Comic Title: Legion of Super-Heroes #52
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
On Sale Date: July 19, 1988 Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 21, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Copyright Date July 19, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Newsstand Date August 2, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Rites of Passage"
Pages: 27

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 #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #4)
• Blok (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #55)
• Dream Girl (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #4)
• Element Lad (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Lightning Lass (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Magnetic Kid (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Mon-El (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Polar Boy (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Quislet (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #58)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #60)
• Shadow Lass (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• Tellus (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)

Supporting Character(s)

• Computo (last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #51; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #54)

Villain(s)

• Hywyndr (a Gil'Dishpan; next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)

Other Character(s)

• Doctor Mard (next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #53)
• A short blue man (next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #55)
• Visitors at the Trans-Cultural Museum (Fegerp and Anka named; no further appearances)
• Several Daxamite doctors (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While Polar Boy is left to deal with the departure of Brainiac 5, Magnetic Kid leads a team of Legionnaires to his homeworld Braal which is threatened by quakes. During the second quake, Tellus uses his telepathy to question large metallic beasts on the planet. From them they are able to trace the source of the quakes, a Gil'Dishpan name Hywyndr. However, the Legionnaires are unable to stop him.

Meanwhile, Shadow Lass takes Mon-El to Dazam in hopes that the doctors there can restore his body. Ultimately they cannot, but they are able to stabilize his condition, and he briefly regains consciousness.