#duplicate boy

[sprockyeahlegion]

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[somewherefornow]

DAWNSTAR & DRAKE BURROUGHS/WILDFIRE in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (1989)

[evilhorse]

Old news, Shadow Lass.

[chernobog13]

Various side characters from the Silver age-version of the Legion of Super-Heroes, by Curt Swan. I'm embarrassed to state that I can't recall the name of the blue-skinned guy at bottom left, between Marla Latham and the White Witch. Likewise for the guy in purple with the green cape at top left, between Life Lass and Ornitho.

[protytwo]

LoSH Appreciation Week Day 1 - Body Swap

Looks like Shrinking Violet and Timber Wolf are getting ready to go off on a mission with Chameleon Boy. You could be forgiven for assuming that's really Violet. It's not like we had any reason to suspect an imposter.

The first clue, in hindsight, was when the mission went bad and several Legionnaires were trapped on an asteroid. Colossal Boy confesses his feelings for Violet.

Why is she upset? Does she know something that she can't tell Gim?

When Shrinking Violet's longtime, long distance boyfriend Duplicate Boy finds out Violet is making time with Colossal Boy he flies off to confront them.

"Gim-- Who--" Odd that you don't recognize your own boyfriend, Violet.

But eventually Duplicate Boy calms down, and...

Yup, she's not the Violet you fell in love with. Luckily for her, Duplicate Boy goes away without any greater confrontation.

Then much later the Legion goes to Weber's World to confront the Emerald Empress.

Was Violet supposed to know the layout of Weber's World? Maybe.

But a Durlan Nerve-Cruncher move? That doesn't sound like our Violet.

But Shvaughn and Element Lad were already suspicious after the Duplicate Boy incident. With a little more research, they've pretty well figured it out. But if this isn't the real Shrinking Violet, then they need to find and save the real Violet without the imposter or the kidnappers figuring it out. A secret meeting takes place under Legion HQ.

After over a year, the whole plot is ready to be revealed.

In a Legion cruiser, on the way to respond to a supposed priority alert from Imsk, the fake Violet is caught out, and a psych-probe reveals the truth.

Yera, a Durlan actress has been tricked into helping the Imskian Liberation Movement without understanding that they had kidnapped Violet.

But the Legion is able to find the Movement and Violet.

The Legion then breaks up the Movement and frees Violet. The Violet who emerges after time to recover from her ordeal has been somewhat hardened, and has had to reevaluate her friendships and priorities.

[why-i-love-comics]

Duplicate Boy info page

art by Jerry Bingham & Dick Giordano

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Duplicate Boy by patrick olliffe

[sebeth]

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