The Silent Death By Cary Bates and Dave Cockrum.
Two low level thugs tries to mug Karate Kid and Dream girl but the master of 30th century martial arts makes short work of them. Dream Girl praises Karate Kid and puts down her own usefulness, the Kid tries to make her feel better as they enter Legion headquarters at 1 Nolan Plaza. Late that night while most of the team is sound asleep in the complex a troubled Dream Girl wakes up screaming "a legionnaire is dying!"
Using her flight ring Nura Nal the Dream Girl flies to the monitor room, the room her powers told her that someone will die in. Karate Kid is on monitor duty and Dream Girl tells him that she had a vision of death in this room and it must be he that dies. The Kid talks her out of thinking that it is him, and suggest she saw a death on the monitor screen. Checking on teams out on missions he sees Lightning Lad and Phantom girl recovering Vurxa weeds from the Sahara desert. The two fly into a deadly twister, soon Lightning Lad uses his powers to dissipate the storm. The monitor showing only lightning Lad makes Nura believe that Phantom girl is dead until she uses her powers to phase from Lightning Lads body where she road out the storm. Dream Girl then thinks she is the one who is going to die just before Karate Kid collapses on the floor in front of Her. She then figures it out Karate Kid clutched his side, where the mugger came at him with a knife earlier. His discipline was so great he did not feel the wound. Dream Girl gets him to the Medico wing in time for Brainiac-5 to save his life. The Kid then reminds Dream Girl that every Legionnaire is important including her.
Roll Call
- Karate Kid
- Dream Girl
- Phantom Girl
- Lightning Lad
- Brainiac-5
Places in Headquarters
- Dream Girls bedroom
- Monitor room
- Medical Bay
The Cary Bates back up stories from this time are not as good as the main story, not sure why, This issue features one of my favorite Legionnaires, Karate Kid. Val has a good look and cool powers, and Cockrum does a good job showing the Kid beat up the two muggers with very little effort. Dream girl spends most of the issue running around in a little white nightgown, which is not a bad thing. Unfortunately Bates make Dream Girl a whiny little bitch complaining about her powers. Some people would defend him saying that you cannot make her power seem cool, but much later Paul Levitz turns her into one of the better members of the team and give her a strong run as leader. The mystery of who was suppose to die was not much of a mystery, with only two members being features it was not much of a guess. I love the fact that 30th century computers were using the same IBM punch cards that we used back in the 70's. This issue show Bates pairing off Lightning Lad and Phantom girl together, Jim Shooter will do the same in about 9 issues, not sure if they were planning to break up there existing romances and put them together, but it never happened. Great shot of Phantom girl materializing from Lightning Lad's body. The Bed that Brainiac-5 has him in looks like it is doing his hair. In fact Brainy is wearing a white barbers outfit.
Next time Member Profile: Dream Girl
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