Mr. Mxyzptlk (Villains) #1

	Date:	February 1998
	Title:	“Invader from the 10th Dimension!”
	Credits:	Alan Grant (Writer) • Tom Morgan (Penciller) • Scott Koblish (Inker) • Janice Chiang (Letterer) • Glenn Whitmore (Colorist) • Maureen McTigue (Assistant [Editor]) • Joey Cavalieri (Editor) • Jason Pearson (Cover)
	Plot:	In an effort to find help to fight the Ultimator, Mr. Mxyzptlk dives into his comic book collection, starting with “Logjam of Super-Heroes.”  When the Ultimator follows him and defeats the Logjam, Mxyzptlk flees.  In the end, the tale is revealed to be a story being told to Lois and Superman by Mr. Mxyzptlk. Only scenes in which Legion of Super-Heroes characters appear are dealt with here.
Character and Object Tracking Analysis Notes CHANGE HISTORY Date of Change Content of Change 11/17/98 Posted 12/01/99 Unified to a single file

Character and Object Tracking

Heroes

Villains

Locations

Name	Previous Appearance	Next Appearance
Heroes
Lightning Lice Loud Kid Negative Lass Kid Lass Beachball Boy Kid Kid Batter-Eater Lad Butter-Eater Lad Butler-Eater Lad Button Eater Lad	No actual appearance; imaginary story
Mutton-Eater Lad	No actual appearance; imaginary story, mention only
unnamed versions of Ultra Boy, Spark, Apparition, Star Boy, Ferro, Cosmic Boy, Gates, and Wildfire, and unidentifiable others (many, up to 78)	No actual appearance; imaginary story
Villains
Mr. Mxyzptlk	No actual appearance; imaginary story
The Ultimator	No actual appearance; imaginary story
No-Brainiac 5	No actual appearance; imaginary story, mention only
Locations
Logjam Headquarters	No actual appearance; imaginary story

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Analysis Notes

Cover	This is a parody of the cover when Superman became “electric blue.”
8	Note that the characters here are versions of the members of Team 20, whom Mr. Mxyzptlk might had spied on while they were stuck in the 20th century.
	Legion of Super-Heroes had recently passed #100 when this was published, although the September 1997 date is incorrect.
	The number in the “L” logo is supposed to indicate the reading order of the Legion books.  41 is a bit high for a number reset annually.
	The creator names are parodies: “Stermxypk” is Roger Stern, “Moxyptl” is Jeff Moy, and “Carztlk” is W.C. Carani.  Note that these were not the creators for the Team 20 book, so maybe this should have been titled “Logjammers” instead.
9	This is a parody of the running joke in normalman, featuring the roll call of the Legion of Superfluous-Heroes, itself a parody of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
	Kid Lass is in the lower-left, and her chest emblem marks her as a Saturn Girl analog.  A version of Ultra Boy is above Kid Lass.  To the right of Kid Lass is a version of Ferro.  A version of Star Boy is above the version of Ferro, and a version of Cosmic Boy is to the right.  Further right is Negative Lass, an amalgam of Triad and XS based on the costume and skin color.  A version of Gates is in the lower-right, and a version of Wildfire is above him.  Beachball Boy — a version of Chuck Taine based on the preboot Bouncing Boy — is on the right edge of the page.  The other ten characters partially depicted on the page cannot be identified.
10:1	The three leftmost characters are unidentified.  The one next to the version of Ferro appeared on page 9 between Kid Lass and the version of Ultra Boy.
10:3	“’Nuff said” is a Stan Lee-ism, from Marvel comics.
10:4	Loud Kid may be a variant of Echo, a one-time member of both the preboot Legion of Super-Heroes and the Adult Legion of Super-Villains.
10:5	The character in purple is the variant of Cosmic Boy.  The other characters partially depicted on the page cannot be identified.
10:6	The three in the lower-left are Button-Eater Lad (possibly a variant of Speedball, based on the costume), Batter-Eater Lad, and Butler-Eater Lad; all three are parodies of Tenzil Kem, known as Matter-Eater Lad in the preboot continuity.  The girl in the lower-center cannot be identified.
11:1	The two characters in the lower-right cannot be identified.
11:2	None of the Logjammers can be identified.
11:5	“Moos Attack” is a parody of the ad for the movie Mars Attacks! that appeared on the back issues of comics, among other places.  The stars were Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, and Danny DeVito.  One of the early scenes in the film is a herd of cows stampeding down the road, on fire.

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