Comic Title: Legion of Super-Heroes #50
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1988
On Sale Date: May 24, 1988 Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Copyright Date May 24, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Shipping Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Newsstand Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $2.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Life and Death and the End of Time"
Pages: 43

Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Levitz
Plotter/Penciller: Keith Giffen
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Wanderers #3)
• Blok (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #5)
• Dream Girl (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Element Lad (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Mon-El (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Polar Boy (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Quislet (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Sensor Girl (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Shadow Lass (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #5)
• Shrinking Violet (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #5)
• Tellus (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #48; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Timber Wolf (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Ultra Boy (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• White Witch (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Wanderers #3)

Guest Star(s)

• Infinite Man (Jaxon Rugarth; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Supporting Character(s)

• Duo Damsel (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Rond Vidar (revealed to be a Green Lantern in this story; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #49; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Bouncing Boy (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #47; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Computo (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #48; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51)
• Circadia Senius (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #37; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Time Trapper (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #38; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #3)

Comments:
One of Duo Damsel's remaining bodies is destroyed by the Time Trapper in this story.

This story is continued from Legion of Super-Heroes #49.

Synopsis:
With the assistance of Rond Vidar, Brainiac 5 finally creates a machine that can break the time barrier. The other Legionnaires reluctantly help him create the machine, despite their growing concerns about the conspiracy at work within the team. When the machine, which uses the power of Jaxon Rugarth the Infinite Man, is ready Brainiac 5 activates it. However, he manipulated the controls so that only his fellow conspirators were transported through time with him.

Brainiac 5, Mon-El, Saturn Girl, and Duo Damsel all arrive safely at the End of Time to confront the Time Trapper. Rond Vidar has also joined them to Brainy's surprise. The Legionnaires then battle the Time Trapper. Mon-El is physically defeated by the Trapper's might, Saturn Girl is unable to mentally dominate her foe, Duo Damsel has one of her bodies disintegrated by the villain, and Brainiac 5 is forced to admit the Trapper's power.

Rond surprises everyone by revealing that he is a Green Lantern, having inherited the power ring from his father Universo who was a rogue member of the Corps. Even the power ring is not enough to turn the battle against the Trapper. However, Brainiac 5 explains that the Trapper's belief that the universe has a defined beginning and end is only one theory. Another is that time is an infinite loop. This theory is represented by the Infinite Man, who suddenly appears.

As the Trapper's world implodes around them, the Infinite Man and the Time Trapper become locked in combat. A portal opens as the beginning and end of time become joined. Brainiac 5 uses his force shield to give the two giants a push through the vortex into oblivion. Rond then uses his power ring to trigger a recall device which transports the Legionnaires home secure in the knowledge that the Time Trapper has finally been defeated.