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The Legion of Super-Pets is a fictional comic book super-hero team composed entirely of animals, who sometimes came to the aid of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Of course, such a concept could only come out of the Silver Age of Comics, when Superboy and other DC Heroes were targeted towards a younger audience than today.

The Legion of Super-Pets were formed in Adventure Comics #293 (1962).

Origin

Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad of the Legion of Super-Heroes were trying to rescue Superboy from the "Brain-Globes of Rambat." These Brains could control the minds of humans but seemed afraid of Superboy's pet, Krypto. Saturn Girl deduced that the aliens could not control the minds of "super-animals." The three Legionnaires used their time bubble to gather both Superboy's and Supergirl's pets into one time era. After the "Brain-Globes" were defeated, Saturn-Girl telepathically projects the message, "We officially name you The Legion of Super-Pets...an animal branch of our super club," to the animals.

History

The Super-Pets were to appear from time to time in Legion of Super-Heroes and other Superman Family books. The founding members of the team were Krypto, the Super-Dog, Comet, the Super-Horse, Streaky, the Super-Cat, and Beppo, the Super-Monkey. All these animals had Superman-like powers and wore red capes. They were later joined by Proty II, the shape-changing pet of Superboy's fellow Legionnaire, Chameleon Boy.