Adventure Comics 500 Mid Grade (1983)

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• 1 The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! Script: Jerry Siegel • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese +
  Following the death of Lightning Lad, the LSH recruits new member Legionnaire Lemon, or Marvel Lad, who turns out to be Mon-El, finally cured of his weakness to lead and able to leave the Phantom Zone to join the Legion full-time.
• 2 The Legion of Substitute Heroes! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese +
  A group of rejected applicants band together as the Legion of Substitute Heroes and thwart the Plant Men's scheme to take over the Earth.
• 3 The Secret Power of the Mystery Super-Hero! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese +
  The Legion recruits Element Lad, who is the last survivor of Trom, to fight the space pirate Roxxas, who killed the rest of the Trommians. He wants to keep his super-power to transform elements a secret, so he joins as Mystery Lad.
• 4 The Return of Lightning Lad! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese +
  Lightning Lad's sister impersonates her dead brother and later joins the Legion as Lightning Lass.
• 5 [Part I] The Legion of Super-Monsters! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  Legion of Super-Heroes reject Jungle King tries to get revenge with his super-beasts.
• 6 Part II: The Legion's Super-Showdown! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  Jungle King and his super-beasts are defeated by the Legion.
• 7 [Part I] The Doom of the Super-Heroes! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  The Legion of Super-Heroes fight Mask Man, who begins killing them one by one.
• 8 Part II: Last Stand of the Legion! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  Mask Man continues to kill the Legionnaires, until he is revealed as a 30th Century descendant of Mr. Mxyzptlk. Superboy defeats him, and the dead Legionnaires are restored as all the effects of his magic are undone.
• 9 [Part I] The War Between the Substitute Heroes and the Legionnaires! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese, Milton Snapinn +
  The Legionnaires are angry and rude every time the Substitute Legion tries to help.
• 10 Part II: The Duel of the Legions! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Joe Letterese, Milton Snapinn +
  The Substitute Legion battle alien impostors from the planet Zyzan who have imprisoned the real Legion.
• 11 Part I: The Super-Sacrifice of the Legionnaires! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  The Legionnaires try to find a way to revive Lightning Lad.
• 12 Part II: The Bravest Legionnaire! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: John Forte • Inks: John Forte • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  Proty sacrifices his life to revive Lightning Lad.
• 13 The World of Doomed Olsens! Script: Jerry Siegel • Pencils: Curt Swan • Inks: George Klein +
  Jimmy is taken by The Collector to the world Gion-El, which is seemingly inhabited by duplicates of him in the forms into which he has been transformed in the past. But when Jimmy realizes he is being hoaxed, the Legionnaires reveal that he has passed his initiation test and they bring him to the 30th century to officially be made an honorary member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
• 14 Part I: The Condemned Legionnaires! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: Curt Swan • Inks: George Klein • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  The girl Legionnaires are struck by a mysterious Crimson Virus. Satan Girl tries to take their place, but attacks the girls when rejected. Supergirl follows.
• 15 Part II: The Secret of Satan Girl! Script: Edmond Hamilton • Pencils: Curt Swan • Inks: Sheldon Moldoff • Letters: Milton Snapinn +
  Satan Girl is defeated by the Super-Pets and revealed to be an evil Red Kryptonite duplicate of Supergirl.
• 16 The First Five Hundred Issues Script: E. Nelson Bridwell • Pencils: Bob Oksner (Adventure #428 cover), Curt Swan (Adventure #300 and #403 covers), Jim Aparo (Adventure #446 cover), Kurt Schaffenberger (Adventure #453 cover), Mike Sekowsky (Adventure #400 cover) • Inks: Bob Oksner (Adventure #428 cover), Dick Giordano (Adventure #400 cover), George Klein (Adventure #300 cover), Jim Aparo (Adventure #446 cover), Kurt Schaffenberger (Adventure #453 cover), Murphy Anderson (Adventure #403 cover) +

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