Honorary Legion Members

Blockade Boy I + Pland Lad + Weight Wizard

The "Super Stalag" Heroes • Allies

» FIRST APPEARANCE: Adventure Comics #344 (May 1966)

This doomed trio of super-heroes were prisoners of Nardo in the Super-Stalag of Space. They met the Legion when they were also captured. Plant Lad (Noyt Echad of Simballi) could assume the shape of any plant form; he was the first to fall, killed for resisting Nardo's guards. (Adventure #344)

Blockade Boy (Phyl Staad of Amadus) had the power to turn himself into a steel wall. He was also inspired by the Legion's heroics and sacrificed himself to save Matter-Eater Lad. Weight Wizard had the ability to alter his weight anywhere between one ounce to 1,000 tons. He operated as one of Nardo's spies and betrayed the Legion. Afterwards, he felt guilty and reformed, but it didn't save him. He was also succumbed to killer flowers while running from Nardo's men. (Adventure #345)

Also among this group's number was Shadow Kid (Grev Mallor of Talok VIII), who was later revealed to be the cousin of Shadow Lass. He had no speaking parts in this story, but was identified by name.

NOTE: There was a second Blockade Boy, who was actually the Super-Pet, Proty, in disguise. (Adventure #364)

Dev-Em

Ally

» SEE: Standalone Profile of Dev-Em

Elastic Lad

HONORARY MEMBER

Granted honorary Legion membership: Jimmy Olsen #72 (Oct. 1963)

» SEE: Elastic Lad Jimmy Olsen

Insect Queen

HONORARY MEMBER

Name: Lana Lang

» SEE: Lana Lang Profile

Kid Psycho

HONORARY MEMBER

Name: Gnill Opral of Hajor (deceased)

First appearance, becomes reservist: Superboy vol. 1 #125 (Dec. 1965)

Death: Crisis on Infinite Earths #3 (June 1985)

After his astronaut parents were irradiated by a space creature, Gnill Opral of Hajor was born with an oversized brain which had the capacity for psychic powers. As soon as he discovered this, he became the hero of his home planet, but he was off-planet on a goodwill tour when a rogue asteroid wiped out Hajor's entire population. After some time mourning, he went to Earth, where he tried out for the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legionnaires discovered something he didn't know, though: every time he used his powers, he shortened his own life. He was politely rejected, but he couldn't understand why, until he made a personal appeal to Superboy, who found a way to break the news to him. The Legionnaires, to compensate for the bad news, elected to make him an honorary Legionnaire, and promised to call upon his services if they should ever be dire enough to warrant the risk of his life. (Superboy vol. 1 #125) Kid Psycho was satisfied with this, and he remained on friendly terms with the Legionnaires, being invited to such affairs as the wedding of Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel (#200) and the Legion's anniversary celebration. (Legion vol. 2 #300)

His only real call to action, however, would be his last. In the first great "Crisis," Kid Psycho was engulfed by an anti-matter wave while defending London with one of his force-fields. (Crisis #3) He was memorialized with a monument on Shanghalla. (Legion vol. 2 #18)

Glorith Reality (Legion vol. 4)

In Glorith Reality continuity, there was a second Kid Psycho who appeared on New Earth to cause trouble for the SW6 Legionnaires.

Mentalla

Name: Delya Castil of Titan (deceased)

First appearance: Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 3 #14 (Sept. 1985)

After receiving the maximum training available on Titan, young Delya Castil decided to pursue membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes. Her timing was good, as Saturn Girl had resigned, and the Legion was scouting for new members. Her special ability to mentally control or inhibit others' motor systems made her finalist in the selection process. But when she was passed over in favor of Tellus, Delya was dispappointed and a bit angry. (Legion vol. 3 #14)

She half-heartedly joined the Legion Academy but secretly hatched a plan of her own. She was inspired by Bouncing Boy's tale—how he'd gained acceptance into the Legion by sheer determination—and decided to tackle a villain on her own.

