Comic Title: Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1994
On Sale Date: September 27, 1994 Shipping Date September 27, 1994
Source: Previews, Vol. 4 #7 (#67)

Direct Market Date September 26, 1994
Source: Usenet, Capital City : The List of New Releases for the Week of September 26th

Shipping Date September 27, 1994
Source: Direct Currents, #80

Shipping Date September 27, 1994
Source: Advance Comics, #69

Copyright Date October 4, 1994
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1994

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Super-Stalag of Space"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #344 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Cosmic Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Chameleon Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Invisible Kid (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Matter-Eater Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Element Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Lightning Lass (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Duo Damsel (last appearance in Adventure Comics #343; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)

Villain(s)

• Nardo and his android guards (next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Weight Wizard (next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)

Other Character(s)

• Shadow Kid (Grev Malor; next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Plant Lad (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• An unnamed hero of planet Durla (disguised as Superboy; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• An unnamed space captain and his crew (no further appearances)
• Blockade Boy (next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)
• Unnamed prisoners of the Super-Stalag of Space (next appearance in Adventure Comics #345)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Lightning Lad (pictured on the Legion Alarm Board)
• Mon-El (pictured on the Legion Alarm Board)
• Sun Boy (pictured on the Legion Alarm Board)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Testing of Brainiac 5"

This story continues in Adventure Comics #345.

Synopsis:
When the Legionnaires learn that Brainiac 5 is being held as a prisoner of war on a wild asteroid, they fly there to free him. As they arrive, their ship is blasted by bolts of force and crashes. The Legionnaires survive, but are overpowered by android guards and taken captive.

In the prison camp, the male Legionnaires are reunited with Brainiac 5, and meet other captive heroes including Plant Lad, Shadow Kid, Blockade Boy, and Weight Wizard. Their jailer is Nardo, a three-eyed alien with the power to project force rays, who has sworn eternal warfare on lawmen everywhere. His android assistants keep the captives in line, as they are forced to break rocks in the yard outside. One hero, a Durlan who was frozen into Superboy's shape by Nardo, attempts to flee and is killed.

Later, Brainiac 5 is taken before Nardo and informed that the alien knows of the escape plans the heroes are forming. Brainiac 5 survives the brainwashing Nardo puts him through, and returns to the barracks to announce that one of the prisoners is cooperating with Nardo as an informer. Plant Lad soon cracks under the strain, and is killed after rebelling, and Chameleon Boy, who tries to learn the fate of the girl Legionnaires, is severly punished.

Finally, Matter-Eater Lad and Blockade Boy break camp and run for their lives, and find Nardo's second prison camp, populated by female inmates including the girl Legionnaires. Nardo and his androids suddenly arrive, however, and the villain fires his force ray at the escapees.