Sun Boy

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Sun Boy is a male comic superhero who features in DC Comics.

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Biography

Pre-Crisis

Sun Boy in Adventure Comics v1 #302.

Dirk Morgna was a male human who was born in the 30th century as the son of Derek Morgna. Whilst at school, his father was in charge of an atomic plant with Dirk and his friend Zarl Hedricks working at the facility. Among the staff at the site was one of his father's top scientists being Dr. Zaxton Regulus who was conducing secret experiments in sun-energy. During a delivery of items, Dirk and Zarl entered Regulus's laboratory when an accident occurred that killed Hedricks with Morgna slightly injured. Upon learning of this, Derek Morgna had Regulus fired with Zaxton blaming the incident on Dirk and Zarl's interference. He later took his revenge on the Morgna's by using robots to capture them at the atomic plant with Dirk left to die in an atomic reactor. However, the exposure simply transformed Morgna who gained the power to control the traits of a sun leading to him taking the name Sun Boy. (Adventure Comics v1 #348)

He was noted to had been responsible for capturing a notorious criminal by the name of Kranyak leading to the villains long sentence to prison. (Adventure Comics v1 #302)

During this time, word of Sun Boy losing his powers was heard even in prison with Kranyak learning of this and intending to use this as an opportunity get his revenge against the hero. Using a smuggled Wonder Pill, he managed to escape the prison by changing into a gaseous state where he reunited with the rest of his criminal cohorts. The next day, Sun Boy was attacked by Kranyak who decided against killing Dirk and instead wanted to punish him more severely by targeting his former team-mates in the Legion. This saw Morgna warn the Legion but despite this he felt the need to help his comrades and became desperate in regaining his former powers. (Adventure Comics v1 #302)

Sun Boy and the Legion were set to have their annual vote to elect a new leader, and Saturn Girl was the first to arrive at the Clubhouse. A crystal capsule sent from the Trylop Council of Mernl dropped from the sky warning that their computers predicted a Legionnaire would die using their powers during an upcoming invasion of Earth by Zaryan the Conqueror, and Saturn Girl resolved to sacrifice herself to protect her fellow Legionnaires. She used her thought control to nudge the Legion into electing her leader, then used a rainbow bar from their treasury to make medallions with her face printed on them, and demanded every Legionnaire wear one. She demanded the Legionnaires demonstrate effective use of their powers, and was able to temporarily duplicate each member of the Legion’s powers using the medallions they wore, and proceeded to forbid them for using their powers or going on missions during a probation period because she declared they were not using their powers properly. When Zaryan began his invasion of Earth she responded, and warned the other Legionnaires not to follow her because they were on probation. The Legion thought she’d gone mad with power, but Mon-El had observed her actions from the Phantom Zone, and knew her motivations. Sunspots interfered with him communicating with the Legion, but when they lifted he filled in Lightning Lad on the situation, and he flew into space, determined to keep Saturn Girl from sacrificing herself. He blew up Zaryan’s ship with his powers, but was fatally shot with a freeze-ray. The Legion honored him by placing him in a glass coffin with lightning generated over it by a perpetual motion device, and his funeral was attended by Superboy, Supergirl and Lori Lemaris. The Legion placed a statue of Lightning Lad in their Clubhouse as a tribute to the first Legionnaire killed in action. (Adventure Comics v1 #304)

The Legion still mourned Lightning Lad, but had to fill the spot his passing left on the roster, so they held an open audition. Antennae Boy of Grxyor could use his ears as an antennae to tune into any radio station from Earth’s past present or future, but the screeching sound of radio programs blaring over each other drove the Legion nuts, and he admitted he couldn’t control his powers. Dynamo Kid was a reporter hoping to do a story on the Legion, and rigged a device to make it appear as if he had the same powers as Lightning Lad, but the Legion easily saw through his ruse. Marvel Lad demonstrated several of the same powers as Superboy, making the team suspicious. A metal-detector revealed he wasn’t a robot, and he proved he wasn’t Superboy in disguise by handling a piece of Kryptonite kept in the Legion Clubhouse. Cosmic Boy decided to give Marvel Lad a number of initiation tests before letting him on the team. He had Marvel Lad retrieve fluvium, which Brainiac 5 needed for his lead-poisoning antidotes he was developing to cure Mon-El, and Marvel quickly brought some back from a distant galaxy. For his next test fought a feeding Sun-Eater, a being that roamed the galaxy absorbing the heat and energy of suns, and made it flee by blasting it with his heat-vision, which was hotter than a sun. Marvel was told to clear the planet Brogg of space monsters so it would be safe to use as an emergency landing spot for space pilots. The monsters turned out to be illusions created by a 3-D generator. Marvel smashed it and found stolen treasure underneath it, realizing the charade was created by space pirates looking to protect their booty. For his final test Marvel Lad had to create a new element, and by crushing gold, silver and iron into powder and rubbing his hands at superspeed to vibrate the molecules of the three elements he formed a bar of element 152, an anti-gravity metal. Marvel Lad was accepted into the Legion, and pulled off the mask he wore, revealing himself as Mon-El. The day before Brainiac 5 had him test his latest antidote, but told him to wait a day to make sure its’ effects were permanent before revealing himself to the Legion, not wanting to get their hopes up as they had before when Brainiac came up with a cure that turned out to be temporary. Mon-El took one last trip to the Phantom Zone to tell off the Kryptonian criminals who’d tormented him for centuries, and reminded them that good always triumphed over evil. Mon-El was overjoyed that Brainiac had finally cured him, but his spirits were dampened by the passing of Lightning Lad, and vowed to find a way to revive him using Daxamite super-science. (Adventure Comics v1 #305)

Reboot

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Exposure to an atomic reactor's radiation imparted on him he power of a sun. (Adventure Comics v1 #348)

Notes

  • Sun Boy was created by Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney where he made his first appearance in Action Comics v1 #276 (May, 1961).

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

  • In Legion of Super Heroes, Sun Boy appeared in the setting of the 2006 animated television series.

Appearances

  • Action Comics v1: (1961)
  • Adventure Comics v1:
  • Legion of Super-Heroes v1:

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