Adventure Comics #304
Adventure Comics #304
Cover Credits
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

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Title: "The Stolen Super-Powers"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #403 (1971)
Adventure Comics #499 (1983)
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 1 HC (1991)
Showcase Presents:Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Legion of Super-Heroes:1,050 Years of the Future TPB (2008)
Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2017)
Legion of Super-Heroes:The Silver Age Vol. 1 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Zaryan the Conqueror and his robot henchmen (invaders from planet Brokk; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

Other Character(s)

  • Commander Loring of the World-Wide Police (no further appearances)
  • Various citizens of 30th century Metropolis (no further appearances)
  • The Trylop Council of Mernl (no appearance)

Comments:
Saturn Girl is elected leader in this story.

The Science Police are referred to as the World-Wide Police in this story.

Following this story, Chameleon Boy helps Superboy protect his secret identity in the first story of Adventure Comics #305.

Synopsis:
The first to arrive at the clubhouse for the election meeting, Saturn Girl sees the arrival of a crystal containing a mysterious message, which she reads and destroys. Later, she uses her mental powers to force each and every Legionnaire to vote for her, and then orders them to wear special medallions.

Saturn Girl then "tests" each Legionnaire, and suspends those who fail, which they all do in the face of their new leader’s ridiculously harsh standards. Unknown to them, the special medallions enable her to duplicate their powers, and when the evil Zaryan the Conqueror attempts to attack Earth, she is the only one left to stop him. However, Lightning Lad ignores his suspension and follows her. He destroys Zaryan’s ship, but is struck by the villain’s freeze-ray at the same instant.

Saturn Girl brings the dying hero back to Earth, where he explains that Mon-El, watching from the Phantom Zone, had read the note she had received – one sent by aliens, whose computers had predicted that a Legionnaire would die in combat with Zaryan. She had then schemed to become the only one to face him, and thus sacrifice her life for her teammates. She would have succeeded, had not Mon-El telepathically revealed her plan to Lightning Lad.

Unable to join Mon-El in the Zone because of sunspot activity, Lightning Lad dies.

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