Superboy # 215 Starring the Legion of Super-heroes

"The Hero who wouldn't Fight" Story By: Jim Shooter, Art by Mike Grell & Bill Draut

Planet Kar Zagas and out of the way Planetoid, Current population 227 cutthroats, thieves and Villains and one Legionnaire. Disguised as Radako, expert marksman, assassin for hire, Chameleon Boy infiltrates the Citadel only to find out he is expected and zapped by the Emerald Empress's Emerald Eye. The Emerald Empress acting without the Fatal five has taken over the citadel and is forming a criminal army to take back her home world of Vengar. She blasts Chameleon boy and has her men lock him up in a special cell and take his flight ring. A short while later the in a Legion Cruiser gets the signal it has been waiting for and Ultra boy acting as the leader transport a group of Legionnaires all except Cosmic boy to the planet's surface. Cosmic Boy is left behind because this is the one day of the year that people of his planet Braal are forbidden to use their magnetic powers.
Seconds after they beam down Light Lass beams back  and tells him it was a trap the others were captured and she barley escaped. She pleads with Cosmic boy to take them by surprise with his Super Magnetism. Cosmic Boy refuses due to his people's beliefs. If he used his power he would dishonor his whole family for generations and lose his own self respect. Light Lass continue to plead asking him to save her brother's Lightning Lad's life. She badgers him for a little bit until he tells her to shut up and slaps her.

 Cosmic Boy says he can not use his powers but he will fight and die like a Legionnaire. He beams down leaving Light Lass to think she goaded him into suicide. Cosmic Boy sneaks into to the citadel thanks to his Legion Flight ring and finds the Legionnaires locked up in glass like cubes. Ultra Boy says that the cells drain their powers but that Cosmic boy can blast them from out outside. Cosmic Boy tries to lift the quadrostat but he can not, just as the guards come in the quadrostat flies into Ultra Boy's cell and frees him. A missile is fired and cosmic boy leaps in front of it to buy time so that Ultra Boy and free, Sun Boy, Shadow Lass, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy and Colossal Boy. The villains flee knocking down the Emerald Empress allowing the team to capture her. Cosmic Boy lies dying on the floor and the others wonder why he did not use his powers to save his life since he used them to free Ultra boy. Sun Boy tells them that he did not use his powers, he found Cosmic Boy's flight ring in the wreckage of the Quadrostat he must of put in inside of it and used it to fly into the wall. He kept his honor till the end. Ultra Boy talks to the Empress and asks her to use her Eye to save Cosmic Boy's life. She says she will compile as ling as they let her go. The team tell him not to trust her, but Ultra Boy tells the others to let her go and she vanishes. But shortly after Cosmic boy comes around.
Roll Call:

• Chameleon Boy
• Cosmic Boy
• Colossal Boy
• Sun Boy
• Ultra Boy
• Lightning Lad
• Light Lass
• Shadow Lass

Villain

• The Emerald Empress

Planets Visited:

• Kar Zargas

Legion Equipment:

• Cruiser
• Flight Ring
• Transporter

Notes
Page 1:

• We get a good look at the worst costume in Legion history, Cosmic Boy's Black bare chested suit.
• Chameleon tries to sneak in but gets caught.

Page 2:

• The Emerald Empress and her Emerald Eye.

Page 3:

• The Legion stole one of Star trek transporters
• Cosmic Boy cannot use his powers because of cultural beliefs,

Page 4:

• Light Lass tries to guilt Cosmic Boy into helping.
• Cosmic Boy smacks a Bitch.

Page 6:

• Cosmic Boy frees Ultra Boy with out using his powers and then gets blasted.

Page 8:

• The Empress revives Cosmic boy for her own freedom.

Excellent story, we get a first rate villain and two new costumes, Cosmic Boy's and Colossal Boy's. Cosmic Boy stays around for a while but Colossal boy reverts back to his old uniform in a year or two.

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