{"id":3690,"date":"2022-02-09T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:46:22","slug":"658-the-legion-of-super-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/658-the-legion-of-super-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"658 &#8211; The Legion of Super-Heroes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-legion-of-super-heroes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1004\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-legion-of-super-heroes.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #247, February 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-legion-of-super-heroes.png 1004w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-legion-of-super-heroes-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-legion-of-super-heroes-768x327.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #247, February 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 1958, Adventure Comics #247 introduced a set of heroes from the future that come to taunt Superboy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legion_of_Super-Heroes\">Legion of Super-Heroes<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmic_Boy\">Cosmic Boy<\/a> has super-magnetism, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturn_Girl\">Saturn Girl<\/a> has &#8220;super-thought casting&#8221;, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garth_Ranzz\">Lightning Lad<\/a> has &#8220;super-lightning&#8221; (in this first story he has the name &#8220;Lightning Boy&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For future super-pals, they are pretty cruel. First, they trick Superboy into thinking regular kids know his secret identity, then bring him to the future to admit him into their club if he passes their tests, but use their super-powers against him to make him fail their tests. Superboy ends up actually crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-superboy-in-tears.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-superboy-in-tears.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Adventure Comics #247, February 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-superboy-in-tears.png 494w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-superboy-in-tears-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195802-superboy-in-tears-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Adventure Comics #247, February 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But they explain that it was all part of his &#8220;initiation&#8221; and to prove he is a &#8220;super-good sport&#8221;. Anyway, I&#8217;m really excited to see the Legion debut!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 1958, Adventure Comics #247 introduced a set of heroes from the future that come to taunt Superboy, the Legion of Super-Heroes. Cosmic Boy has super-magnetism, Saturn Girl has &#8220;super-thought casting&#8221;, and Lightning Lad has &#8220;super-lightning&#8221; (in this first story he has the name &#8220;Lightning Boy&#8221;). For future super-pals, they are pretty cruel. First, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,14,472,304],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-598","tag-dc","tag-legion-of-super-heroes","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}