Comic Title: Adventure Comics #317
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1964
On Sale Date: December 26, 1963 Copyright Date December 26, 1963
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1964

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Menace of Dream Girl"
Pages: 18

Feature(s):
Legion of Super-Heroes (of Earth-1)

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #502 (1983)
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 2 HC (1992)
Showcase Presents:Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Cosmic Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #316; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Lightning Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #316; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #111; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Chameleon Boy (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Bouncing Boy (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Triplicate Girl (last appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #72; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Mon-El (last appearance in Adventure Comics #316; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Shrinking Violet (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Adventure Comics #316; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Star Boy (origin retold and further details revealed; resumes active status in the Legion as of this story; last appearance in Adventure Comics #282; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Ultra Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #316; next appearance in Adventure Comics #319)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Matter-Eater Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Lightning Lass (changes her name from Lightning Lass and gains the new power to make objects super-lightweight, while losing her lightning powers; last appearance in Action Comics #309; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Dream Girl (Nura Nal; origin revealed; joins the Legion of Super-Heroes, but resigns in this story; next appearance in Adventure Comics #342)

Villain(s)

• Time Trapper (behind-the-scenes only; last appearance in Wonder Woman #101; next appearance in Adventure Comics #318)
• Three monster birds (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Rann Antar (a rejected Legion applicant; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed generator technicians and an unnamed spaceport captain (no further appearances)
• Inhabitants of an unnamed alien world (no further appearances)
• Androids doubles of Shrinking Violet, Lightning Lad, Bouncing Boy, Triplicate Girl, Lightning Lass, Matter-Eater Lad, and Ultra Boy (destroyed in this story; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Fryd and Myra Kallor (in flashback)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Doom of the Legion"

Synopsis:
Saturn Girl calls a meeting to discuss the Time Trapper and his Iron Curtain of Time, and to examine applicants for membership. The male members go wild over one gorgeous candidate, Dream Girl of Naltor, who has the ability to accurately predict future events. She successfully demonstrates this power, and is voted into the group by the boys over the girls' objections. Although she displays conscientiousness by studying the Legion's organization, particularly its Constitution, she also exhibits an insufferable conceit.

One by one, Lightning Lass (whose power is short-circuited when an electrical generator explodes), Triplicate Girl, Lightning Lad, Ultra Boy, and Matter-Eater Lad are expelled or suspended from the group after she tricks each into violating various clauses of the Legion Constitution. Star Boy is the only one to maintain complete faith in her, and she eventually admits to him that she foresaw the deaths of the expelled members in a rocket explosion, and joined the group to remove them and save their lives. He explains that she actually saw the "deaths" of lifeless android doubles, and so the members she tricked are reinstated.

Lightning Lass learns that Dream Girl has used Naltorian science to have the electrical explosion change her powers to that of making things super-lightweight, since her original ability duplicated her brother's.

Dream Girl resigns to perfect her own ability further, leaving Star Boy, who loves her, hoping that she'll return someday.