Mentalla quickly found herself in over her head after infiltrating the new Fatal Five. She fooled the Emerald Empress long enough, but the Empress killed Mentalla at the first sign of betrayal. Mentalla's last act did allow the Legionnaires to defeat the Fatal Five, however. Her heroism was rewarded with a statue in the Legion's Hall of Heroes. (#24-26)

Pete Ross

HONORARY MEMBER

Name: Peter Ross

First appearance: Superboy vol. 1 #86 (Jan. 1961)

Granted honorary Legion membership: Superboy vol. 1 #98 (July 1962)

Pete Ross was Clark Kent's best friend, in Smallville in the 20th century. (Superboy vol. 1 #86) Pete soon learned that Clark Kent was secretly Superboy, but did not inform his friend of his discovery. (Superboy vol. 1 #90) In fact, Clark would not find out that Pete learned his secret identity until they were adults. (DC Comics Presents #13)

Pete also met the Legion of Super-Heroes. His first encounter was with Ultra Boy, who'd been sent to the 20th century as his test for Legion membership. He and the Legion's mentor, Marla Latham attempted to uncover Superboy's secret identity. Later, Ultra Boy and Marla made Pete an honorary Legionnaire as a reward for being Superboy's loyal friend. (Superboy vol. 1 #100) Pete also visited the Legion in the 30th century and participated in a contest to determine the new Legion leader. (Adventure Comics #323)

He and Lana Lang (who later became a Legion reservist, as Insect Queen), were captured by the evil Mordru, along with a group of Legionnaires who came to the 20th century to escape the magician. Mordru put them on "trial" but they ultimately escaped with the help of Dream Girl and the White Witch. (Adventure #370)

After Clark moved to Metropolis, Pete married and had a son, Jon Ross. (Action Comics #457) Their friendship was tested to the breaking point when Jon was kidnapped by the warlike alien Nyrvnian race. The Legion then came to persuade Superman not to rescue the boy because he and the Nyrvnians were destined to one day help Earth repel an invasion from another galaxy. When Superman failed to return with Jon, his friendship with Pete was destroyed. (Superman also learned at this time that Pete Ross knew his secret identity.) (DC Comics Presents #13)

Post-Crisis

After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, it was said that Superboy had come from a "Pocket Universe" created by the Time Trapper. Outside this universe, Superman's history was completely rewritten so that he had never been Superboy. But in the Pocket, life went on as usual. The Legion eventually discovered this anomaly, which led them and Superman to investigate it. (Legion vol. 3 #37-38) By this time, the Pocket Universe Superboy was under the thumb of the Time Trapper and Pete Ross warned the Legionnaires to flee and avoid him. (Superman vol. 2 #8)

Ultimately Superboy could not bring himself to do the Trapper's bidding and kill his friends. He turned on the Trapper and in their clash, he suffered fatal injuries. Clark died and was buried in the 30th century. (Legion vol. 3 #38, 49)

Life went on in the Pocket Universe, and Superboy's friends reached adulthood. When the Pocket Universe was besieged by three Kryptonian villains from the Phantom Zone (General Zod, Quex-Ul, and Zaora), Superboy's former arch foe Lex Luthor created a protoplasmic lifeform called "Matrix." He fashioned her in the likeness of Lana Lang, outfitted her with a costume reminiscent of Superboy's, and dubbed her Supergirl. Pete Ross remembered the Superman of another universe, and so Luthor sent this Supergirl to try to find him. (Adventures of Superman #444)

Superman and this new Supergirl returned too late to save the Pocket Universe; the three villains wiped out all remaining life on Earth, including Pete and Lex. Supergirl was blasted back to protoplasmic form and into the mainstream universe. Superman used Gold Kryptonite to strip the three villains of their powers, then executed them with a piece of Green Kryptonite. (Superman vol. 2 #22)

In post-Crisis continuity, Pete Ross was never aware of Clark Kent's alter ego. He eventually married Lana Lang and became the Vice President of the United States, under Lex Luthor.

Proty II

» SEE: Kid Quantum > Proteans