Making click on the image you'll go to the following pages with the images of the Legionnaires as they appeared in February 1968 on ADVENTURE COMICS NO.365 and here you have the explanations of every Legionnaire:
(13) SUPERBOY (Clark Kent, born Kal-El) came from the giant planet KRYPTON, under a red sun. He derived his powers, such as invulnerability, super-strength, super-speed, flying, and super-senses, from EARTH'S lesser gravity and yellow sun.
(14) LIGHT LASS (Ayla Ranzz) is LIGHTNING LAD'S sister, and got the same power in the same way at the same time. At first she was LIGHTNING LASS, but DREAM GIRL used her scientific knowledge to change Ayla's power. Now she can make objects super-light-weight.
(15) STAR BOY (Thom Kallor) was born in an orbiting observatory in space, where his astronomer-parents from the planet XANTHU, lived, picking up starlight for reseach. This starlight gave Thom the power to draw mass from the stars and induce it into any object, making it super-heavy.
(16) MON-EL (Lar-Gand) comes from DAXAM, a Krypton-like planet, and has the same powers as SUPERBOY, thinking he was from KRYTPON, gave him his own family named, EL, plus MON, because they met on Monday. Later, contact with lead, which is deadly to him, as KRYPTONITE is to SUPERBOY, restored his memory and endangered his life. SUPERBOY could only save him by putting him into the PHANTOM ZONE, where he remained 1,000 years, until BRAINIAC 5 invented a serum which, taken at regular intervals, makes MON immune to lead and gives him powers under a red sun .
(17) ULTRA BOY (Jo Nah), of the planet RIMBOR, was charged with ultra-energy when his space-speedster was swallow by a huge energy-beast. A passing galactic cruiser saved him by slicing the creature open. Jo has ultra-strenght, ultra-speed, invulnerability, and ultra-vision -including penetra vision, which can even see through lead. But he can only use one power at a time.
(18) MATTER-EATER LAD (Tenzil Kem) came from the planet BISMOLL, where, over a period of eones, microbes poisoned all the food. To survive, the people evolved the ability to eat anything -glass, metal, and eve poison- without any ill effects.
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