| ELEMENT LAD (Jan Arrah) | CHRONOLOGY |
| Created by Edmond Hamilton and John Forte |
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Element Lad (Jan Arrah)
CHRONOLOGY
Element Lad first appeared in Adventure Comics #307/2 (April 1963).
Below is the definitive list of appearances of Element Lad in chronological order. Flashback sequences or story entries will be followed by a [Flashback] note. Stories that for some reason are no longer part of current continuity will have a comment saying this in a note following the entry.
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Element Lad Chronology
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| Superboy Vol. 1 #211 (September 1975): "The Ultimate Revenge" [Flashback] |
| Adventure Comics #307/2 (April 1963): "The Secret Power of the Mystery Super-Hero" |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #70/3 (July 1963): "The Secret of Silver Kryptonite" |
| Adventure Comics #310 (July 1963): "The Doom of the Super-Heroes" [Behind the scenes] |
| Adventure Comics #316 (January 1964): "The Renegade Super-Hero" |
| Action Comics #309 (February 1964): "The Superman Super-Spectacular" |
| Adventure Comics #317 (February 1964): "The Menace of Dream Girl" [Behind the scenes] |
| Adventure Comics #319 (April 1964): "The Legion's Suicide Squad" |
| Adventure Comics #320 (May 1964): "The Revenge of the Knave from Krypton" |
| World's Finest Comics #168 (August 1967): "The Return of the Composite Superman" [Flashback] |
| Adventure Comics #321 (June 1964): "The Code of the Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #323 (August 1964): "The Eight Impossible Missions" |
| Adventure Comics #324 (September 1964): "The Legion of Super-Outlaws" |
| Adventure Comics #325 (October 1964): "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes" |
| Adventure Comics #326 (November 1964): "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires" |
| Adventure Comics #328 (January 1965): "The Lad Who Wrecked the Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #329 (February 1965): "The Bizarro Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #330 (March 1965): "The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire" |
| Adventure Comics #331 (April 1965): "The Triumph of the Legion of Super-Villains" |
| Adventure Comics #333 (June 1965): "The War Between Krypton and Earth" |
| Adventure Comics #335 (August 1965): "Starfinger" |
| Adventure Comics #336 (September 1965): "The True Identity of Starfinger" |
| Adventure Comics #337 (October 1965): "The Weddings That Wrecked the Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #338 (November 1965): "The Menace of the Sinister Super-Babies" |
| Adventure Comics #340 (January 1966): "Computo the Conqueror" |
| Adventure Comics #341 (February 1966): "Colossal Boy's One-Man War" |
| Adventure Comics #342 (March 1966): "The Legionnaire Who Killed" |
| Adventure Comics #343 (April 1966): "The Evil Hand of the Luck Lords" |
| Adventure Comics #344 (May 1966): "The Super-Stalag of Space" |
| Adventure Comics #345 (June 1966): "The Execution of Matter-Eater Lad" |
| Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966): "One of Us is a Traitor" [Behind the scenes] |
| Adventure Comics #348 (September 1966): "Target: 21 Legionnaires" |
| Adventure Comics #350 (November 1966): "The Outcast Super-Heroes" |
| Adventure Comics #351 (December 1966): "The Forgotten Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #353 (February 1967): "The Doomed Legionnaire" |
| Adventure Comics #356 (May 1967): "The Five Legion Orphans" |
| Adventure Comics #359 (August 1967): "The Outlawed Legionnaires" |
| Adventure Comics #360 (September 1967): "The Legion Chain Gang" |
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #106 (October 1967): "The Lone Wolf Legionnaire Reporter" |
| Adventure Comics #363 (December 1967): "Black Day for the Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #373 (October 1968): "The Tornado Twins" |
| Adventure Comics #374 (November 1968): "Mission: Diabolical" |
| Adventure Comics #375 (December 1968): "The King of the Legion" |
| Adventure Comics #376 (January 1969): "The Execution of Chameleon Boy" |
| Action Comics #379/2 (August 1969): "One of Us is an Impostor" |
| Action Comics #384/2 (January 1970): "Lament for a Legionnaire" |
| Action Comics #387/2 (April 1970): "One Hero Too Many" |
| Action Comics #390/2 (July 1970): "The Tyrant and the Traitor" |
| Action Comics #391/2 (August 1970): "The Ordeal of Element Lad" |
| Action Comics #392/2 (September 1970): "The Legionnaires Who Never Were" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #198 (October 1973): "The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #200 (January-February 1974): "The Legionnaire Bride of Starfinger" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #201 (March-April 1974): "The Betrayer From Beyond" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #202/2 (May-June 1974): "The Wrath of the Devil-Fish" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #203 (July-August 1974): "Massacre by Remote Control" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #207/2 (March 1975): "Lightning Lad's Day of Dread" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #211 (September 1975): "The Ultimate Revenge" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #215 (March 1976): "The Final Eclipse of Sun Boy" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #218 (July 1976): "The Secret Villain the World Never Knew" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #220 (October 1976): "The Super Soldiers of the Slave-Maker" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #226/2 (April 1977): "Five Against One" |
| Superboy Vol. 1 #230 (August 1977): "The Creature Who Conned the Legion" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #231 (September 1977): "A Day in the Death of a World" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #236 (February 1978): "A World Born Anew" |
| All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (1978): "The Millennium Massacre" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #241 (July 1978): "Prologue to Earthwar" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #242 (August 1978): "Startarget: Earth" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #243 (September 1978): "Earth's Last Stand" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #244 (October 1978): "The Dark Circle That Crushed Earth" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #245 (November 1978): "Mordru, Master of Earth" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #246/2 (December 1978): "A World for the Winning" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #247 (January 1979): "Savage Sanctuary" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #247/2 (January 1979): "Celebration" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #250 (April 1979): "This is the Day the Universe Dies" |
| Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #254 (August 1979): "A Madman Shall Lead Them" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #266 (August 1980): "Kantuu" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #267 (September 1980): "To Bottle a Genie" |
| Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #1 (January 1981): "The Past ...Seen Darkly" |
| Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #3 (March 1981): "Revelation" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #275 (May 1981): "Of Pride, Passion, and Piracy" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #277 (July 1981): "The Man Who Chained the Legion" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #278 (August 1981): "Tragedy on the Top of the World" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #279 (September 1981): "Castle Grimbor Must Fall" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #280 (October 1981): "O! Call Back Yesterday" |
| Brave and the Bold #179 (October 1981): "Time-Bomb with the Thousand-Year Fuse" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #284 (February 1982): "The Soul-Thief from the Stars" |
| DC Comics Presents #43 (March 1982): "In Final Battle" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #287 (May 1982): "Save the Suicide Squad" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #288 (June 1982): "The Legionnaire's Made For Burning" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #289/2 (July 1982): "Once Upon an Insanity" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Annual Vol. 2 #1 (1982): "Monster in a Little Girl's Mind" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #290 (August 1982): "And the Servant Shall Be a Sign" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #291 (September 1982): "A Sign of Darkness Dawning" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #292 (October 1982): "Darkness Transcendent" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #293 (November 1982): "Within the Darkness" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #294 (December 1982): "Darkseid" |
| Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #316/2 (October 1984): "The Path Not Taken" [Flashback] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #296 (February 1983): "What Do You Do On the Day After Doomsday?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #298 (April 1983): "The Edge of Nowhere" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #299 (May 1983): "Not a Ghost of a Chance" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #300 (June 1983): "The Future is Forever" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #301 (July 1983): "Different Paths, Different Dooms" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #302 (August 1983): "Family Matters" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Annual Vol. 2 #2 (1983): "Whatever Gods There Be" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #304 (October 1983): "Siege Perilous" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #305 (November 1983): "Violet's Story" |
| New Adventures of Superboy #50 (February 1984): "Dial V for Villain" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #307 (January 1984): "The Prophet Shall Speak" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #310 (April 1984): "Omen" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #311 (May 1984): "Destruction by Design" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #312 (June 1984): "Good Cop, Bad Cop?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 2 #313 (July 1984): "Death Threat" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #2 (September 1984): "Where a Villain?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Annual Vol. 2 #3 (1984): "The Curse" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #3 (October 1984): "Everywhere a Villain?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #4 (November 1984): "Lest Villainy Triumph" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #5 (December 1984): "An Eye for an Eye, a Villain for a Hero!" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #7 (February 1985): "A Choice of Dooms" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #8 (March 1985): "To Destroy a World" |
| DC Comics Presents #80 (April 1985): "A World Full of Supermen" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #9 (April 1985): "Reunion" |
| Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #322 (April 1985): "Lost Among the Missing" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #10 (May 1985): "Election Day" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #11 (June 1985): "Taking Care of Business: Old Business" |
| Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes #325 (July 1985): "5 To the Infinite Power" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #12 (July 1985): "The More Things Change" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #12/2 (July 1985): "The More Things Stay the Same" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #3 (June 1985): "Oblivion Upon Us" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #5 (August 1985): "Worlds in Limbo" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #13 (August 1985): "If You Think Khunds Are Cuddly, You'll Love the Lythyls!" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #14 (September 1985): "Unto the New Generation" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #15 (October 1985): "Hostage on a Hostile Star" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #16 (November 1985): "Baptism" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #17 (December 1985): "A New Beginning" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #18 (January 1986): "Has Anyone Noticed a Crisis Going On?" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #8 (November 1985): "A Flash of the Lightning!" |
| Crisis on Infinite Earths #10 (January 1986): "Death at the Dawn of Time!" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #19 (February 1986): "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #20 (March 1986): "To Control a World" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #21 (April 1986): "Obsession" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #22 (May 1986): "Dead End" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #23 (June 1986): "Back Home in Hell" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #24 (July 1986): "Suspicion" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #25 (August 1986): "Revelation" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #26 (September 1986): "Illusion" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #27 (October 1986): "Going Home" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Annual Vol. 3 #2 (1986): "Child of Darkness, Child of Light" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #28 (November 1986): "The Lost Hero" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #29 (December 1986): "No Star Shall Shine!" