Adventure Comics #350
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAdventure Comics #350 is a pivotal Silver Age Legion of Super-Heroes issue because it delivers two debut appearances that would resonate across decades of DC continuity: R.J. Brande, the wealthy industrialist whose financial backing underpins the Legion's very existence, and the Hag — a disguised sorceress revealed in the following issue to be Mysa Nal, the future White Witch. The story also marks the deliberately engineered exit of Superboy and Supergirl from the Legion's active roster, a bold editorial experiment designed to shift storytelling focus toward the team's wider membership. Though the two Kryptonian cousins were ultimately brought back, the attempt itself signals a maturing ambition in how writers and editors were thinking about ensemble-cast superhero narratives. The issue is also a notably early instance of full writer-and-artist credits appearing on a DC story, a small but meaningful step toward creator visibility in mainstream comics.
In "The Outcast Super-Heroes!", Superboy and Supergirl face their toughest challenge yet when a kryptonite cloud threatens Earth, forcing them to leave the Legion of Super-Heroes. Before their memories are erased and they return to their own times, they make a bold request: that the Legion welcome two new recruits, Sir Prize and Miss Terius. Written by E. Nelson Bridwell and brought to life by Curt Swan’s art with George Klein’s inks, this 1966 classic features a poignant moment of legacy and inclusion, all on a cover by Swan and Klein.
When a kryptonite cloud threatens Earth, Superboy and Supergirl are forced to leave the Legion of Super-Heroes after the team can’t remove it. Before their memories are erased and they return to their own times, they ask the Legion to welcome Sir Prize and Miss Terius as new members.
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The issue was written by E. Nelson Bridwell — at the time Mort Weisinger's uncredited assistant editor — and drawn by the long-running Legion art team of Curt Swan (pencils) and George Klein (inks), with Weisinger receiving the formal editorial credit. According to later accounts, Bridwell and Weisinger deliberately orchestrated the removal of Superboy and Supergirl so the ensemble cast could carry stories without reflexively relying on Kryptonian power; someone in DC's upper management, reportedly Jack Liebowitz, disagreed and ordered the cousins reinstated, leading to a hasty reversal at the end of the two-part story's conclusion in issue #351. The story hit newsstands on September 29, 1966 — just weeks after the release of the film Fantastic Voyage, a timing that several commentators have noted given the issue's memorable sequence in which a shrunken Shrinking Violet travels inside Superboy's brain to implant a Kryptonite memory-suppressing capsule.
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- First appearance of R.J. Brande — the Legion's enigmatic financial backer, later revealed to be a Durlan shapeshifter and the biological father of Chameleon Boy — who appears here only as an unnamed 'richest man in the universe' calling for help.
- First appearance of the Hag, an aged sorceress in the service of villain Prince Evillo; she is revealed in the following issue, Adventure Comics #351, to be Mysa Nal — the White Witch — who would become a full Legion member during the 1982 'Great Darkness Saga.'
- Written by E. Nelson Bridwell (his first Legion story) with art by Curt Swan (pencils) and George Klein (inks); edited by Mort Weisinger, with Bridwell serving as uncredited assistant editor.
- The story introduces Prince Evillo and his villainous 'Devil's Dozen,' as well as the mysterious armored new Legionnaires 'Sir Prize' and 'Miss Terious' (revealed next issue to be Star Boy and Dream Girl in disguise).
- Superboy and Supergirl are honorably discharged from the Legion after a Kryptonite cloud envelops Earth, and their memories of the Legion are surgically suppressed — a plot device conceived by Bridwell and Weisinger to spotlight the non-Kryptonian cast.
- Chameleon Boy makes a fourth-wall-breaking joke referencing Marvel's Spider-Man on page 20 — a rare cross-publisher acknowledgment in a Silver Age DC comic.
- The main story, 'The Outcast Super-Heroes!', was reprinted in Superboy #205 (November–December 1974), The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 6 (1996), Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 (2009), and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (2018).
- Cover date is November 1966; the issue went on sale September 29, 1966, and runs 36 pages at the then-standard cover price of 12 cents, published under the National Periodical Publications indicia.
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Reprinted in Superboy #8/1967 (1967), Superman Supacomic #102 (1968), Superboy #205 (1974), The Amazing World of DC Comics #9 (1975), Superman Presents Superboy Comic #99 (1976), Superboy #9/1976 (1976), Superboy #10/1976 (1976), The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #6 (1996), Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #3 (2009), Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018)
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