Comic Title: Adventure Comics #312
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1963
On Sale Date: July 25, 1963 Copyright Date July 25, 1963
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1963

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

Title: "The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: John Forte

Reprinted In:
Adventure Comics #403 (1971)
Adventure Comics #500 (1983)
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 2 HC (1992)
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)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #311; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Saturn Girl (last appearance in Adventure Comics #311; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #107; next appearance in Adventure Comics #312)
• Chameleon Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #311; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #311; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Mon-El (last appearance in Adventure Comics #310; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Lightning Lass (last appearance in Adventure Comics #310; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)
• Lightning Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #304; next appearance in Adventure Comics #313)

Supporting Character(s)

• Proty (dies in this story; last appearance in Adventure Comics #308; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Employees of the Interplanetary Post Office (no further appearances)
• The inhabitants of the planet Skor and the inhabitants of a planet of a blue sun in Galaxy AB-213 (no further appearances)
• Tarocs (alien creatures; no further appearances)
• Space serpents (no further appearances)
• An unnamed doctor of planet Daxam (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Bravest Legionnaire"

Synopsis:
The Legionnaires anxiously await the arrival of Mon-El, who has travelled to his home planet to find some way to revive their fallen comrade, Lightning Lad. When he returns, he claims to have failed, but Saturn Girl reads his mind and discovers that he is lying, although she cannot think why.

Refusing to accept defeat, the heroes dedicate themselves to finding a way to return Lightning Lad to life. Unfortunately, although they comb the galaxy for leads, they can unearth no working method. Finally, Saturn Girl confronts Mon-El with her knowledge that he does know a way to bring back their friend. He explains that a device can be built that will channel a lightning bolt through a special steel rod into Lightning Lad’s body and resurrect him, but not without killing whoever holds the rod.

The heroes decide to let fate choose which of them will sacrifice his life. Six Legionnaires bring their comrade’s coffin to Lightning World, and, holding identical rods, wait pateintly to see who will be struck. However, Saturn Girl has secretly constructed her rod of duralim, a highly conductive metal. Finally, a bolt strikes her rod, and revives Lightning Lad, just as another Saturn Girl emerges from a nearby cave.

She explains that it wasn’t she who died, but Proty, Chameleon Boy’s pet, who had discovered her plan of sacrifice, lured her into a nearby cavern, and then taken her place.