Legion of Super-Heroes
Monitor Board

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Cosmic Boy
Cosmic Boy
Saturn Girl
Saturn Girl
Lightning Lad
Lightning Lad
Duo Damsel
Duo Damsel
Phantom Girl
Phantom Girl
Chameleon Boy
Chameleon Boy
Colossal Boy
Colossal Boy
Invisible Kid
Invisible Kid
Superboy
Superboy
Star Boy
Star Boy
Supergirl
Supergirl
Brainiac 5
Brainiac 5
Sun Boy
Sun Boy
Shrinking Violet
Shrinking Violet
Bouncing Boy
Bouncing Boy
Ultra Boy
Ultra Boy
Mon-El
Mon-El
Matter-Eater Lad
Matter-Eater Lad
Element Lad
Element Lad
Light Lass
Light Lass
Dream Girl
Dream Girl
Princess Projectra
Princess Projectra
Ferro Lad
Ferro Lad
Karate Kid
Karate Kid
Shadow Lass
Shadow Lass
Timber Wolf
Timber Wolf
Chemical King
Chemical King
 

Some Words on Membership Order

PLEASE NOTE: The information presented on this website is ours, as are any conclusions or speculations derived from the facts published in the Silver Age lore. On the point of membership order, or anything else, Legion fans are free to make their own conclusions.

Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad (then Lightning Boy) were the first Legion members ever shown (Adventure Comics No. 247). According to origin text features in Adventure Comics No. 352 and Adventure Comics No. 354, these three were the charter and founding members of the Club. According to the later Superboy No. 147's origin tale, 1) Cosmic Boy was the first to accept R. J. Brande's offer, followed by 2) Saturn Girl, and then 3) Lightning Boy (called Lightning Lad in the abbreviated story told by telepathic tape).

4) Triplicate Girl (later becoming Duo Damsel) followed by 5) Phantom Girl were the next Legionnaires to join according to Superboy No. 147's origin tale.

Based on the order we see them in Action Comics No. 267, 6) Chameleon Boy, 7) Colossal Boy, and 8) Invisible Kid were the next to join. We know from the text feature in Adventure Comics No. 350 that Chameleon Boy applied at the same time as Colossal Boy. We also know that Chameleon Boy joined before both Colossal Boy and Invisible Kid because the Legionnaires always supply figurines of new members to Superboy as they join. In Superboy No. 93, we can see figurines of Chameleon Boy, and then Colossal Boy, directly to the right of the three charter members.

9) Superboy was was made an honorary member in Adventure Comic No. 247. In retrospect, we can assume that the unnamed members seen in the background during his testing were Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Chameleon Boy, and Triplicate Girl. A third Earth-type male standing in the far right of panel 3 of page 5 may have been either: a) Chameleon Boy, having just demonstrated Superboy his power of super-disguise; b) Marla, the Legion's senior advisor, or c) another applicant. We have seen in subsequent stories that applicants are indeed invited into the clubhouse, sit at the briefing table, and are given their own nameplates (as seen with Bouncing Boy, Sun Boy, and Shrinking Violet in Action Comics No. 276).

In Superboy No. 86, Superboy indicates that the three Legion figurines he was given were "some members of the Legion of Super-Heroes," indicating that there were more than three members during his visit.

Later post-Silver Age lore professes that Brainiac 5 and Supergirl, among others, joined before Superboy. This erroneous and wholly unnecessary assumption was no-doubt first based on the flashback panel that appeared in Adventure Comics No. 323 showing Saturn Girl thinking back to the day Superboy was sworned into the Legion. Brainiac 5, who we know joined at the same time as Supergirl, was seen in the background of that thought panel.

Aside from the fact that other flashbacks of memory have been inaccurate (Cosmic Boy seeing Garth Ranzz dressed as Lightning Lad before he acquired his super-power, etc.), because the remembered scene marks both the day Superboy "joined" and the first day of a new term year (election day), if Saturn Girl were remembering events following Superboy's initiation in Adventure Comics No. 247 (of which there is no proof), it suggests that Superboy joined on the same day that Cosmic Boy was selected as leader by the clubhouse computer, which is highly unlikely.

