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BIZARRO BACK ISSUES: BOW DOWN TO BOUNCING BOY (1968)

Ever since I wrote that Ask Chris a few weeks back about how I’d rebuild the Legion of Super-Heoroes, I’ve been seized with the desire to go back and re-read some of the classic Legion stories from the Silver Age, but when I sat down to do just that, I was really surprised. Not because the stories are weird, mind you — I knew they were pretty bonkers from the first time I read them, and they certainly haven’t gotten any less weird since — but because they threw the light on one of the most grievous oversights of my writing career. See, as happy as I was with the lineup I came up with for that column, I left out the character who is unquestionably the most powerful member, the actual, official “King of the Legion.” I speak, of course, of Bouncing Boy.

You may laugh, but it’s true, and it happens in a comic where he schools the rest of the Legion so bad that they literally start tearing off their clothes in some kind of organized tribute ceremony. And that’s not even close to being the weirdest thing that happens here.

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