Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Bits o' Legionnaire Business Sketches from Archive Edition #1

Ladies and gentlemen,
The not very interesting...
MARLA LATHAM!

Finally! Supergirl meets some supergirlfriends! Girls who she can relate to. Girls who she has SO much in common! Girls who never appear in the issue again, after their initial meeting.

How much for one of those labor androids?

lil'rhino

You have such an amazing talent for catching the essence of the minor characters, Dean! Your Lester is fantastic!

...and Marla really has that "old super-hero" mentor look that someone (I believe it's Reep) always says should have been his back story.

Good Lord!

I wanna lick that "I'm better than you" smug expression off Lester's face! Hot stuff!!!

Hee! Well, the Inventor Androids are worth millions, that's the only comparison I can go by.

You are very generous to give me that particular compliment. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, why should Jo Nah be the first person to ever be swallowed by an Energy Beast? Maybe it happened to Marla, a long time ago!

It's funny how doing a drawing of a character like Marla makes me more interested in them overall. Now I want to go back and look up how much has been done with him. Who is he really, etc. Hey, maybe I'll even start a topic about him.....

(Thanks, EDE!)

I've got another one, still to scan. It's very similar, but he looks even smugger. (Is that a word?)

Thanks, Lash!

I can't wait for you to get to Archive #2! I want to see your rendition of the Legion of Super-Monsters!

Oh no you don't, Lash. Get your internet hands off my man.

Dean, thank you for the fab picture of my sweet baby Lester. It shows his rotten personality rawther well. (The finish of his ship in the background is nice too.) Please post your other drawing - more is Lester.

Hi Teeds! Just want to let you know that whenever you post on the Mission Monitor Board section of Legion World, I will come to your house and do yard work or shovel snow (depending on where you live)! The same deal went for Pov and Lash, and they've already cashed in!

Welcome back, we missed you!

Great work, Dean. You managed to cature the feel of those old comics without looking dated.

Thanks for these replies! This has been a really fun project for me. When you take the time to look, there are some VERY interesting characters in those early Legion stories. Lester cracks me up! Yeah, more to come still...

Tish-Posh!

There's more than enough of that beautiful smug bastard and his equally beautiful credits for BOTH of us!

hey dean,

more please!

Yes, more!!

lil'rhino

More are coming! I just need to open the book and get proper issue #s and names. I mean, I don't want a lot of vague drawings posted here!

Okay, I'm up to Adventure Comics #301, "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy." I already posted my sketch of Lester, so I got a tad out of order there (guess I was excited to share that with all you Spiffany fans....).

When we got a look at the monitor screens, we met a Giant on the planet Grykk and a Lead Monster on the planet Ferno...

Out you phony!

Get Lost!

We don't want your ilk in our club!

People just don't use the word ilk anymore...

Here's Storm Boy!
(nice glasses...)

Finally, the Robot Gladiators!

Lots of fun stuff in Adventure #302!

Here we see some bugs given to the Legion by a guest entomologist, Professor Harding. On the left is the firefly I dubbed the Harding Firefly and on the right is the Winged Wampus and a victim. They come from "various planets." Below, we see some animals Sun Boy encountered on the planet Lurna, famed for it's fantastic creatures. On the left, the Radiation Blast, which I'm sure was supposed to be Radiation Beast, but was misspelled, and on the right, the Hypno-Beast....

And here it is, the reason for Sun Boy's trip to Lurna, the Kryptonian Flame Beast!