DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #8 [Newsstand]

(April 1981)

Legion of Super-Heroes Contents (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack C. Harris ?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Escape of the Fatal Five (Table of Contents: 2)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Shooter

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

George Klein

Colors

Jerry Serpe

Letters

Milt Snapinn; Morris Waldinger ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Shadow Lass (intro); Brainiac 5; Karate Kid; Superboy; Cosmic Boy]; Fatal Five [Mano; Tharok; Emerald Empress; Persuader; Validus]

Synopsis

The Legion is sent to Talok VIII to investigate its sudden belligerence, with its native heroine Shadow Lass, and fall into separate traps designed for each one of them. The Legionnaires escape their traps, but their energy in doing so powers the Fatal Five's escape from the dimension into which they were flung after their last encounter with the Legion.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #365 (February 1968), #365 (February 1968)

Indexer Notes

Story continues in the following sequence.

The Fight for the Championship of the Universe! (Table of Contents: 3)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Shooter

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

George Klein

Colors

Jerry Serpe

Letters

Morris Waldinger ?; Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Karate Kid; Superboy; Brainiac 5]; Shadow Lass; Fatal Five [Validus; Emerald Empress; Tharok; Persuader; Mano]

Synopsis

The Legion discovers that the Fatal Five were behind the belligerence of Talok VIII, while the Fatal Five head to Earth and its Universal Weapons Control Panel. But the Fatal Five discover they need a third key held at Legion Headquarters to operate the weapon. By the time they get there it is being defended by the returned Legionnaires. The Legionnaires fight the Fatal Five long enough for the U.P. Forces to come to their rescue and force the Five to flee.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #366 (March 1968), #366 (March 1968)

No Escape from the Circle of Death! (Table of Contents: 4)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Jim Shooter

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

George Klein; Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

Bob LeRose

Letters

Ray Holloway ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Duo Damsel; Cosmic Boy; Superboy; Phantom Girl; Invisible Kid; Sun Boy; Karate Kid; Ferro Lad (statue); Star Boy; Brainiac 5]; Fatal Five [Validus; Emerald Empress; Tharok; Persuader; Mano] (all in cameo); The Dark Circle; Sensei

Synopsis

While the new Legion Headquarters is being built, Karate Kid heads to Japan, while The Dark Circle watches from afar. The Dark Circle invades Japan, and everything seems hopeless until Brainiac 5 uses the Miracle Machine, a gift from a Controller, to repel the invasion.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #367 (April 1968), #367 (April 1968)

Lost: A Million Miles from Home! (Table of Contents: 5)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Cary Bates

Pencils

Dave Cockrum

Inks

Mike Grell

Colors

Lynne Gelfer

Letters

Joe Letterese

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Colossal Boy; Shrinking Violet]

Synopsis

Colossal Boy and Shrinking Violet are stuck on a cruiser with no power, except when Colossal Boy isn't on it.

Reprints

• from Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #202 (May-June 1974)

The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time! (Table of Contents: 6)

Legion of Super-Heroes; Superboy / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Cary Bates

Pencils

Dave Cockrum

Inks

Dave Cockrum

Colors

Adrienne Roy

Letters

Ben Oda

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy; Fatal Five [Emerald Empress; Persuader; Tharok; Validus; Mano]; Lana Lang; Legion of Super-Heroes [Brainiac 5; Element Lad; Princess Projectra; Karate Kid; Chameleon Boy [also as Mano]; Mon-El; Colossal Boy]

Synopsis

At a carnival in his own time period, Superboy faces the Fatal Five. A Legion team trails the Fatal Five to Superboy's time, while, due to a time-distortion machine placed in Superboy's time by the Fatal Five, the rest of the Legion and their headquarters fade from existence in the future. The Legion team in Superboy's time disables the time-distorting machine, and so in the future Legion headquarters rematerializes, imprisoning Mano and Tharok.

Reprints

• from Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #198 (October 1973)

Legion Cover Gallery (Table of Contents: 7)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Neal Adams

Inks

Neal Adams

Letters

Ira Schnapp; Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #365 (February 1968), #366 (March 1968), #367 (April 1968)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Small reprints of the covers for the three stories in the issue.

Who are the Legion's Greatest Foes? (Table of Contents: 8)

Legion of Super-Heroes / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack C. Harris ?

Pencils

Dick Giordano

Inks

Dick Giordano

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy; Duo Damsel; Bouncing Boy; Phantom Girl; Karate Kid; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Star Boy; Chameleon Boy; Cosmic Boy; Colossal Boy]

Indexer Notes

Back cover. Previews of the stories in the issue, surrounded by headshots of Legion members.