Adventure Comics 1938 #311 - reader copy - $7.00

The Legion of Substitute-Heroes tries to fill in for the Legion, but the Legion tells the Subs to disband.

The Substitutes realize the Legion has been replaced by aliens, chase the aliens away, and save the real Legion.

Casey rescues a little boy and takes him for ice cream.

On-sale date from copyright registration.

• - Inside front cover.
• [Part I] The War Between the Substitute Heroes and the Legionnaires! - Legion of Substitute Heroes stars.
• - Letters from Tommy Tryon, Todd Walters, Steven J. Gerstein, Caroline Dove, and excerpts from other letters including reader suggestions for new Legionnaires include Evolvo Lad. Readers point to the existence of Lightning Man in stories of the adult Legion as proof that Lightning Lad's death can't be permanent, editors admit that he'll be restored in the following issue at the cost of another member's life.
• Smallville's War Against Superbaby! - "An Untold Tale of Superboy When He Was a Superbaby!"
• - Inside back cover.
• - Back cover.