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The only wedding that actually took place was in the All-New Collector's Edition C-55 (generally referred to as That Damned Tabloid). This was kind of an Elseworlds tale because it never happened after the result of the issues storyline. They got married "off camera" just before issue #237 of Superboy and the Legion.
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Why is referred as That Damned Tabloid? Is it hard to get? Please don't say it's one of those oversized collector's album like Superman vs. Muhammad Ali or Superman vs. Shazam...
Thanks for the info.
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I guess I didn't realize that is was an elseworld? I bought it and lost it years ago. I remember getting it though, it came in the mail the same day as Avengers 177...
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The issue involved time travel and changing history, so I wouldn't refer to it as an Elseworlds. It all happened, just not exactly as shown while it happened.
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quote:Originally posted by Varalent: It does have some great artwork though!
Funny, I think the art is horrible, a total rush job. No detail at all, heck no backgrounds in almost every panel. Look at Star Boy's costume, left open to the waist just to save time. Truly not Grell's best. I hear (or heard at the time) that the job was so late Colletta (and numerous assistants)had a few days to ink the entire thing...and it shows.
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Frankly, I thought both the story and the artwork were quite inferior. This was really a terrible story. I looked for this for maybe 20 years and finally bought a copy about 6 years ago. I found a decent copy for 1 dollar. This was by far the most difficult Legion issue to obtain - for me, anyway. (I found it by making phone calls to comic shops asking if they had it.)
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quote:Originally posted by Legion Lad: The issue involved time travel and changing history, so I wouldn't refer to it as an Elseworlds. It all happened, just not exactly as shown while it happened.
Elseworlds may have been a poor choice of words on my part but that's how I consider it. Even though it was published at least 10 years, maybe more, before DC started their Elseworlds titles.
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quote:Originally posted by Chaim Mattis Keller: A glimpse of the wedding as it occurred in continuity appeared as a flashback in LSH (Levitz series) # 45.
I'll have to go and take a look at that issue. I don't recall the wedding being shown in a flashback. Thanks for the info Chaim.
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You'd have to have an iron stomach to stomach that story. I agree with Lance. The artwork and story were both horrible. Grell tried to top Cockrum's full page wedding spread with a 2 page spread IIRC and it's absolutely awful. He even included himself and Levitz looking out of the scene and smiling dorkishly at the viewer.
Save yourself a stomach ache and stop looking for it now.
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I remember one quite good full-page spread of Projectra using her powers to show Superboy how Earth's timeline had diverged from the one he knew.
The rest of it I remember being quite substandard, with lots of panels with people who had no noses, mouths, etc.
Although there were some nicely-drawn Who's Who-style pages for the entire LSH membership in the back by (iirc) Sherman & Abel.
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My copy, by the way, is my original copy bought off the stands of a 7-11 (they always carried the Tabloids at 7-11's!) and despite my nit-picks above, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
It's in absolutely horrible condition and has ink-marks & crayon-colors where I filled in Grell's noses, eyes and mouths where there were none and attempted to correct coloring mistakes!
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