What explains away both paradoxes is if Saturn Girl is actually recalling the ceremony that took place exactly one year previous - just before the election and start of the second term year (in Adventure Comics No. 304) when Superboy was sworn in and upgraded to a full regular member, and when Supergirl' and Brainiac 5 were members of the team. This also explains, and not ignores, why the costumes are the later designs and not the early ones.

Furthermore, Adventure Comics No. 267 showed that the Legionnaires were willing to jail Superboy for life because they mistakenly believed that he would become a criminal in five years time. Despite their previous boasts of knowing Superboy's "life story" in Adventure Comics No. 247, this new evidence strongly indicates that the Legion really only knew of Superboy's teenaged life until time-travel and time-monitoring was recently made legal (see Adventure Comics No. 250 for factual details on that). For if they already knew of his long and heroic career as Superman, and all the times he was destined to protect the Earth, it would be irrational of them to even consider life imprisonment for him. It is much more likelythat these young, teenaged super-heroes would be boastful than irrational. Not knowing of the details of Superman's life precludes any knowledge of people he associated with, such as Supergirl. Soon after this story, the Legion gained knowledge of Supermanand Supergirl, which is why they then went back to invite her into the team next.

The telepathic tape that shows an abridged origin of the Legion in Superboy No. 147, glosses over all these previously published details for simplicity's sake. To allow that recording - which was meant to present the greatness of the Legion to visitors - to supercede the logic of what came before it involves choosing to ignore: 1) that Lightning Lad was first called Lightning Boy, 2) that the charter members' originally wore different costumes when they made Superboy an honorary member, and 3) that Superboy was visited by the Legion before Supergirl even appeared in the lore.

Supergirl first applied for membership shortly after this time but was rejected due to red-k exposure that had made her older than the constitutional age-limit. 10) Star Boy was the next Legionnaire to be seen (in Adventure Comics No. 282) and so, logically, he had to have been the person chosen in her stead.

11) Supergirl and 12) Brainiac 5 were shown joining next in Action Comics No. 276. Supergirl is listed first because the Legionnaires gave her her plaque, and reason for acceptance, first during the induction ceremony.

Sun Boy, Shrinking Violet, and Bouncing Boy were all first seen together as applicants in the above story, but lost out to Supergirl and Brainiac 5. 13) Sun Boy was later shown to have eventually joined in Adventure Comics No. 290, which came out in late September of 1961. The first time we see that Shrinking Violet and Bouncing Boy later made the grade, as well, is when the two were included in the membership listing of "The Origin and Powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes" feature in Superman Annual No. 4, which came out about a month later on November 9th, 1961. The reason we know that 14) Shrinking Violet joined before 15) Bouncing Boy is because she was seen standing alongside the other Legion members during Bouncing Boy's induction ceremony in the flashback scene of Adventure Comics No. 301. It is more likely that Shrinking Violet joined at the same time as Sun Boy because of the "one boy, one girl" rule, and that Bouncing Boy was allowed to join later due to special circumstances (as detailed in Adventure Comics No. 301.). His joining seemed to have dissolved the new member limit rule completely.

16) Ultra Boy joined next in Superboy No. 98. 17) Mon-El was made an honorary member in Adventure Comics No. 300 (Superboy No. 100 "Smallville Mailsack"), but after his release from the Phantom Zone became permanent, in Adventure Comics No. 305, he was a made an active member. 18) Matter-Eater Lad was seen joining in Adventure Comics No. 303, while 19) Element Lad joined in Adventure Comics No. 307, and 20) Lightning Lass (who later became Light Lass) in Adventure Comics No. 308.

21) Dream Girl joined in Adventure Comics No. 317 but resigned later that same issue. It is likely, however, that members who leave and then rejoin also maintain their "seniority standing" - as in the cases of Sun Boy, Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass, Bouncing Boy, and Star Boy - since a member's original induction date can never change, regardless of changes in status afterwards.

22) Princess Projectra, 23) Ferro Lad, and 24) Karate Kid joined next, that being the order in which they were seen being accepted in Adventure Comics No. 346.

25) Shadow Lass joined after this, in Adventure Comics No. 366. 26) Timber Wolf and 27) Chemical King graduated the Legion Academy together and were both made members at the end of Adventure Comics No. 372. Timber Wolf is listed first because of his long-standing offer to join the team.