Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Official Legion AR Thread

I keep meaning to watch Solo for more Legion AR appearances but have just spaced it off. I thought the run was due to be finished by now.

#12 was the last issue. And now I have to buy it. Crap...

I only got the Sergio Aragones issue of Solo, but I quite liked it. (Obviously I liked it. Who doesn't like Sergio?)

Well i got issue 12. And there are more Saturn Girl appearances in the book than that one.

But i have to be honest, its not my cup of tea.

So bad in fact i put it down unread.

Yeah this one was a little too medicated hallucination for my tastes as well.

Wowsa! Imra the panel hog is hidden and/or reffered to all over this issue!! I loved it!!!
Guess I did too much LSD in the 80s... and too much E in the 90s!
(sigh)These days I'm doin' Geritol...

In todays NY Times, there is a small article on my CBS-Midtown Comics, in "The City" section. The article contains a mention of Adv.247 as being the Legion's 1st app.
As I said, it's a very AR mention but, yes, I've already clipped it!

AR? whats that mean?

and u go to midtown? i always used Roger's on 14th ... that was my hangout on wed.

AR = anal retentive i.e. must collect absolutely everything related to subject

But is there any other point to mentioning Legion in this article, like a real reason for it being mentioned in the paper?

Nope. That's why it's VERY anal retentive!

Maybe the reporter is a big Legion fan.

Coming out in May will be Crisis on Multiple Earths, Volume 4. This trade reprints JLA #122-124, #135-137 and #147-148. Numbers 147 and 148 feature the Legion.

Instead of posting the image here I'm just going to point everyone over to my site . Clicking the image will show you a fuller version than what is at DC's site. Notice Lighting Lad featured front and center.

I recognize the Legionaires, (Imra and Jeckie both look like they have the power of Super Sexiness, not that Shady's any slouch) and the Marvel's, great pictures of Mary and Junior, Bulletman and Bullegirl, SpySmasher, the Earth-2 Dynamic Duo... is that Sargon the sorcerer? Who are the other two in the bottom corner, and does anyone recognize that guy above LL's right shoulder, in the arc of the big red cheese's's arm?

I loved these stries growing up, the annual team-up's were always my favorite thing about the JLA, which pound for pound may have (at the time) been my favorite book?

That's a beautiful piece. I wish Alex would draw the Legion more often.

The two guys behind Batman and Robin are Mr. Scarlet and Pinky, a Facett Comics answer to the Dynamic Duo.

The guy who looks like Sargon is Ibis the Invincible, a Fawcett magic-based character.

The guy above LL's shoulder is the anatagonist of one of the team-ups, and to say more would spoil the weirdness of it all.

You mean that guy BEHIND Capt. Marvel Jr.?




PS: The site looks great. Hadn't seen it in a while.

Garth and Junior are playing "Hide the Lightning" .

Ah, I don't have the JLA crossover so this one is a must-buy for me. I'd buy it for the cover alone. Absolutely gorgeous.

Oh yeah! Mr. Scarlett and Pinky, I remember now... and I almost saidIbis the Invincible, bt I couldn't get the name right in my head, I was stuck at IBAC the invincible and knew that as wrong.
Thanks!

me too !!

that cover !! and don't own the issues, so this is a must have !!

and i'd love ALEX ROSS to do more LEGION stuff too !!

Matthew.

Have you guys ever watched the Nickelodeon cartoon "Fairly Oddparents"? It's about Timmy Turner, a 10 year old boy who's life is so bad (parents who often ignore him and cluelessly leave him in the care of a wickedly mean babysitter) that he winds up being given fairy godparents to make things better. Timmy can wish for almost anything (but hey, there are rules...and often disaterous results). My kids watch it most every day, and the reason I bring it up is because of an obvious Legion homage I caught the other day, while watching it with them.

In one particular espisode, Timmy wished that everyone in the world had super powers. Two of his geeky friends end up with the following "can't-help-but-be-Legionesque" abilities:
Chester, a kid with braces, becomes "Matter-Muncher Lad", who can eat through anything, and Elmer, a kid with a large boil on his face becomes "Bouncing Boil".

Coincidence? I think not!!

The episode was called "The Big Superhero Wish" and originally aired Feb 16,2004. If anybody wants to see it, time may be running out as the series ceased production in Oct 2005, so there are no new episodes (with the exception of a Jimmy Neutron crossover movie coming this June 2006, which will also be the series finale of JN as well). No telling how much longer Nick will keep it on their schedule.

i've caught this episode when it originally aired.
i didn't catch the Legion references(until i read you post), but i loved the homages to Hawkman/Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman!
it's nice to see comic book references in unexpected places

As I mentioned in the Adv. #247 Homages thread I recently discovered an AR collectible that I've never heard of. I've even searched the web (but not scoured) and not found any references to it.

Everyone knows, or should know, of the TMK postcards issued back in 1990. Most recently we had some new postcards done for giving away at conventions to hype the new Superman and the Legion of Super Heroes cartoon. It was during one of my searches for the latter on eBay that I stumbled across yet another set of Legion postcards. These cards were only released in the UK and, in so much as I could tell, only in the London area.

In 1991 a company called London Editions Magazines began releasing a weekly magazine-sized color reprint of DC comics called Heroes. Heroes contained three stories, six to seven pages in length, taken from previouly published issues of The Brave and the Bold, The Blue Devil and The Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legion story was "The Soul-Thief from the Stars", originally published in LSH vol. 2 #284 in February of 1982. The reprint on the slick, white magazine print is quite nice, much better than my original copy.

The first three issues also featured a free give-away attached to the outside of the magazine. Two postcards reprinting older Legion comic book covers! These were thin cardstock cover reprints that appear to have been scanned from someone's collection (you can clearly see a store's ink stamp price on some of them). On the reverse was the issue # and date as well as a quick history/synopsis of the cover and an indication as to which issue of Heroes the card came from. These were actually meant to be mailed and have all the markings you would see on a real postcard.

There were a total of six Legion cover postcards done, two on each of the first three issues. Inside of issue #3 was a statement that the run was over with a request to send in suggestions for the next set. I can find no evidence of issue #4 or subsequent issues being released.

Throwing caution to the wind (one of the two UK sellers originally didn't want to ship to the US) I bid and won both lots I found on eBay. One for a copy of the first issue and one for a set of the first three. The single issue came with the postcards detached and laminated, one from issue #1 and one from issue #2. The set of three came with the cards still attached and I committed the gravest of sins, I separated the cards from the magazines. These are over 15 years old and are not acid-free so have already started down that road of all paper products not meant for archiving. I'm still trying to figure out if I want to laminate them myself, as the previous owner did with the others, or if I just want to seal them in mylar and put them with my books.

Either way, I am now in possession of what I'm calling my first true Legion AR find that appears to have been lost to the ages. And will, below, share scans of the front and back of the cards as well as the cover to the issue it was attached to. Enjoy.