Silver Age Garth Ranzz

lightning lad s origin.

lightning lad founding member of legion of super-heroes along saturn girl , cosmic boy. born on planet winath, twin brother of fellow legionnaire ayla ranzz (lightning lass), younger brother of supervillain mekt ranzz (lightning lord), , father of 2 sets of twins; sons garridan (validus) , graym ranzz , daughters dacey , dorrit ranzz.

early in legion s history, sacrificed himself battling zaryan conqueror, later resurrected sacrifice of proty, chameleon boy s shapeshifting pet. however, later retcon revealed proty s mind had taken on lightning lad s form.

an incident against monster dubbed super moby dick of space resulted in loss of lightning lad s right arm, replaced bionic appendage. had arm regrown, in interim criminal scientist used situation hypnotize lightning lad acting super criminal starfinger used bionic arm weapon. after great darkness saga, son abducted darkseid , subsequently transformed monster validus.

during 5 year gap following magic wars, earth fell under covert control of dominators, , withdrew united planets. few years later, members of dominators highly classified batch sw6 escaped captivity. originally, batch sw6 appeared group of teenage legionnaire clones, created samples apparently taken prior ferro lad s death @ hands of sun-eater. later, revealed time-paradox duplicates, every bit legitimate older counterparts. after earth destroyed in disaster reminiscent of destruction of krypton on millennium earlier, few dozen surviving cities , inhabitants reconstituted world new earth. sw6 legionnaires remained, , version of lightning lad assumed code name live wire. unlike adult garth, did not possess proty s mind or personality. thus, teenage live wire far more reckless , rebellious previous depiction of garth.