Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: April 4, 2007 Direct Market Date April 4, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #1 (#217)

Direct Market Date April 4, 2007
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Direct Market Date April 4, 2007
Source: Comic Shop News, #1031

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 552
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #305 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Cosmic Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Colossal Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Brainiac 5 (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Shrinking Violet (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Bouncing Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #306)
• Invisible Kid (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #307)
• Mon-El (temporarily uses the aliases "Marvel Lad" and "Legionnaire Lemon" (Lemon is an anagram of Mon-El) in this story; last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #308)

Villain(s)

• Jax-Ur (last appearance in DC Comics Presents #97; no further appearances)
• Unnamed Phantom Zone criminals (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A Sun-Eater (not to be confused with the Sun-Eater in Adventure Comics #352; no further appearances)
• Antennae Boy (a rejected Legion applicant; next appearance in DC Comics Presents #59)
• Dynamo Boy (a rejected Legion applicant; no further appearances)
• Monsters of the planet Brogg (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Superboy (in flashback)
• Lightning Lad (as a corpse and as a statue)

Synopsis:
After rejecting two candidates for membership, the Legionnaires meet a worthwhile hero, Marvel Lad, or "Legionnaire Lemon," who demonstrates all the powers of Superboy and Mon-El, but not their weaknesses to Kryptonite and lead. By the end of the day, he passes their initiation by retrieving the rare mineral fluvium, defeating a Sun-Eater, vaniquishing the monsters of the planet Brogg, and creating an anti-gravity metal. After being told that they will induct him the next day, he vanishes.

The following day, he appears – and reveals himself as Mon-El. He explains that Brainiac 5 had secretly developed an antidote to his fatal lead poisoning, but thought it best to keep it a secret in case it failed. Unable to resist the joke, though, the two of them concocted a fictitious identity for him to see whether or not he could join incognito.

After a final trip to the Phantom Zone to bid farewell to its criminal inhabitants, Mon-El joins the Legion permanently.