Action #384

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Action #384 1970/Jan
Mainstream
1969-1970: The Legion in ACTION

"Lament for a Legionnaire"

Story
Continuity(ies): 
Classic
Variant(s): 
default
Group(s): 
LSH (or analog)
Time Period(s): 
30th century
Reprinted in: 
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives 09 (1999)

Mission Monitor Board

Dream Girl (classic)
Element Lad (classic)
Karate Kid (Val) (classic)
Mon-El (classic)
Princess/Queen Projectra (classic)
Shadow Lass (classic)
Superboy (classic)
Ultra Boy (classic)
Dream Girl (classic)
DC Multiverse: 
Earth-One (pre-crisis)

Worlds

Places

• Metropolis
• Posvar Belt

Bits of Future Business

Roll Call

LSH (or analog)

Legion of Substitute Heroes

Family of Legionnaires

Politicians

Smallvillians

Superman mythos

Cute boys

Bits of Legionnaire Business

  • First appearance and death of Eltro Gand.
  • Mon-El dies, is revived.

Equipment

Get-a-Life Boy says

Some later Legion fans developed a theory that Eltro Gand's personality overwrote Mon-El's, and that from this issue forward, Mon-El was actually Eltro. If so, it's odd that Eltro—grief-stricken by Mon-El's death—wouldn't have said something.

Chronicler's Error?

  • Dream Girl's vision depicts Superboy carrying Mon-El's body while Karate Kid, DreamGirl, and Princess Projectra look on. That didn't happen.

Queering the LSH

Superboy sneaks into Mon-El's bedroom at night, thinking "Can't blow this one." (And why not?)

Eltro Gand, masquerading as Mon-El, catches him and explains to the others, "Superboy planned to kidnap me, and, in disguise, face my death. Right, hero?"

And Superboy's all, "Uh...yeah...sure. That's why I was sneaking into your bedroom. That's why I always sneak into your bedroom on Thursday nights. Definitely not for torrid Kryptonian-on-Daxamite mansex."

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