Adventure Comics #516 [Direct Sales]

(September 2010)

Brande Speaks (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Paul Levitz

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe

Inks

Marlo Alquiza

Colors

Blond

Letters

Travis Lanham

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy]; R. J. Brande; Pheebes; Marla Latham (unindentified); Circadia Senius

Synopsis

The adult Legion brings Superboy to the future to watch a holo left behind by R. J. Brande in which he details how he came to create the Legion as a vehicle for inter-planetary unity.

Reprints

• in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years (DC, 2011 series) ([July] 2011)

Indexer Notes

Though the cover reflects the Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes feature, this story is actually a Legion of Super-Heroes story, as in the contemporary Legion title, as indicated by the logo on the first page.

Nucleus, Part 1: Splitting the Atom (Table of Contents: 2)

The Atom / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Jeff Lemire

Pencils

Mahmud Asrar

Inks

John Dell

Colors

Pete Pantazis

Letters

Sal Cipriano

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Oracle; Jack Palmer; The Calculator; Aquaman [Arthur Curry] (image); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (image); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (image); Martian Manhunter (image); Batgirl [Stephanie Brown] (image)

Synopsis

Knowing that the Calculator hired the thugs who took hostages at the Ivy Town Public Library to get him away from his lab, Ray seeks out Oracle's help in getting him into the Calculator's lair. But the Calculator is prepared for an intruder and quickly has the Atom seemingly helpless.