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The
Adult Legion - Former Members |
The following bios tell what
happened to the former teen heroes of the Legion in later
life. It also lists members who had been members of the
Adult Legion at one time. Related to that, there are
three silhoutted and unknown former members, now
deceased, that appear on page 3, panel 1 of Adventure
Comics No. 354. It is possible, though not
certain, that they - as well as Power Boy - may have been
members of the team's teen auxiliary.
DUO
DAMSEL | PHANTOM WOMAN | COLOSSAL MAN | INVISIBLE KID | STAR BOY | SUPERGIRL* | SHRINKING VIOLET | BOUNCING BOY | MON-EL | MATTER-EATER LAD | LIGHT LADY | DREAM GIRL | PRINCESS PROJECTRA | FERRO LAD | KARATE KID | SHADOW WOMAN | CHEMICAL KING | NIGHT WOMAN | QUANTUM QUEEN | REFLECTO | POWER BOY*
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Current Status: Resigned After Bouncing
Boy lost his super-power and
was discharged from the Legion, Luornu agreed to
marry him, forever setting aside her teenaged
crush on Kal-El. She quit the team to raise a
family on her home world of Cargg (misspelled
"Carrg" in the caption of the panel
seen at right). Their son, born under the triple
suns of the planet, gained the power to
triplicate.
Appeared
In:
Action Comics
No. 289/2, Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Duo Damsel's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Resigned Tinya quit the
Legion to marry Ultra Man. They live
off-world, most likely on Rimbor, and have two
children - a boy, Ronn, and a girl, Arna. Each of
the siblings have inherited their parents'
super-powers.
Appeared
In:
Action Comics
No. 289/2, Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Phantom Woman's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Honorably discharged Gim was forced to
quit the Legion because an injury robbed him of
his size-increasing power. Fortunately, his
experience as a Legionnaire allowed him to
acquire the position of the Director of the
Intergalactic Guard.
He is
currently based in the Cosmic Directorate, a huge metal
sphere located at the center of the known
universe. It is the Headquarters of the
Intergalactic High Council, which preserves the
peace between worlds.
Gim
currently sports a moustache and beard.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Colossal Boy's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Unknown. However,
according to "The Legion Outpost"
letter column of Adventure
Comics No. 358, the heroes
seen in Adventure Comics No.
354 and 355 "were not
the only members of the Adult Legion. Chameleon
Man, Sun Man and Color King were among those who
were absent on mission[s]." Although
Invisible Kid (or whatever name he may go by now)
is not mentioned by name, we know that he was not
visited by Superman or shown as deceased and so,
like Sun Man and the others, he could very well
have been "among those" who were away
on missions. NOTE: It is entirely
possible that Lyle was not shown as an adult
member because DC Comics didn't know what to call
him; "Invisible Man" would have
harkened to the villainous character from H. G.
Wells's novel by the same name.
Appeared
In:
Not applicable
For
information concerning Invisible Kid's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Resigned When Dream
Girl married Star Boy, the two
quit the Legion and settled on his home world of Xanthu (misprinted as
"Xantho" in the caption of the panel
seen at right) where Thom currently is an
astronomer like his parents were.
Of all
male Legionnaires, Thom has lost the most hair on
his head. The hair he does have he wears slightly
longer than the brushcut he sported through his
teenaged years.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Star Boy's super-hero
career, click here.
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Supergirl
(possibly an honorary member) |
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Current Status: Unknown. There is
no indication that Supergirl remained a member of
the Legion or that she ever continued a career as
Superwoman. Outside of imaginary tales or dream
sequences, the Silver Age lore has never shown
the actual future of Supergirl. Based on Linda's
constant desires to lead a normal life, however,
the events shown in the imaginary tale of
"The Amazing Story of Superman-Red and
Superman-Blue" (Superman
No. 162) could shed some
light on her future whereabouts. In that tale,
the two Superman recreated the planet Krypton,
calling it New Krypton, and enlarged the city of
Kandor on it. Supergirl expressed her long-held
desire to live on a Krypton-like world and went
to live there, thus giving up her career as
Earth's super-heroine. Though she had lost her
powers, Supergirl remained an honorary
Legionnaire. In real continuity, we know from an
editor's note in Adventure
Comics No. 356 that the
planet Rokyn was "settled
in the 20th century by survivors of Krypton, when
the bottle-city of Kandor was enlarged" and
so it is possible Supergirl joined them there as
she did in the imaginary story.
Appeared
In:
Not applicable
For
information concerning Supergirl's Legion career,
click here.
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Current Status: Resigned Salu quit the
Legion when she married Duplicate Boy. The live on the
planet Lallor where they have
raised a boy and a girl, both of whom have
inherited their father's ability to duplicate any
super-power, including her own power of
super-shrinking.
Vi calls
her husband "Ord Qelu" (see panel at
right) when his name was revealed as "Qued
Orlu" in Action Comics No.
381/2. According to the "Metropolis
Mailbag" of Action
Comics No. 385 Duplicate
Boy's name is Qued Orlu and that "in the
[adult Legion] story, Vi got her tongue
twisted."
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Shrinking Violet's
super-hero career, click here.
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Current Status: Honorably
discharged After Chuck lost his
super-power (again) and was discharged from the
Legion, he figured he had nothing to lose by
proposing to Duo
Damsel. She agreed to marry him,
and they settled on her home world of Cargg (misspelled
"Carrg" in the caption of the panel
seen at right) to raise a family under its triple
suns. The couple have one son, who can triplicate
into three bodies like his mother used to be able
to do as Triplicate Girl.
