Six months after the last Legion story appeared in Action Comics, the group was back. In an eerie replay of history, the Legion started as an occasional back-up feature in Superboy, then a regular feature, then finally pushed Superboy out of his comic entirely. By mid-decade, Superboy was "the Legion comic" in the same way that Adventure had been.
The Legion even spawned its own spinoff comic in 1976, Karate Kid -- which lasted a little over a year.
Perhaps because the Legion itself had survived a brush with literary mortality, death was an ever-present factor in the stories of this period. Three Legionnaires met their doom: Invisible Kid, Chemical King, and ERG-1 (who returned as Wildfire). The very titles of the stories were often death-oriented: "Trust Me or Kill Me," "Murder the Leader," "Timber Wolf - Dead Hero, Live Executioner," "The Silent Death," "Massacre by Remote Control," "The Legion of Super-Executioners," "Welcome Home Daughter -- Now Die," "Death Stroke at Dawn," "Trapped to Live -- Free to Die," "Stay Small or Die," "Charge of the Doomed Legionnaires," "This Legionnaire is Condemned," "Death of a Legend," "The City That Stopped Dead," "Hunt for a Hero-Killer," "Death Duel on Orando."
The best stories of this period included "War Between the Nights and the Days" in #193, "The One-Shot Hero" in #195, "Brainiac Five's Secret Weakness" in #204, "Soljer's Private War" (#210), "The Legion's Lost Home" (#211), "1+1=3" in #216, and #217's "Future Shock for Superboy."
| Comments | ISSUE | DATE | TITLE | Roll Call |
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| -- | SUPERBOY 172 | 71/03 | Brotherly Hate | Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Lightning Lord, Light Lass, R.J. Brande, Saturn Girl, Timber Wolf | 1971-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 173 | 71/04 | Trust Me or Kill Me | Cosmic Boy, Magnetic Kid (as Pol Krinn), Mordru, Superboy | 1971-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 176 | 71/07 | Invisible Invader | Cosmic Boy, Chemical King, Invisible Kid, Mon-El, Ultra Boy | 1971-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 183 | 72/03 | War of the Wraith-Mates | Karate Kid, Mon-El, Princess Projectra, Shadow Lass | 1972-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 184 | 72/04 | One Legionnaire Must Go | Matter-Eater Lad, Renkil Kem, Saturn Girl, Ultra Boy | 1972-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 188 | 72/07 | Curse of the Blood Crystals | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lad, Mordru, Superboy, Ultra Boy | 1972-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 190 | 72/09 | Murder the Leader | Bouncing Boy, Colossal Boy, Dream Girl, Emerald Empress, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Mano, Mon-El, Persuader, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Tharok, Validus, Ultra Boy, Fatal 5 | 1972-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 191 | 72/10 | Attack of the Sun-Scavenger | Bouncing Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Doctor Regulus, Lightning Lad, Princess Projectra, Sun Boy, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf | 1972-5 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 193 | 73/02 | War Between the Nights and Days | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Karate Kid, Matter-Eater Lad, Shrinking Violet, Duo Damsel, King Jonn | 1973-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 195 | 73/06 | The One Shot Hero | Bouncing Boy, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Shrinking Violet, Wildfire (origin)(died) | 1973-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 197 | 73/09 | Timber Wolf: Dead Hero Live Executioner | Brainiac 5, Bouncing Boy, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Matter-Eater Lad, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Duo Damsel, Tr Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy | 1973-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 198 | 73/10 | Fatal Five Who Twisted Time | Brainiac 5, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Emerald Empress, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Mano, Mon-El, Persuader, Princess Projectra, Superboy, Shrinking Violet, Tharok, Validus, Fatal 5 | 1973-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 199 | 73/11 | The Gun That Mastered Men | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Dream Girl, Princess Projectra, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Tyr, Timber Wolf | 1973-5 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 199 | 73/11 | The Impossible Target | Bouncing Boy, Hunter II/Adam Orion | 1973-6 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 200 | 74/02 | The Legionnaire Bride of Starfinger | Brainiac 5, Bouncing Boy, Cosmic Boy, Celebrand, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Color Kid, Dawn Allen, Duplicate Boy, Dream Girl, Don Allen, Dartalg, Fire Lad, Element Lad, Gas Girl, Invisible Kid, Immorto, Karate Kid, Kid Psycho, Life Lass, Lightning Lad, Light Lass, Mon-El, Matter-Eater Lad, Night Girl, Ornitho, Polar Boy, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Psyche, Quantum Queen, R.J. Brande, Rond Vidar, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Supergirl, Shadow Lass, Stone Boy, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Duo Damsel, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy, Wildfire | 1974-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 201 | 74/04 | The Betrayer From Beyond | Cosmic Boy, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Star Boy, Ultra Boy, Wildfire, Porcupine Pete (applicant), Infectious Lass (applicant), Molecule Master(applicant) | 1974-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 201 | 74/04 | The Silent Death | Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl | 1974-2a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 202 | 74/06 | Lost: A Million Miles From Home | Colossal Boy, Shrinking Violet | 1974-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 202 | 74/06 | Wrath of the Devil Fish | Brainiac 5, Element Lad, Light Lass, Mon-El, Matter-Eater Lad, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf, Wildfire (joined) | 1974-3a |
