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Ferro Lad
Ferro Lad (Andrew Nolan) is a superhero appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. In post-Zero Hour continuity, he is simply known as Ferro.
Ferro Lad was initially a short-lived member of the Legion; he was introduced in Adventure Comics #346 (1966) and killed during the storyline "The Death of Ferro Lad" (1967). Decades after Ferro Lad's death, a clone of him was introduced in 1991 as part of "Batch SW6", a group of temporal clones of the Legionnaires. In 1994, following the Zero Hour reboot, the Legion's continuity was rebooted and the original Ferro Lad resurrected.
Ferro Lad has made minor appearances in other media, primarily those featuring the Legion. He is voiced by Dave Wittenberg in the animated series Legion of Super Heroes (2006).
Ferro Lad first appeared in Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966) and was created by Jim Shooter. Shooter intended Ferro Lad to be black, but editor Mort Weisinger vetoed the idea, saying "we'll lose our distribution in the South".
In a 2003 interview, Shooter said that he killed Ferro Lad out of annoyance towards being unable to make him black. In a 2011 blog post, Shooter offered a different explanation: that Ferro Lad's powers enabled him to survive entering the Sun-Eater's core.
The Life and Death of Ferro Lad (ISBN 978-1-4012-2193-5), a hardcover trade paperback collecting Ferro Lad's Silver Age appearances, was released in 2009.
Andrew Nolan is a metahuman with the power to transform himself into living iron. He has a twin brother named Douglas who has the same power. Both twins have deformed faces as a side effect of the mutation that gave them their powers, which they hide with iron masks.
Ferro Lad is only a Legionnaire for a short time before sacrificing himself to destroy the alien Sun-Eater with a bomb. His self-sacrifice to save the galaxy made him legendary, despite his short tenure as a Legionnaire. Many later Silver Age stories include references to his death, and a statue erected in his memory is often seen in the Legion's headquarters.
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Ferro Lad
Ferro Lad (Andrew Nolan) is a superhero appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. In post-Zero Hour continuity, he is simply known as Ferro.
Ferro Lad was initially a short-lived member of the Legion; he was introduced in Adventure Comics #346 (1966) and killed during the storyline "The Death of Ferro Lad" (1967). Decades after Ferro Lad's death, a clone of him was introduced in 1991 as part of "Batch SW6", a group of temporal clones of the Legionnaires. In 1994, following the Zero Hour reboot, the Legion's continuity was rebooted and the original Ferro Lad resurrected.
Ferro Lad has made minor appearances in other media, primarily those featuring the Legion. He is voiced by Dave Wittenberg in the animated series Legion of Super Heroes (2006).
Ferro Lad first appeared in Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966) and was created by Jim Shooter. Shooter intended Ferro Lad to be black, but editor Mort Weisinger vetoed the idea, saying "we'll lose our distribution in the South".
In a 2003 interview, Shooter said that he killed Ferro Lad out of annoyance towards being unable to make him black. In a 2011 blog post, Shooter offered a different explanation: that Ferro Lad's powers enabled him to survive entering the Sun-Eater's core.
The Life and Death of Ferro Lad (ISBN 978-1-4012-2193-5), a hardcover trade paperback collecting Ferro Lad's Silver Age appearances, was released in 2009.
Andrew Nolan is a metahuman with the power to transform himself into living iron. He has a twin brother named Douglas who has the same power. Both twins have deformed faces as a side effect of the mutation that gave them their powers, which they hide with iron masks.
Ferro Lad is only a Legionnaire for a short time before sacrificing himself to destroy the alien Sun-Eater with a bomb. His self-sacrifice to save the galaxy made him legendary, despite his short tenure as a Legionnaire. Many later Silver Age stories include references to his death, and a statue erected in his memory is often seen in the Legion's headquarters.