{"id":4346,"date":"2022-08-08T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2024-12-15T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T23:12:36","slug":"786-new-legionnaire-star-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/786-new-legionnaire-star-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"786 &#8211; New Legionnaire: Star Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion-1024x465.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #282, January 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion-e1657483398591-150x68.png 150w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196101-starboy-in-the-legion.png 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #282, January 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After all that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4330\">deeper thinking about character motivation<\/a>, it&#8217;s time for something light-hearted and fun: a new Legionnaire is introduced in Adventure Comics #282 (Jan 1961): Star Boy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lana wants to make Superboy jealous, so she eavesdrops as a new teen superhero arrives from the future to meet Superboy. She learns the teen&#8217;s identity is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thom_Kallor\">Thom Kallor<\/a> from the planet Xanthu. Sure, that&#8217;ll do. He was caught in the tail of a comet and it gave him invulnerability, super-strength, super-cooling-breath, infra-red vision, x-ray vision, and electrical vision and subsequently jjoined the 30th century Legion of Super-Heroes. He also can fly, but they have have not established that all Legionnaires can fly with flight rings yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Star Boy needs Superboy&#8217;s help to catch some criminals in the future, since his x-ray vision can&#8217;t see through copper. Why not? Of course Lana&#8217;s plan backfires and the two heroes team up to make her even more jealous. Not petty at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that the writers could have not made this a Legion story &#8211; there have been plenty of super-powered teen beings that come to Earth to interact with Superboy &#8211; and the Legion only appear in a single panel &#8211; but I guess this is the start of the deepening of the Legion mythos and world-building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all that deeper thinking about character motivation, it&#8217;s time for something light-hearted and fun: a new Legionnaire is introduced in Adventure Comics #282 (Jan 1961): Star Boy! Lana wants to make Superboy jealous, so she eavesdrops as a new teen superhero arrives from the future to meet Superboy. She learns the teen&#8217;s identity is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,14,301,464,472,762,712,329,304,660],"class_list":["post-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-dc","tag-future","tag-lana-lang","tag-legion-of-super-heroes","tag-roster-change","tag-star-boy","tag-super-powers","tag-superboy","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346","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=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4348,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions\/4348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}