Cover: Mike Grell
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #1
“The Secret of the Quintile Crystal!”
writer Gerry Conway · artist Ric Estrada · inker Jack Abel · colorist Anthony Tollin · colorist Drew Moore · letterer Ben Oda · cover Mike Grell
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Full credits
writer Gerry Conway
artist Ric Estrada
inker Jack Abel
colorist Anthony Tollin
colorist Drew Moore
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Mike Grell
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The Legion hunt down a space dragon whose radioactive scales help the people of Imsk maintain their shrinking powers. When too many scales are removed at once, the dragon explodes and merges Shrinking Violet, Colossal Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl into a berserk composite Legionnaire.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).