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Has anyone picked it up? Is worth getting?

I haven't got it myself but this video gives a pretty good idea of what it's like.

I got this for Christmas (a present for myself!), and was pleased to see that it was in color, as I've gotten a few anthologies like this that were in black and white, to my displeasure!

It was a treat to see some old classic Cockrum art!

Also not very knowledgeable about the print run / history itself, it interested me to see that the Legion, in just two or three years of it's history, had bounced between Adventure Comics, Action Comics and Superboy's title. That would seem like a perfect way to bury a property today, and yet the Legion has held on!

Here are the stories included;

Table of Contents
page 6 Mission Diabolical (Adventure 374, 1968)
p 30 The King of the Legion (Adventure 375, 1968)
p 54 The Execution of Chameleon Boy (Adventure 376, 1969)
p 78 Heroes for Hire (Adventure 377, 1969)
p 102 Twelve Hours to Live (Adventure 378, 1969)
p 126 Burial in Space (Adventure 379, 1969)
p 150 The Legion's Space Oddysey (Adventure 380, 1969)
p 174 The Forbidden Fruit (Action Comics 378, 1969)
p 184 One of Us is an Imposter (Action Comics 379, 1969)
p 192 Half a Legionnaire? (Action Comics 380, 1969)
p 204 Hapless Hero (Action Comics 381, 1969)
p 216 Kill a Friend to Save a World (Action Comics 382, 1969)
p 227 Chameleon Boy's Secret Identity (Action Comics 383, 1969)
p 238 Lament for a Legionnaire (Action Comics 382, 1970)
p 249 The Fallen Starboy (Action Comics 385, 1970)
p 260 Zap Goes the Legion (Action Comics 386, 1970)
p 271 One Hero too Many (Action Comics 387, 1970)
p 281 The Mystery Legionnaire (Action Comics 389, 1970)
p 292 The Tyrant and the Traitor (Action Comics 390, 1970)
p 304 The Ordeal of Element Lad (Action Comics 391, 1970)
p 314 The Legionnaires Who Never Were (Action Comics 392, 1970)
p 326 Fashion From Fans / Diagram of Legion Headquarters Complex (Adventure Comics 403, 1971)
p 332 Brotherly Hate! (Superboy 172, 1971)
p 339 Trust Me or Kill Me (Superboy 173, 1971)
p 346 Invisible Invader (Superboy 176, 1971)
p 353 War of the Wraith-Mates (Superboy 183, 1972)
p 364 One Legionnaire Must Go! (Superboy 184, 1972)
p 372 Curse of the Blood-Crystals (Superboy 188, 1972)
p 382 Murder the Leader! (Superboy 190, 1972)
p 393 Attack of the Sun-Scavenger (Superboy 191, 1972)
p 403 War Between the Nights and Days (Superboy 193, 1973)
p 414 The One-Shot Hero (Superboy 195, 1973)
p 423 Timber Wolf: Dead Hero, Live Executioner (Superboy 197, 1973)
p 437 The Fatal Five Who Twisted Time (Superboy 198, 1973)
p 458 The Legionnaires Vs. The Sun that Mastered Men / The Impossible Target (Superboy 199, 1973)
p 479 The Legionnaire Bride of Starfinger (Superboy 200, 1974)
p 502 The Betrayer From Beyond (Superboy 201, 1974)
p 523 Lost: a Million Miles from Home (Superboy 202, 1974)
p 531 The Lore of the Legion (Superboy 202, 1974)
p 535 The Wrath of the Devil-Fish (Superboy 202, 1974)
p 549 Massacre by Remote Control (Superboy 203, 1974)

That includes a huge chunk of Legion Omnibus #3--would have been better to start with Superboy #172...

I believe the contents are plotted out so that they can go back and fill-in the "previous" volumes. So, it was either overlap with Omnibus 3 or start with Superboy #204, which would be skipping the Cockrum era.

But more than 300 pages of overlap?

Oh yet ANOTHER collection that skips over Cockrum? What gives? This is ridiculous.

Yeah, I don't really understand it. I mean... I get that the idea is that they were wanting to do something different than just start another reprint series with Adventure #247, but starting it with a volume that so heavily overlaps the most recently published Omnibus collection is a bit weird.

Though, e.g., The Flash, Green Lantern, and JLA volumes don't have anything that hasn't already been collected in the Omnibus format.

The new trades are patterned after the Marvel Epic Collection trades, which collects runs out of chronological order and tries to get to the best and/or rarest issues first.

For instance, the first Green Lantern volume covers issues 19 through 39, because that's around the time the series hit its stride in both stories and artwork.