Chuck has
a police job on Cargg.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Bouncing Boy's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Resigned After Shadow
Woman sacrificed her life to save
the Science Asteroid, Mon-El decided to quit the
Legion and become a space explorer, clearing the
way for the colonization of many new worlds by
saving the lives of hundreds of colonists and
ridding planets of all sorts of dangers.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Mon-El's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Resigned Matter-Eater Lad
left the Legion of enter politics and eventually
rose to become the President of Bismoll. He resides in the
capital city, though as a teen he never lived
there. As responsible as his position is, Tenzil
is never too busy to welcome his Legion buddies
when they come visiting.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Matter-Eater Lad's
super-hero career, click here.
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Current Status: Resigned Ayla married Timber Wolf and has three
children - a girl, Loni, and twin boys, Brin and
Bran. They live off-world of Earth, presumably on
her home world of Winath.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Light Lass's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Resigned When Nura said
"I do" to Star
Boy they both quit the Legion.
Currently, they live on the planet Xanthu (misprinted as
"Xantho" in the caption of the panel
seen at right).
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Dream Girl's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Resigned According to
"The Legion Outpost" letter column of Adventure
Comics No. 372, Projectra
had to quit the Legion to take over her royal
duties as Queen Projectra, ruler of Orando, and one of the
"missing" members in Adventure
Comics No. 354/355 married
her. As Karate Kid once professed his
love for her, and she told him that there wasn't
anyone in the entire universe she'd rather be
with (Action Comics No.
392/2), all signs point to Val Armorr as the
Legionnaire who married her and is her royal
consort.
Appeared
In:
Not applicable
For
information concerning Princess Projectra's
super-hero career, click here.
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Current
Status: Deceased (as of 2966) Appeared
In:
The first Legionnaire to die (permanently), Ferro
Lad's statue is still honored, now among those
heroes who fell after him. His statue can be seen
on Adult Legion grounds in Adventure
Comics No. 354.
For
information concerning Ferro Lad's Legion career,
click here.
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Current Status: Resigned According to
"The Legion Outpost" letter column of Adventure
Comics No. 372, Princess Projectra had to quit the
Legion to take over her royal duties as Queen
Projectra, ruler of Orando, and one of the
"missing" members in Adventure
Comics No. 354/355 married
her. As Karate Kid once professed his love for
her, and she told him that there wasn't anyone in
the entire universe she'd rather be with (Action
Comics No. 392/2), all
signs point to Val Armorr as the Legionnaire who
married her and is her royal consort.
Appeared
In:
Not applicable
For
information concerning Karate Kid's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current Status: Deceased In Adventure
Comics No. 354, the cover
and interior story, we see that Shadow Woman
"died saving the Science Asteroid."
According to "The Legion Outpost"
letter column of Adventure
Comics No. 368 "Shadow
Lass will grow up to be Shadow Woman. The statue
we showed in No. 354 [bottom left picture] should
have had blue skin, not white [see color
corrected picture on bottom right]." Her
death prompted her lover, Mon-El, to quit the
Legion in order to prevent deaths on all colony
worlds as a space explorer.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354 (as a statue
indicating her future fate, which is also her
first published appearance in the lore). Shadow
Lass joined the Legion in Adventure
Comics No. 366.
For
information concerning Shadow Lass's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Deceased According to Adventure
Comics No. 354, the cover
and interior story, we learn that Chemical King
"sacrificed his life to prevent World War
VII."
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354 (as a statue
indicating his future fate, which is also his
first published appearance in the lore). Chemical
King joined the Legion in Adventure
Comics No. 372.
For
information concerning Chemical King's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Resigned Night Woman left
the Substitute Legion years ago to marry Cosmic Man. Since then, the
group's numbers dwindled so much that it merged
with the main Legion team. The Krinns lives off
world, most likely on Braal.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354
For
information concerning Night Girl's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Deceased According to the
cover of Adventure Comics No.
354, "Quantum Queen perished preventing an
escape from the Cosmos Prison."
Known
Relatives: In "The Legion
Outpost" letter column of Adventure
Comics No. 371, the
possibility was raised that Quantum Lad, who was suggested
by reader David Broomhead, may be her twin
brother.
Home
Planet: If the above is taken to be
fact, then Quantum Queen also hails from his
suggested planet Lucis, a world of
concentrated light.
Super-Power:
She
can convert her body into any type of quantum
radiation, such as a laser beam or a beam of
light that can pass through transparent objects
or dazzle her foes.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354 (as a statue
indicating her future fate, which is also her
first published appearance in the lore).
Chronologically, Quantum Queen first appeared as
a member of the Wanderers in Adventure
Comics No. 375, a
law-keeping group that has sworn eternal
friendship to the Legion.
For
information concerning Quantum Queen's super-hero
career, click here.
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Current
Status: Deceased According to Adventure
Comics No. 354, the cover
and interior story, we learn that Reflecto was
"killed in a duel with the Molecule
Master."
Super-Power:
Unknown.
It is possible he can reflect super-powers that
are directed at him and that the Molecule Master
killed him by some indirect use of his control
over molecules.
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354 (as a statue
indicating his future fate. He did not make an
earlier chronological appearance in Silver Age
lore).
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Power
Boy (possibly a former Teen Auxiliary
member) |
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Current
Status: Deceased Judging by his
youthful name, Power Boy may have been a member
of the Adult Legion's Teen Auxiliary.
Super-Power:
Unknown,
although reader Steven Petryszyn once suggested a
Power Boy who could
"drain the power - even a super-power - from
any object or person and restore it or place it
in another person"
(Adventure Comics No. 340
"Bits of Legionnaire Business").
Appeared
In:
Adventure
Comics No. 354 (as a statue
indicating his future fate. He did not make an
earlier chronological appearance in Silver Age
lore).
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