High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lightning Lad (Garth Ranzz), also known as Live Wire, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the DC Comics Universe. He has the superhuman ability to generate electricity, usually in the form of lightning bolts. He is a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. He first appeared in Adventure Comics #247 (April 1958) under his original codename Lightning Boy.