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #30 (January 1987): "Brainy's Lucky Day" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #33 (April 1987): "The Universo Project, Chapter 2: Forgotten Planet" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #34 (May 1987): "The Universo Project, Chapter 3: Forgotten Foe" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #35 (June 1987): "The Universo Project, Chapter 4: Forgotten Friends" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #36 (July 1987): "Peace, Quiet and Impending Doom" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #37 (August 1987): "A Twist in Time" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #38 (September 1987): "The Greatest Hero of Them All" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #40 (November 1987): "What Starfinger Touches..." |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #41 (December 1987): "Shall Ne'er Burn So Bright..." |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #42 (January 1988): "To Sleep a Thousand Years..." |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #43 (February 1988): "And Wake to Find a Dream" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #45 (April 1988): "Unlucky Streak" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #46 (May 1988): "On the Fourth Hand" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #48 (July 1988): "A Time to Die" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #49 (August 1988): "A Time to Live" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #50 (September 1988): "Life and Death and the End of Time" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #51 (October 1988): "The Trial of Brainiac Five" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #52 (November 1988): "Rites of Passage" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #53 (December 1988): "Hunters and Hunted" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #54 (winter 1988): "Strength in Numbers" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #56 (January 1989): "By Hope Ensnared" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #58 (March 1989): "If Thine Eye Offend Thee" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #60 (May 1989): "When Magic Shall Return" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #61 (June 1989): "Will Magic or Science Prevail?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #62 (July 1989): "Why Must Magic Triumph?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 3 #63 (August 1989): "Where Has All the Magic Gone" |
Glorith Timeline ChronologyThese appearances are no longer in continuity. |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #6 (April 1990): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #7 (May 1990): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #10 (August 1990): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #12 (October 1990): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #31 (July 1992): [The Elements of Heartbreak!] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #34 (October 1992): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #36 (Late November 1992): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #39 (January 1993): [Beginnings] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #40 (February 1993): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #41 (March 1993): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #45 (July 1993): [New Members, New Problems!] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #46 (August 1993): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #47 (September 1993): [Mordru Triumphant!] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #48 (October 1993): [Mordru Triumphant!] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #50 (Late November 1993): [No Title] |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #60 (August 1994): [End of an Era 3] "Infinite Possibilities" |
| Valor #23 (September 1994): [End of an Era 5] "Infinite Valor" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 #61 (September 1994): [End of an Era 6] "Borrowed Time" |
Post-Infinite Crisis Chronology |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #1 (October 2009): "Superboy, The Boy of Steel, Part One" |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #2 (November 2009): "Superboy, The Boy of Steel, Part Two" [Flashback] |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #3 (December 2009): "Superboy, The Boy of Steel, Part Three" |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #8/2 (April 2010): [30] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Prologue Part Two: The Future Is Now" |
| Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton #1 (May 2010): [31] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part One: Invaded" |
| Supergirl Vol. 5 #51 (May 2010): [33] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part Two: Leaders" |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #9/2 (May 2010): [35] "Unity" |
| Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton #2 (June 2010): [36] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part Five: Bottles and Battles" |
| Adventure Comics Vol. 3 #10 (June 2010): [38] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part Six: Divided, Conquerable" |
| Superman Vol. 1 #699 (June 2010): [40] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part Eight: Irony in Ire" |
| Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton #3 (June 2010): [41] "Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton, Part Nine: This is the Way the World Ends" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #3 (September 2010): "Earth-Man's Choice" |
| Adventure Comics #521 (February 2011): "The Summons of the Ring" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #8 (February 2011): "The Shape of Death" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #12 (June 2011): "False Trails" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #13 (July 2011): "False Hopes" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #15 (September 2011): "False Victory" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 6 #16 (October 2011): "Endings" |
Post-Flashpoint Chronology |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #1 (November 2011): "Renegade World" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #2 (December 2011): "Hostile World" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #3 (January 2012): "Shadow War" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #4 (February 2012): "Not What They Seem?" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #5 (March 2012): "One Day, A Thousand Years from Now..." |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #6 (April 2012): "Dragon & Phoenix" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #7 (May 2012): "Phoenix Rising" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #9 (July 2012): "Capture" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #12 (October 2012): "Cataclysm" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #13 (December 2012): "Questions" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #14 (January 2013): "Overwhelmed" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #16 (March 2013): "Choose Wisely" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #18 (May 2013): "Home's End" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #19 (June 2013): "World's End" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #20 (July 2013): "Vanishing World" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #21 (August 2013): "Endings, Part 1" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #22 (September 2013): "Endings, Part 2" |
| Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 7 #23 (October 2013): "Aftermath" |
| Justice League United Annual #1 (December 2014): "The Infinitus Saga, Part 1" [Flashback] |