18 Facts About Cosmic Boy

1.

Cosmic Boy is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics Universe.

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2.

Cosmic Boy is a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, along with Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, and he has the superhuman ability to generate magnetic fields.

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3.

Cosmic Boy is one of the few Legionnaires ever to have his own miniseries, which ran for four issues in the mid-1980s as a spin-off of the Legends cross-over.

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4.

The former Cosmic Boy continued to serve with honor during the adult Legion's tour of duty, proving that he needed no powers to be a hero.

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5.

Cosmic Boy took on the codename Polestar, only to renounce the power gauntlets after they began to affect his mind.

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6.

Cosmic Boy sent most of his earnings to his family, unaware that his manager, Alex Cuspin, was embezzling them instead.

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7.

Cosmic Boy then joins a superhero team from the 41st century, who come back in time to offer him membership.

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8.

Cosmic Boy is like the all-around leader who puts it all on his shoulders, but he's magnetic.

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9.

Cosmic Boy's powers are all about magnetics, and so it carries over to his personality.

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10.

Cosmic Boy was featured in a four-part limited series, cover dated December 1986 through March 1987.

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11.

Cosmic Boy magnetically catches the payload and sends the debris harmlessly toward the ocean, but American soldiers assume that he is a foreign spy.

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12.

Cosmic Boy uses his power to warp the hourglass, closing it so that the last grain will never fall.

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13.

Cosmic Boy warns the couple that this will be their final journey through time, and that "the next occasion when a Legionnaire dares break the time barrier will be the last".

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14.

Cosmic Boy finds this quite satisfying, as he looks at a pair of statues of Superboy and his dog Krypto.

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15.

Cosmic Boy has been known to pull large iron meteors and satellites down from space with minimal effort.

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16.

Cosmic Boy's control is such that he can manipulate electronic records or the iron in blood.

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17.

Cosmic Boy has been known to use a uniform with ferrous fibres so he can fly with his own powers, but usually relies on a Legion flight ring.

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18.

Cosmic Boy returned to a close variation on the original costume a few years later.

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