Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Lost Tales of the Legion: Splitter! The Arm Fall Off Boy Origin

Arm Fall Off Boy. The character that made a mockery of the Legion. Endlessly picked up and made fun of, despite being a retconned character in a late 1980's issue of secret origins. It was always a frustration to see the Legion laughed at through this character.

But, then I spotted this cover:-



Superboy is getting thumped around by not one, not two, but three detached arms!



Superboy ends up believing that he is being attacked by three duplicates of his own arm, created during an experiment with Red Kryptonite. However, this doesn't explain why the arms look nothing like his or the armour and wristbands.

Surely possible is that he has been attacked by three residents of Arm Fall Off Boy's planet, as a trial to show the strength of a syndicate from that planet. Their demonstration completed, they vanish just as Superboy thinks he's uncovered the Red Kryptonite mystery.

A descendant of the people of this planet, Arm Fall off Boy, or Floyd Belkin, as he was later identified as, had little success in joining the Legion.



Yet, many Legionnaires were initially rejected from Sun Boy and Bouncing Boy to Violet and Super Girl. In Sun Boy's case he had to work to expand his powers before he was allowed in.

We can see the extent of Floyd's potential in his ancestors. They are able to teleport their super strong limbs across great distances to use in combat. They still had sensory control over the limbs they teleported too.

DC would have a character with similar powers much later than the Fists of Fury Superboy appearance. His name was Tempest, and he was part of Atari Force.



Tempest's teleportation powers would expand as he became more experienced, as might Floyd's.

So, from a boy who could remove an arm to someone with super strength and teleportation with attached super senses. From a joke character into one that could trouble a pre crisis Superboy, has his roots in the Silver Age and with an origin now drawn by George Papp as well as Curt Swan.

Don't think Arm Fall of Boy, think Fists of Fury Boy!