Adventure Comics 247

Adventure Comics #247 Preboot » Pre-Crisis Cover, by Curt Swan, Stan Kaye and Ira Schnapp Story title The Legion of Super-Heroes Previous story Flashback in Adventure Comics 290:The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero Next story Adventure Comics 267:Prisoner of the Super-Heroes Cover date April 1958 Creators Writer(s) Otto Binder and Mort Weisinger Penciller(s) Al Plastino Inker(s) Al Plastino Letterer(s) Unknown Colourist(s) Unknown Editor(s) Mort Weisinger Cover artist(s) Curt Swan, Stan Kaye, Ira Schnapp

The Legion of Super-Heroes

One day in Smallville, Superboy encounters three super-youths from the 30th century, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Boy, who invite him to join their super-hero club. Taking him to their time, each of the three in turn takes him on in a test of super-skill. However, during each test, Superboy is sidetracked by other, more important missions. Consequently, he fails all three tests and is rejected for membership. When he takes his defeat like a good sport, the Legionnaires confess that they had engineered each diversion deliberately and lured the Boy of Steel from victory to see whether or not he could take defeat with a smile. In the end, the heroes from the future cheer him for passing his initiation and admit him into the Legion.

Other stories in this issue

There are two additional stories that do not feature the Legion. The Green Arrow and Speedy must overcome bad luck in "The Thirteen Superstition Arrows." Then "Aquaman's Super Sea-Squad" must race against time to help disable a nuclear projectile.