You too can be a Super-Hero" by Bob Rozakis, Superboy/Clark Kent is at a youth camp where, during an acted out ghost story, the very young sister (?) of one of the youths suddenly turns into "Mighty Girl" and goes for the ghosts. Fortunately the first one she hits is Clark and he, after a quick change to Superboy, manages to stop her hurting anyone else, even after she accidentally starts a forest fire. When he discovers she got her powers from wishing he realises the crystal is the problem and he hurls it into the sun and Mighty Girl reverts back to a disappointed girl. Superboy gives her a talk about how just having powers don't make you a hero, but by developing her own skills and working really hard she could become a real super-hero someday, which of course the girl resolves to do, revealing her name to be Barbara Gordon as she does so.

Your turn Thoth.

nice question and nice story... I feel like checking it out! thanks!

Yay! I was actually going to guess Vicki Vale, as idle did, until Ibby's Wondy, and your not-the *Super* family hint swerved me.

I don't recall reading his one. I do remember Sden having an unimpressive pic in the Who's Who.

Amalgamax has all the powers of the Legion! Like his deceased father, he has a hatred for Superman and Batman. While his powers are soured from the Legion statuettes, he's even gone back in time to capture the energy from those statues so he can quickly recharge, whenever he likes. How do the Legion defeat such a powerful foe?

Overload him with energy?

Not overloading him.

The Adventure story isn't really a Legion story so much as a Superboy story. The only connection is the crystal from the Legion story and the Adventure writer even makes the mistake of attributing the crystal to Mordru. We don't know exactly where the crystal came from so it could have been created by Mordru but his only mention in the Legion story is that Dreamy foresaw that with it Sden could defeat Mordru. The other connection between the two is editorial text. In Superboy #230 after mentioning how Superboy was taking it back to the 20th Century out of Sden's reach, the end-of-story editorial reads "Maybe, maybe not -- because the crystal is the key to the dilemma in Superboy's first solo story in Adventure Comics #453." Then Adventure Comics has the caption "Okay, now watch closely! If you saw Superboy's last adventure with the Legion (Superboy Legion #230) you know that the boy of steel has in his cape a mystic crystal he took from the sinister sorcerer for safe-keeping --" so I thought it just qualified as Legion trivia.

Thoth: Melt the statues?

Projectra defeats Amalgamax by convincing him the he had contracted the same space disease that had killed his father, and that it had been endowed with the same super-energy that gave him his powers, so that the only way to cure it was to surrender to the Legionnaires once his super-energy charge ran out, so that they could use their fancy 30th century medicine to treat him.

EDE wins, and brings all the detail as well, leaving me to just type Over to you EDE!

Well, you could've pointed out that Batman suggested the plan!

nice! thanks for the details

and thanks for the other story recap, stile.

I have got to look this one up. Very curious.