| Reference | SUPERBOY 202 | 74/06 | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | SUPERBOY 203 | 74/08 | Massacre by Remote Control | Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Invisible Kid (died), Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Tharok, Validus | 1974-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 204 | 74/10 | Legionnaire Nobody Remembered | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Anti-Lad(applicant) | 1974-4a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 204 | 74/10 | Brainiac Five's Secret Weakness | Brainiac 5, Saturn Girl, Supergirl, Star Boy | 1974-5 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 205 | 74/12 | Legion of Super-Executioners | Brainiac 5, Insect Queen, Karate Kid, Mon-El, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Ultra Boy, Wildfire | 1974-6 |
| Reference | SUPERBOY 205 | 74/12 | The Lore of the Legion | -- | -- |
| -- | SUPERBOY 206 | 75/02 | Legionnaires Who Haunted Superboy | Brainiac 5, Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Mon-El, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Validus | 1975-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 206 | 75/02 | Welcome Home Daughter...Now Die | Karate Kid, Princess Projectra | 1975-1a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 207 | 75/03 | Rookie Who Betrayed the Legion | Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Roon Dvron, Light Lass, Superboy, Shrinking Violet, Timber Wolf, Universo | 1975-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 207 | 75/03 | Lightning Lad's Day of Dread | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Lightning Lord, Light Lass, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet | 1975-2a |
| B.4.60. | SUPERBOY 208 | 75/04 | Vengeance of the Super-Villains | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Chief, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lord, Mon-El, Nemesis Kid, Radiation Roy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Sun Emperor, Saturn Girl, Spider Girl, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy | 1975-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 209 | 75/06 | Who Can Save the Princess? | Brainiac 5, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Duo Damsel, Timber Wolf | 1975-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 209 | 75/06 | Hero For A Day | Cosmic Boy, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Wildfire, Flynt Brojj | 1975-4a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 210 | 75/08 | Soljer's Private War | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Superboy | 1975-5 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 210 | 75/08 | Lair of the Black Dragon | Karate Kid (origin) | 1975-5a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 211 | 75/09 | The Ultimate Revenge | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chemical King, Element Lad, Light Lass, Roxxas, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Ultra Boy | 1975-6 |
| B.4.20. | SUPERBOY 211 | 75/09 | The Legion's Lost Home | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Fire Lad, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Stone Boy | 1975-6a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 212 | 75/10 | Last Fight For a Legionnaire | Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Karate Kid, Matter-Eater Lad, Phantom Girl, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Calorie Queen (applicant), Magno Lad (applicant), Micro Lad (applicant), Esper Lass (applicant), Toog Lintens(applicant), Phantom Lad(applicant) | 1975-7 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 212 | 75/10 | Death Stroke At Dawn | Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Night Girl, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass | 1975-7a |
| Reference | AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS | 75/12 | -- | -- | -- |
| -- | SUPERBOY 213 | 75/12 | The Jaws of Fear | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Wildfire | 1975-8 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 213 | 75/12 | Trapped to Live -- Free to Die | Timber Wolf, Black Mace | 1975-8a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 214 | 76/01 | No Price Too High | Brainiac 5, Karate Kid, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Wildfire, Leland McCauley IV | 1976-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 214 | 76/01 | Stay Small Or Die | Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Ultra Boy | 1976-1a |
| CAMEO | SUPERMAN 295 | 76/01 | Costume Costume -- Who's Got the Costume | Element Lad, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy | 1976-1b |
| -- | KARATE KID 1 | 76/03 | My World Begins in Yesterday | Brainiac 5, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Mon- El, Nemesis Kid, Saturn Girl | 1976-1c |
| -- | SUPERBOY 215 | 76/03 | Final Eclipse of Sun Boy | Brainiac 5, Element Lad, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl | 1976-2 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 215 | 76/03 | Hero Who Wouldn't Fight | Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Emerald Empress, Lightning Lad, Light Lass, Sun Boy, Shadow Lass, Ultra Boy | 1976-2a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 216 | 76/04 | Hero Who Hated the Legion | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Karate Kid, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Tyroc | 1976-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 216 | 76/04 | 1+1=3 | Bouncing Boy, Duo Damsel | 1976-3a |
