From: danw@sierra.com (Dan Williams - Contractor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: When was the destruction of Daxam?
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:47:06 GMT
Organization: Sierra Geophysics Inc.,  Kirkland, Wa

Text:  The definitive autobiography of Lar Gand.

----Universe 1------

One day a young Superman (superboy) found a rocket with an unconcious lad
in it.  A note indicated the lad was Superboy's elder brother.  As the lad
had no memory  and he was found on a Monday, Kal-El (Superboy) named him
Mon-El.  
	Later Kal-El learns Mon-El is not from Krypton but a space traveler
from Daxam whose native have simular powers but are killed by Lead
poisoning, not kryponite.  Mon-El is sent to the phantom zone for a
thousand years while Superboy and later the Legion of Super Heroes try to
cure the lead poisoning suffered by Mon-El.  Once they succeed, Mon-El
joins the Legion and becomes a hero.  Durring this time a decendant of his,
Eltro Gand takes Mon-El's place durring a battle Mon-El was fated to die
in.  When Eltro finishes the battle and returns to where he hid Mon-El he
finds he has placed Mon-El next to a outcropping of Lead and Mon-El is
dead.  In grief Eltro uses a machine to take his life to revitalize
Mon-El's. Mon-El is returned to health.

----Then came Crisis-----

Superboy was no longer a young Superman.  Superboy was constructed by a
supreamely powerful villian named the Time Trapper to act as inspiration
for the Legion of Super-Heroes.  The Legion was required to block the rize
of magic in the 30th century and to defeat Mordru the Merciless.  Superboy
lived on a Earth in a pocket universe created by the Trapper, and died
protecting his world from destruction by the Trapper.

Mon-El and 3 Legion members and a Green Lantern formed a conspiracy to kill
the Time Trapper to avenge the death of Superboy.  They traveled to the End
of Time and succeeded in destroying the Time Trapper, but Mon-El was Fataly
wounded, and died soon after. 

----Then the LSH version 3 book came to an end---
----Then came LSH version 4.

Five years later the Legion has disbanded and is starting to regroup, when
a grave on the planet Shanghala explodes and Mon-El returns.  The Time
Trapper has projected a piece of his essence into Mon-El and kept him alive
but in a healing trance for five years while they both grow in strength.
Mon-El's soul contains 3 essences.  Elto Gand who was projected into
Mon-El's mind long ago and went mad.  This madness has weakened Mon-El
mentaly for years, allowing an entry by the Time Trapper.  Mon-El's soul is
growing in strength again after his long rest and rejects the Trapper and
his plan to use Mon-El's body as a host for his own dreams of conquest.
	In a battle at the end of Time, the Trapper decides to face Mon-El
physicly to beat him into submission.  But Mon-El is too strong and the
Trapper has over extended himself.  The Trapper reveles that if Mon-El
kills him then all the Trappers manipulations in the universe will fade
away and Mon-El and his reality will no longer exist.  Monel has faith that
something good will come of this and destroys the Trapper.

----The old Universe fades to white----Open in the Mordruverse----

Mordru has ruled the Universe for 17 years.  Only he is powerful enough to
remember the previous reality and he lets tales slip of a time that never
was.  Some people gain hope from these tales and steal knowledge of a spell
to recreate the time that never was from Mordru while he sleeps.  Mordru's
First wife Glorith casts the spell and gains the powers of the Time
Trapper.  As she recreates the events to reform the Legion, the Mordruverse
fades to white.

----The retcon Universe-----

Superboy has never existed.  Mon-El was never named Mon-El.  He is Lar Gand
from Daxam and was named Valor in his youth.  
	In the 20th century Valor became a hero in his youth, because of his father
who died to save Earth from the Dominators.  Valor settled many of the
worlds seen in the 30th century with meta-gene positive subjects he rescued
from the Dominators.  Glorith desired Valor as a consort and when he
refused her she cast him into the Btzl buffer zone for a thousand years
untill he was freed by the Legion of Super-Heroes who had formed inspired
by his legend from the 20th century.  In this reality Valor is revered as a
living god by many.  His legend has replaced the legend of Superboy.
Glorith destroyed Daxam to prevent the Daxamites from ever challaging her
and arrising like they did in the great darkness story.  Valor and the
conspiracy goes on but for different reasons.  Valor is gravely wounded but
heals with the support of his wife Tasmia Mallor Gand, (Shadow lass).  The
battle removes the Eltro Gand personality from him also.  Valor now travels
the Universe exploring with his wife, much as the New Valor comic shows him
doing now. 
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