Salu Digby

Born on the planet Imsk, where all inhabitants possess the hereditary ability to shrink, Salu Digby carried that native power to the 30th century's Legion of Super-Heroes. Known as Shrinking Violet, she can reduce herself to sub-atomic size while retaining most of her physical strength.

Salu Digby made her first splash in the Silver Age pages of Action Comics #276 in 1961, brought to life by Robert Bernstein and Wayne Boring, and she's been a fixture of DC's far-future universe ever since. With 64 years of publication history stretching all the way to 2025, she's one of the most enduring figures in the Legion of Super-Heroes corner of the DC cosmos, a saga that has unfolded across Adventure Comics, Legion of Super-Heroes, and Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Eleven of her appearances carry key-issue status — a testament to how often she's been at the center of genuinely significant moments — and she keeps remarkable company, sharing pages with luminaries like Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Reep Daggle, and Querl Dox. If you love the grand, optimistic sweep of DC's 30th-century storytelling, Salu Digby is absolutely a character whose collected adventures reward the dedicated reader.