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Recently, I came across a series of Legion of Super-Heroes Hard Enamel Pins from the 1990's and started thinking how great it would be if there were a new set of pins or merchandise created in 2022 of the current Legion using updated poses and uniforms. For reference, here is a list of some of the characters that were available from that Legion Pin set. Legion of Superheroes Pin Set

That leads me to the point of this post, If you had a favorite piece of artwork of either individual characters or LSH group images that could be made into an pin or other merchandise as a Legion collectible, what do you think would work nicely? Would your preference be individual members made into a complete series or a group setting? What LSH artwork and artist was your favorite? When was the best artwork produced in the run? Please post images of what your favorite art choices would be. Additionally, the images could be either very elaborate or just simple images. Also, any ideas on any other products that members would like to see manufactured could also be very interesting. It would be awesome to see what Legion fans believe was the greatest era in the LSH series.

Fansets was creating them in 2022, but just recently lost (like a week or so ago) the DC Comics license. All of their inventory of DC related items were transferred over to their Etsy store.

If you were ever interested in getting your own Fanset pins of the Legion, I suggest going there and purchasing them as they will not be making more and only the existing supplies are being sold off. The site listed in the op is missing Lightning Lad v2, Chemical King, Blok, Light Lass, Emerald Empress, Mano, Superman/boy and various Supergirls.

The whole thing is weird as the most sought after San Diego Comic-Con WB bags were the ones from the year that the pins were included in the bags. People were desperately trying to collect each of the pins. DC is really running themselves into the ground and losing the sense of fun and wonder that made them so great for decades. We got screwed out of completing the Legion, the Fatal Five, Infinity Inc., etc.

Thanks for the info and the links.

Did you mean to say "missing" or "listing" because I found most of those you mention on the first page.

Thank you for the info. Great info!

These are so cool! RIP to my bank account lol

Missing from this link in the OP - http://www.thelegionofsuper-heroes.com/Pins.html

Yeah. I have over $500 worth of pins I still want in my "Saved Later" Cart.

these look great, thanks for sharing! sad to see they are losing their DC license though

As a Legion collector and ocd-ish completist (though admittedly only "formerly avid", mainly as there has been little product lately, but apparently that has lead to unwarranted hubris that i wouldn't miss anything), I am shocked, excited and dismayed all at the same time that I completely missed these, big thanks to Cham and Nightcrawler for pointing them out.

Alas, however, I appear to have seen this just barely too late - I suspect the DC license removal expired end of July, as I have just now checked out https://fansets.com/ myself, and I cannot find ANY DC pins listed.

Am I just missing it? can someone who saw the Legion pins there earlier check again?

Looks like this could turn into an "ebay" adventure...
... and if that is the case - does anyone have a complete list? Or perhaps I can infer the complete list as everything shown in Legion of Super-heroes Pin Set plus the ones Nightcrawler listed as missing above?

Thanks to all in advance for any help given.

They were on this link Nighty put up.

Just checked and still some Legion pins here amongst the other DC characters.

boy , that's a big "FAIL" on my reading comprehension skills..... thanks for having my back, Thoth Lad !!! (and thanks to Nightcrawler for posting the Etsy store link in the first place, sorry I didn't read carefully enough. )

The two lists (Etsy store and Legion of Super Heroes Pin Set) .. from Cham ) have a lot of non-overlapping items, the union so far (restricting to LSH) appears to be the ENTIRE LEGION prior to the Giffen run (so up to Blok, but no White Witch or Jacques or later), unless I am forgetting someone?

Lightning Lad (2 versions), Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Phantom Girl, Duo Damsel (alone or as a two-pack?), Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Shrinking Violet, Braniac 5, Superboy, Supergirl, Star boy, Sun boy, Ultra boy, Mon-el, Bouncing Boy, Matter-Eater Lad, Light Lass, Element Lad, Ferro Lad, Princess Projectra, Karate Kid, Dream Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf, Chemical King, Wildfire, Tyroc, Dawnstar, and Blok.

non-member characters: Emerald Empress, Mano, Legion Symbol;

That's 35 different ones (counting the two versions of LL, but not counting single vs. double Duo Damsel - they look the same other than 2 vs,. 1)

I suspect there might be more, though, given the list is everything whoever made Cham's list happened to know about, + everything Fansets' Etsy has left... good chance some are missing.
But the list of member seems like a logical cutoff (Bronze age, basically...)

