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In the same issue that gave us Storm Boy and Lester Spiffany were depicted a number of would-be Legionnaires who went unnamed, their powers never shown.

I thought it might be fun to name and flesh them out a bit. Here are brief descriptions of these characters lost to Legion lore...

1). Attenuated flower insignia worn by a boy with blue-black hair. The rest of his suit was purple and he wore a blue cape.

2). Curly brown-haired beau with dark brown shirt featuring a black chest-panel worn over red tights.

3). Orange-haired bouffant number dressed all in green with open circle pattern.

4). Black-haired guy wearing a pastel-blue jumpsuit.

5). Brunette gal, possibly in yellow.

6). Light-brown haired guy wearing a tannish, loose turtleneck (cowl neck?) with a weird red and black insignia that could be a mouth or an eye or some tribal symbol.

7). Blue-black haired dude in bright blue with a red chest piece.

8). Brown-haired guy with a part down the middle wearing shades of green with black, blockey 'V'.

9).Red-haired hunk with a spit-curl and buzz-cut back wearing red with a purple diamond and shoulder pieces.

10). Wavy-haired brunette fella in mud-brown with blocky spike-things at the top of his arms.

OK- who wants to name and 'fill out' a Legion character from the team's earliest appearances?

TN

I'll start off and pick #3, the orange-colored bouffant number.

She was obviously Lydda Jath, the future Night Girl, on her first 'scouting' mission in her quest to score her stalkee, Cosmic Boy.

A clever dye job and a costumecolor to throw us off the track-- that Night Girl was sneaky when she went after her man.

The circles were following a moon motif.

Next?

TN

What issue were these characters in, Todd?

It was in the 'Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy', contained in the LSH Archive #1-- which I just discovered doesn't have a table of contents. Is that true for everyone's copy?

The other Legion Archives all have extensive Tables of Contents. Too bad, since that first Archive is the one that I would've thought needed a TOC more than any of the others.

Unfortunately, I don't have the regular comic of this one.

I hope you've got the Archive-- if so, it's in the final third of the volume, I'd say.

TN

I don't have the archive, but I do have a different reprint. The original issue was ADVENTURE # 301.

I'll go with # 1 on your list. The "attenuated flower" doesn't look like a flower to me, though. It seems to be more of an elongated, four-point star.

"Distorter Lad," as I call him, had thus the power to create distortion fields which caused people to lose their bearings and view reality as if through a funhouse mirror. He was rejected because his power wasn't localized. It would affect everyone in his presence -- heroes as well as villains.

After being turned down by the Legion, Distorter Lad found a rewarding career as a political speechwriter.

I'll take:
10). Wavy-haired brunette fella in mud-brown with blocky spike-things at the top of his arms.

That musta been the legendary "Eye-Poke Pete". Unfortuantely, nobody wanted to see a demonstration of his power after he introduced himself