Bronze-Age version of Star Boy on the cover of Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2, #306 (December 1983), art by Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt.
Star Boy is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, a group of young heroes living a millennium in the future.[3] He is born to astronomer parents on a satellite orbiting the planet Xanthu, and can temporarily increase the mass of an object, up to the mass of a star.[4]
Star Boy is expelled from the Legion for killing his girlfriend Dream Girl's ex-boyfriend Kenz Nuhor in self-defense. After this, he and Dream Girl join the Legion of Substitute Heroes before returning to the Legion.[5]
Following Zero Hour: Crisis in Time!, which reboots the Legion's continuity, Thom Kallor discovers that he is destined to travel back to the 21st century, assume the mantle of Starman, and die.
2005 reboot
Kallor in the Legion's 2005 reboot, art by Barry Kitson.
Mark Waid's 2005 Legion reboot depicts Star Boy as black and Cosmic Boy's right-hand man.[6]
In The New 52 continuity reboot, Thom Kallor is killed in an attack by the Fatal Five before being resurrected.[9][10] In Doomsday Clock, Doctor Manhattan erases Kallor and the Legion from existence before eventually restoring them.[11][12]
Powers and abilities
Star Boy can temporarily increase the mass and density of any object or person. The version of Thom working with the Justice Society of America can travel between universes using a combination of his mass-controlling powers and his uniform, a map of the multiverse created by Brainiac 5.[13]
As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Thom has a Legion Flight Ring, which enables him to fly and survive in space and other dangerous environments.
Thomas Kallor / Star Boy, based on the post-Infinite Crisis incarnation, appears in Justice League vs. the Fatal Five, voiced by Elyes Gabel.[15][14] This version suffers from a form of schizophrenia and takes medication despite it no longer working. After accidentally traveling back in time to the 21st century while trying to stop the Fatal Five, Kallor loses his medication and most of his memories and is incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. However, he escapes after seeing the Fatal Five on the news, which triggers some of his memories. He later encounters the Justice League and Jessica Cruz and befriends the latter before sacrificing himself to stop Emerald Empress from destroying the sun.[16][17][18]
Thom Kallor as Star Boy appears in the one-shot comic Batman '66 Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes.[20]
References
^Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Korte, Steve; Manning, Matt; Wiacek, Win; Wilson, Sven (2016). The DC Comics Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Characters of the DC Universe. DK Publishing. p. 281. ISBN978-1-4654-5357-0.
^Greenberger, Robert; Pasko, Martin (2010). The Essential Superman Encyclopedia. Del Rey. pp. 371–373. ISBN978-0-345-50108-0.
^Justice Society of America (vol. 4) #10 (September 2024)
^Justice Society of America vol. 3, #22 (February 2009)
^ ab"Star Boy Voices (Legion of Super Heroes)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved October 22, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
