Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Out now: Legion of Super-Heroes Ongoing in German!

Panini Comics just started publishing the Legion as an ongoing Trade Paperback series. Issue #1 is featuring LSH (2010) ##1-6 - the Earth Man story.

Oh wow - why is this newsworthy? It is because for the first time in history, Germans are actually publishing an ongoing series that is called "Legion of Super-Heroes". In over 50 years of the Legion, they did translate a whole lot of stuff - mainly in the 70s and early 80s, just right until the Levitz run started (that one was never translated until today except for #300 and Annual #1) - but it was never a systematic run. Rather they published #250 in the Superboy book, Earthwar as a pocket book edition and Secrets of the Legion as a special edition - just to leave out many other issues (except for Reflecto, we did get the whole Reflecto stoy...).

No Legion was published at all after the lone #300 (another special edition) - no Great Darkness, no Conspiracy, no 5YL, no Reboot - until 2003 when Panini did a "The Legion" monster edition featuring The Legion #1-14 - followed by a translation of the first Legion Archive (Why?). Then, no more Reboot and no Threeboot as well - the Monster edition seems to have failed... Recently, things like the Lightning Saga, the Action Comics story and L3W got their treat in some further Superman special editions.

But now, an ongoing LEGION? Is it really true? Bought it right away to support the Legion even though I already have it in English. They did a decent job though I felt it might be a little confusing to new readers as there was hardly an introduction to all the characters. Issue #2 is going to be out in December, here's hoping for more

Don't know how to upload a picture here, so here's a link to the Amazon page: http://www.amazon.de/Legion-Super-H..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348592141&sr=8-1

Don't know if I can find out how many they are selling but I'll try... first reactions on the Panini Forum were quite positive, so let's hope for the best

Very cool, CK. Hope it continues.

That actually sounds super-cool. Earthwar is my absolute #1 storyline that I wish would get collected in the States.

Ouch.

Congrats!

Neat piece of info direct from the source. Thanks, CK! That's great.

Thought I'd add some news from Germany. Funny as it is, whole the book is going to be canceled in the US, it actually seems to be turning into an "ongoing" over here, with TPB #3 out last month and #4 announced for August.

Moreover, for any AR collectors, a piece to hunt down might be the limited hardcover edition of the Legion/Star Trek crossover. Only 222 pieces out there, folks http://www.amazon.de/Legion-Super-Exemplare-limitiertes-Hardcover/dp/B00CBVXKZ8/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

Found out that there are true Legion Fans in the Panini team which is the sole reason why our rather obscure favorite comic book is getting this kind of unprecedented attention. Hope they won't have to pull the plug after #4 which would be the end of the 2011 regular series...

... and by the way, re-reading the stories in German still does not hurt them at all - I rather like most of it, with the first three Jiminez Adventure issues being an absolute favorite.

And I am certain that the book would have done way better with Jiminez style artwork on a regular basis. Part of the success of Levitz famous run in the 80s was constant artwork. You change your artist every six month and throw in further fill in art, you are bound to get into trouble...