Lightning Lad/Preboot

Lightning Lad Legion of Super-Heroes member Preboot » Pre-Crisis Real name Garth Ranzz First appearance Adventure Comics #247 Stats Home planet / Species Winath Relatives Mekt Ranzz (Lightning Lord, older brother), Ayla Ranzz (Lightning Lass/Light Lass, twin sister) Powers Electrical generation and control Other versions

All appearances

Includes Elseworlds and AR appearances from Pre-Crisis era: 1958-1985.

1958

• April - Adventure Comics #247 (cover, 17 panels - As Lightning Boy, 1st appearance)

1959

• December - Adventure Comics #267 (cover, 20 panels)

1960

• August - Action Comics #267 (19 panels)

1961

• January - Superboy v1 #86 (8 panels)
• March - Adventure Comics #282 (1 panel - As Lightning Boy)
• May - Action Comics #276 (5 panels)
• September - Superman v1 #147 (10 panels - As Lightning Man, 3 in flashback, origin)
• November - Adventure Comics #290 (cover, 8 panels - 2 as picture, 7 in flashback)
• November - Superman v1 #149 (? panels)
• December - Superboy v1 #93 (? panels)
• ? month - Superman Annual v1 #4 (1 panel, real name given)

1962

• February - Action Comics #285 (? panels)
• February - Adventure Comics #293 (cover, 25 panels)
• April - Superman v1 #152 (6 panels - 1 in flashback, 1 as statuette)
• April - Action Comics #287 (10 panels - 4 as disguised chameleon man)
• June - Action Comics #289 (4 panels - 1 as statuette, 3 as Lightning Man)
• July - Action Comics #290 (? panels - as statuette)
• August - Superman v1 #155 (4 panels - as Lightning Man, plus 8 panels disguised as Samsom)
• September - Adventure Comics #300 (cover, 22 panels - 1 as statue, origin)