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I want to add an entry to one man industrial revolution. I remember once glancing through a comic where there's a montage of scenes where a character, who evidently has been absent for a year, explains how he was trapped on a planet of cave aliens that look like apes and he had to guide the natives from the Stone Age to launching a rocket for him to escape. I distinctly remember one panel has him standing among mission control of these "primitives" as they test rockets. I think he says it took him a year because he had to start from scratch. I believe it was an issue of Legion of Superheroes, so it might have been brainiac, but I don't recall him being green. I may be wrong. Can anyone help tell me what comic it was? I think it was as old as the '80s..