#blok issue

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THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1980) #272 "The Secret Origin of Blok!" (201o)

Publication Date: 2/81

Creators: Gerry Conway, Steve Ditko, Frank Chiaramonte, Todd Klein, Bob Le Rose

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Plot Summary:

Blok and a few others audition for Legion membership and Blok recounts his story. Meanwhile, the Starburst bandits break from prison. They enlist the applicants to help with the jailbreak and Blok saves the day, earning Legion membership.

Notes:

There is also a prison in the Himalayas...Conway just likes putting prisons on mountains apparently?

Apparently Blok was a child when the Legionnaires were already adults...Are they still going with the whole "anti-age serum" explanation?

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THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1980) #270 "Who Is the Dark Man?" (199o)

Publication Date: 12/80

Creators: Gerry Conway, Jimmy Janes, Frank Chiaramonte, Milt Snapinn, Gene D'Angelo

Roll Call: 

Plot Summary:

Following the Dark Man's orders, the Fatal Five trap Mon, Tasmia, Projectra, Wildfire, Vi, and Gim in a neutron sphere in the Atlantic Ocean that they can't escape. They then capture Garth and Imra at Legion HQ, but Ayla gets away and meets with Brin at the Allons' trashed apartment. They ask the League of Super-Assassins for info about the Dark Man and Blok agrees to help.

Projectra gets them out of the bubble by tricking a sea monster into popping it.

Brin, Ayla, and Blok storm the Dark Man's ship and discover that he is a full-flesh Tharok

Notes:

There is a prison near Mount Everest