Wandered across this list of the top 10 lamest superheroes ever.
At Number 7 they have what I would have put at No. 1 — Matter Eater Lad. Matter Eater Lad can eat anything. The choice detail the Pop Culture Addict leaves out is that whoever created this abomination added the detail that he was from the planet Bismoll (ugh).
Of all the lame members that DC created for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Matter Eater Lad is definitely the worst. But everyone has a bad day — even the best comics contain a few bad ideas here and there.
What made matters worse was that Matter Eater Lad was a part of the LSH for almost 11 years (from 1963 to 1974), though his unique abilities meant he wasn’t actually in the stories very often.
Finally they wrote him out of the book and sent him off to political office on Bismoll.