Comic Title: Legion of Super-Heroes:The Life and Death of Ferro Lad HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: March 4, 2009 Direct Market Date March 4, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Direct Market Date February 18, 2009
Source: Previews, #241

Cover Price: $39.99
Page Count: 168

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Fatal Five"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: James Shooter
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

Reprinted From:
Adventure Comics #352 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Adventure Comics #351; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Cosmic Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #351; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #135; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Sun Boy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #350; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Ferro Lad (last appearance in Adventure Comics #351; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Princess Projectra (last appearance in Adventure Comics #351; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)

Villain(s)

• Fatal Five (next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Tharok (origin; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Validus (first appearance; last appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #3; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Emerald Empress (origin; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Mano (origin; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Persuader (next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• Sun-Eater (a galactic creature; first appearance; last appearance in Adventure Comics #357; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)
• A renegade Controller (behind-the-scenes; next appearance in Adventure Comics #353)

Other Character(s)

• Science Police officers, United Planets Emergency Force agents, astronomers, and the inhabitants of various planets (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 1: "To Save a Galaxy"
Part 2: "An S.O.S. to Evil"

The behind-the-scenes presence of the renegade Controller is revealed in Adventure Comics #357.

This story continues in Adventure Comics #353.

This issue includes a text feature: "Meet Your Legionnaires: Cosmic Boy".

Synopsis:
At the Legion Clubhouse, Superboy, Cosmic Boy, Sun Boy, Princess Projectra, and Ferro Lad, the Legionnaires on duty, study a film of the Fatal Five, a collection of the galaxy's deadliest villains. These include the Persuader, and extortionist who wields an atomic axe that can slice through anything, including energy; Tharok, a criminal whose half-human, half-robot body gives him immeasurable intelligence; the Emerald Empress, whose Emerald Eye of Ekron does whatever she wills it to do; Validus, a gargantuan being with super-strength and the ability to project lighting from his head; and Mano, a mutant with a glowing disc on his right hand which enables him to destroy anything he touches.

Word reaches the heroes that the dreaded Sun-Eater is approaching Earth. The Sun-Eater is a huge, cloud-like being that wanders through the universe and devours suns by wrapping itself around them, leaving them cold, dark husks, incapable of supporting life. Because their teammates are on a mission in Dimension QK-51, the five Legionnaires try to summon other heroes in the galaxy to help in the emergency, but to no avail.

In desperation, they decide to ask the Fatal Five for assistance against the Sun-Eater, since they too are menaced. Cosmic Boy recruits Tharok, Superboy persuades the Emerald Empress to come, Sun Boy is dispatched to bring back Validus, Princess Projectra contacts the Persuader, and Ferro Lad returns with Mano.