Thanks, Stile86. Per message above, I was just being stupid and had checked the Fansets link instead of the Etsy.

UPDATE: I think the etsy link actually has ALL of them... at least that we know of.

My original search there was on "Legion", but several of them randomly left that word out of their description (LL v2, Timber Wolf, Shadow Lass), which I was able to find when i typed in their individual names.

ANYWAY, I just was able to snag one of each(!) - and I think they still have plenty more. The only item that warned it was running low was the Legion symbol.
The total comes out right around $300 with tax, though - but it's 35 pins.

I searched for other members of the Fatal five and other obvious villains (Mordru, Universo, time trapper), but none came up, nor did white witch or polar boy. so, I GUESS that was all they made...

ANYWAY - on big final thank-you to Cham(!!!) for starting this thread - My Legion collection remains complete thanks to you (and I hadn't had that "collector's thrill" in a Looong while, so nice to snag these! )

I didn't see the other DC ones at first, I have got three or four rounds worth of buying to do I think

Just to make this easier for everyone and not derail this thread any further than it's original intention...Here's a new thread on the Fansets topic. There's a complete list with links to buy each item (not my store/while supplies last).

Good point by Nightcrawler that "we" have lost sight of the original question posed by Cham which I quote above ... a lot of that was me, sorry about that!

So to address Cham's query - my "dream" merch would be a copy of superman's silver age Legion statuettes. or action figures to enable such.
And an updated Baxter era one would be cool too! It has always bugged me that the action figure stopped and Saturn Girl was the only female Legionnaire ever produced

In general, I think for pins or other similar objects, I'd want individual members, but i do like group shots - not sure what merch you can do with group shorts other than t-shirts, though.
As for favorite artists from whom to gleen inspiration or license images:

#1) To me, I think by far the best art was by Dave Cockrum - he first brought in a realistic and epic style, and interestingly for the most part he created enough dstinctions with haristyles, etc. that you can even tell a legionnaire by just their headshots.
Although already done, these slurpee cup images are classic images from a an "origins and powers" supplement he had done.
(Cockrum also shares some of the blame for 70's "bondage wear" style, but notably the over-the-top stuff was mostly not his, pink bikini being from a fan prior to Cockrums' run, and pantsless Colossal Boy + barely-clothed Cosmic Boy belong to Grell).

#2) artwise, I really enjoyed Jeff Moy, even though not necessarily my favorite era story-wise. a good summary of his work is on this great page , and he also did a good job with distinctive headshots

#3) Jim Sherman - inexplicably over-shadowed by his predecessor Mike Grell, Jim Sherman was the artist during the period i become "hooked" on the Legion, and I am 2nd guessing putting him after Moy. Great example here , and he also did a classic "origins and powers" list \at the end of the infamously hard to obtain C55 taboid
(I got it for Xmas the year it came out!). And let's not forget the infinite man, and other artwork from that issue

#4) Steve Lightle - mainly only a cover artist form the early V3 Baxter era, but those were some great covers., Good luck making a pin from a cover though! This Dr Regulus cover is one of his best, but i think he really excelled at epic-scope sci-fi action landscapes, like this one

#5) Classic Curt Swan - "'nuff said", as Stan Lee would say. good summary of his work here, including first-ever legion appearance, and in particular the panel of legionnaires in the background
of this classic cover was used on the letter page for many years.

Honorable mentions: John Forte (main Pre-Swan Silver Age artist - not great on actiom/movement, but great facial expressions, and good classic sci-fi creativity) and Greg LaRocque (late V3 Baxter - sorry i'm getting tired - Google him )

those are my favorites who come to mind - might be forgetting someone..

For Pins also - I'd love to see Legion from the animated series, or from there renditions in this one Justice League United episode

Wouldn't mind the current version either.

Thank you for bringing the thread back on subject. I was really curious what long time fans believed was the best runs in Legion art and what they would love to see as their "dream" merchandise.. Personally, I really like the idea of the Legion statuettes being replicated either as a statue and/or detailed enamel pins reflecting the many eras of the LOSH. They would be an excellent addition to any Legion collection.

Nice options! I thought about possible merchandise stuff as well, but unfortunately when it comes to "What Legion merchandise would you buy if you had the chance?" the correct answer is "Yes" :-)


We could've seen pantsless costumes with Cockrum as well... X-Men's Colossus, anyone? :-)

So all this time, POV was pantsless as a living tribute to Cockrum?!