| -- | KARATE KID 2 | 76/05 | International Dooms of Major Disaster | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl | 1976-4b |
| -- | SUPERBOY 217 | 76/06 | Charge of the Doomed Legionnaires | Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf | 1976-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 217 | 76/06 | Future Shock for Superboy | Colossal Boy, Laurel Kent, Light Lass, Mon-El, Superboy, Wildfire | 1976-4a |
| -- | KARATE KID 3 | 76/07 | The Ravager | Karate Kid | 1976-5a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 218 | 76/07 | Super- Villain the World Never Knew | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Light Lass, Mon-El, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Tyroc (joined), Absorbancy Boy(applicant), Quake Kid(applicant), Infectious Lass (applicant) | 1976-5 |
| -- | KARATE KID 4 | 76/09 | Rage of Yesterdays Lost | Brainiac 5, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Princess Projectra | 1976-6a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 219 | 76/09 | Plunder Ploy of the Fatal Five | Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Duplicate Boy, Emerald Empress, Lightning Lad, Light Lass, Mano, Mon-El, Persuader, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Tharok, Ultra Boy, Validus, Fatal 5 | 1976-6 |
| CAMEO | DC COMICS PRESENTS 2 | 76/10 | Race to the End of Time | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Mon-El, Princess Projectra, Wildfire | 1976-7b |
| -- | SUPERBOY 220 | 76/10 | Super-Soldiers of the Slave Maker | Element Lad, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Superboy, Ultra Boy, Wildfire | 1976-7 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 220 | 76/10 | Dream Girl's Living Nightmare | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Dream Girl | 1976-7a |
| -- | KARATE KID 5 | 76/11 | The Tomorrow Thief | Karate Kid | 1976-8a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 221 | 76/11 | The Living Key | Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Light Lass, R.J. Brande, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Timber Wolf, Grimbor | 1976-8 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 222 | 76/12 | This Legionnaire is Condemned | Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Mon-El, Princess Projectra, Superboy, Shadow Lass, Tyroc, Ultra Boy | 1976-9 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 222 | 76/12 | Death of a Legend | Light Lass, Superboy, Timber Wolf, Questar | 1976-9a |
| -- | KARATE KID 6 | 77/01 | Showdown With Commander Blud | Cosmic Boy, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Sun Boy, Star Boy | 1977-1a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 223 | 77/01 | We Can't Escape the Trap in Time | Chameleon Boy, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Princess Projectra, Pulsar Stargrave, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Star Boy, Time Trapper | 1977-1 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 224 | 77/02 | When Stargrave Strikes | Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Pulsar Stargrave, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy | 1977-2 |
| -- | KARATE KID 7 | 77/03 | The Gyro-Master Strikes Twice | Karate Kid | 1977-2a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 225 | 77/03 | And Who Shall Lead Them? | Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Dream Girl, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Wildfire, Ultra Boy | 1977-3 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 225 | 77/03 | A Matter of Priorities | Princess Projectra, Ambassador Relnic, Sun Boy, Timber Wolf | 1977-3a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 226 | 77/04 | The Dazzling Debut of Dawnstar | Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Dawnstar, Lightning Lad, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy, Wildfire | 1977-4 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 226 | 77/04 | Five Against One | Brainiac 5, Element Lad, Pulsar Stargrave, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf | 1977-4a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 227 | 77/05 | War at World's End | Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Pulsar Stargrave, Sun Boy, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Wildfire | 1977-5 |
| -- | DC SPECIAL 28 | 77/06 | The City That Stopped Dead | Brainiac 5, Chemical King, Phantom Girl, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy | 1977-5a |
| -- | KARATE KID 8 | 77/06 | Pandemonium...Panic...Pulsar | Karate Kid, Princess Projectra | 1977-5b |
| -- | SUPERBOY 228 | 77/06 | That a World Might Live... | Chemical King (died), Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Light Lass, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf, Wildfire | 1977-6 |
| -- | KARATE KID 9 | 77/07 | The Black Belt Contract | Karate Kid, Princess Projectra | 1977-6a |
| -- | SUPERBOY 229 | 77/07 | Hunt For a Hero- Killer | Cosmic Boy, Chemical King, Chameleon Boy, Dawnstar, Lightning Lad, Light Lass, Mon-El, Night Girl, Superboy, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf, Wildfire | 1977-7 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 230 | 77/08 | Creature Who Conned the Legion | Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Sun Boy, Superboy | 1977-8 |
| -- | SUPERBOY 230 | 77/08 | Bouncing Boy Bounces Back | Brainiac 5, Bouncing Boy, Cosmic Boy, Roon Dvron, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Superboy, Saturn Girl | 1977-8a |
| -- | KARATE KID 10 | 77/09 | Death Duel on Orando | Cosmic Boy, Karate Kid, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Superboy | 1977-9a |
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