Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly Legion Trivia 4

Normally, of course, the Legion has been shown to be based on earth. However, in one pre-Adventures-era story, they were apparently headquartered on another familiar Legion world. What world was this?

I don't know but I'm dying to find out!

Xanthu?

Saturn/Titan?

Xanthu is the correct answer, from the story where the evil duplicate of Sun Boy shows up asking Superboy to rebuild the giant robot the Legion hid in the past. At the end, the brief scene in the 30th century is stated to be on Xanthu. To be fair, though the Legion is still sitting around with namecards in front of them, it looks quite different than their HQ normally does, so maybe for some reason they were just hanging out on Xanthu that day for some reason.

New Q soon.

What specific and deliberate editorial change can one find in later 1960s reprints of "Superman's Super-Courtship" (Action #289) that were not in the June 1962 original, and why?

It's got to be something to do with the "why Superman doesn't bonk Supergirl" bit... Did they delete the "I'd do someone like you" part?

ha! right story... but no. The correct answer is Legion-specific rather than El-specific.

Did this story feature the Adult Legion? If it's the one where some of the Legionnaires were married to other Legionnaires, I'll guess that Imra was not married to Garth.

good guess, and in the right ballpark... but no. This story as it originally appeared was the first to show a version of Imra and Garth who were married.

Then was it Phantom Woman who was married to someone other than Colossal Man?

very, very close. Involves one of those two.

I mean Ultra Man.

So to be less ambiguous: Tinya is NOT married to Jo Nah, as would later be the official mythos.

Harrumph, okay, Jo never did marry Tinya, did he? Oh well, you know what I mean.

right on the first one. The story, published with a June 1962 cover date, even predates Jo's first appearance (the following month), let alone them being a couple. Later reprints of the story would reference Tinya being married to Jo (within standard Silver Age Adult Legion lore).

Go, Shiny!

Damn, keep forgetting not to try so hard when I don't have a question ready.

Ha! I just looked up two reprints of the story and found the same thing, although the change strikes me as totally unnecessary. Kara's line--"After all, she's probably still single"--reflects only her limited knowledge at the time, not whether Phantom Woman was actually married.

Okay, speaking of Imra being married, back in the original Legion timeline (we call that preboot, yes?) Garth and Imra were abducted immediately upon departing for their honeymoon. They were taken to a colony on what body in the Sol system?

Actually, I found some scans of the story in Action #289 and Adventure #390 (the latter as "When Supergirl Played Cupid"), and even at a casual glance there's more changes in the Adult Legion section there than just a footnote.




(Also note "Phantom Woman" loses the blue/white "phantom" effect. It's more obvious in other panels, but I was going quite far enough already!)

And that footnote...

Some of the changes are understandable--explaining that the clubhouse is a replica of the original for example--but at least one strikes me as odd: Cosmic Man has been replaced by Brainiac 5 in the "make new flight rings panel"!

Just so SS's new question doesn't get lost:

I'd say that could just be that there wasn't enough detail for the colorist to know who it was supposed to be, and just picked a character because it didn't matter.

re: Shiny's Q:
I think it was Mars.

re: Reboot: thanks for sharing. I guess I should've better fine-tuned my question.