Ferro Lad (Andrew Nolan) is a superhero appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th century. In Post-Zero Hour continuity, he is simply known as Ferro. Publication history Ferro Lad first appeared in Adventure Comics #346 and was created by Jim Shooter. When Jim Shooter first created the character, he intended Ferro Lad to be black, but editor Mort Weisinger vetoed the idea, saying "we'll lose our distribution in the South". This was in fact one reason why Shooter chose Ferro Lad to be the one to die in the Sun Eater story. In a 2003 interview, Shooter said: "Ferro Lad, I killed because my plan was that he was a black guy, and Mort Weisinger said no. Then I said, "Well, let's see. I've got this idea for a story, and someone needs to die...Ah-ha! Him!" So basically, I killed him off because it annoyed me that I couldn't do with him what I wanted". However, in a 2011 blog post, he had a different explanation: "I thought Mort might object if I killed an established, long-term Legionnaire, but what if it was one of the new ones I'd created? Maybe that would fly. So I did it. I didn't ask, I just did it. Why Ferro Lad? Because his powers suited the opportunity. How would Princess Projectra or even Karate Kid survive the death-run into the heart of the Sun-Eater?" Shooter made double-sure that Ferro Lad would stay dead by setting the next issue ten years in the future, in which a statue of Ferro Lad is on display in the Legion's hall of the honored dead. The Life and Death of Ferro Lad (), a hardcover trade paperback collecting the Silver Age appearances of Ferro Lad, was released in 2009. Fictional character biography Silver Age 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, so both wear iron masks. He first appears in Adventure Comics #346 (July 1966); he joined at the same time as Princess Projectra, Karate Kid and Nemesis Kid. Ferro Lad was only a Legionnaire for a short time when he was killed destroying the Sun-Eater with a bomb in Adventure Comics