Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 4 HC
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 4 HC
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Artist: Adam T. Hughes

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Title: "The Menace of the Sinister Super-Babies"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #338 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

Other Character(s)

  • Rall and Mitz Kem (Matter-Eater Lad's parents; next appearance in Action Comics #381)
  • Markita (Invisible Kid's girlfriend; no further appearances)
  • An unnamed director, an actress, a film crew, unnamed bank employees, the inhabitants of a far future era, and various citizens of 30th century Metropolis (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

  • Romeo, Juliet, and two unnamed characters (as statues)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Time-Trapper's Invincible Infant-ry"

Invisible Kid is called "Invisible Boy" in the Roll Call on the splash page of this story.

Superboy's name is misspelled "Super-Boy" once in this story.

Synopsis:
In his headquarters, millions of years in the future, the Time Trapper summons his assistant, Glorith of Baaldur, and gives her an hourglass which has the power to devolve anyone who touches it into protoplasmic slime. Her assignment is to pass through the Time Trapper's Iron Curtain of Time and use this weapon to destroy his hated foes, the Legion of Super-Heroes.

In the 30th century, Saturn Girl gathers the Legion and tells them they may have their long-awaited showdown with the Time Trapper at last. She leads them to an amusement park, where Glorith, who had mentally contacted Saturn Girl, waits. After demonstrating the Time Trapper's force-barrier ring to gain their trust, she has them touch the hourglass. Immediately they begin to become younger, but stop when they reach infancy because a chemical spray from a nearby fountain halts the age-regression process.

Watching on his timescope, the Time Trapper leaves to take matters into his own hands, after arranging for Superboy and Brainiac 5 to be stranded in the far future behind his Iron Curtain.

As the baby Legionnaires cavort about him, the Time Trapper decides to use them to his own advantage by having them rob a bank and steal valuable items for him. He then tricks Glorith to removing her protective glove and presses the hourglass into her hand, devolving her into slime as punishment for her failure, and takes back his force-barrier ring.

After taking the Legionnaire children to another world in hopes of completing their regression, the Time Trapper finds his craft changed into candy by Element Lad and devoured by the children. Superboy and Brainiac 5 are freed when the mechanism creating the Iron Curtain of Time is eaten, and they materialize to capture him. A deal is struck, and the Time Trapper restores the Legionnaires to their correct ages in exchange for a spacecraft and freedom. After the Legionnaires leave, they learn that Brainiac 5 had used the Time Trapper's force-barrier ring to surround the ship, thus stranding him.

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