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Legionnaires #1. I loved that version of the Legion, and when i saw that cover for the first time, it really got me excited.

Legion #1. It has a very "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" vibe with them coming out of the light like that. Great cover!

Legion #1. Beautiful cover.

Legion # 1, for the mystery, uniqueness, and resolution of the Lost story.

Legionnaires #1.

It was tough though, I love the energy popping off the page by Copiel.

Legion #1
Dynamic and foreboding.

Taking any sentimental attachment to characters aside, I think The Legion #1 is one of the best first issue covers I have seen for ANY comic book team really....it has loads of atmosphere, so it gets my vote!

Okay, after an initially close race, THE LEGION takes the win with 18 votes, trouncing LEGIONNAIRES with 7 votes!

Next face-off coming up soon!

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Here at Face-Off Central, we listen to YOU!! One of our regular voters wondered about having a face-off 'twixt an original BAXTER COVER and the later NEWSTAND COVER.... and I thought that sounded fun!


Original:




VS.


Newstand:

The newstand version, because it has Comet Queen.

Wow. Lightle vs. Colon. Each has its strengths, but I need to go with Legion #11. Rokk looks great on that cover.

Good art on both, I have no idea what the story is about in either, two out of three of my favorite costumes (Garth and Imra, Rokk, not so much) and one of Imra's more interesting face-framing hairstyles.

Both also have Chuck.

The LSH cover has some dynamic poses and gratuitious displays of power and a shot of the HQ.

The Tales cover has Nose-Grabber Lad, some alien world and cityscape, and a third-tier character (Comet Queen). I love to see Academy students (although she's at the bottom of the list I'd want to see...).

Wow. This one isn't easy!

I'll go with Tales, since the cover may not be as beautiful as Lightle's work on the LSH cover, but it is more representative of what's behind the cover, and it's suggestive that the Big Three founders are going to take a break, to deal with non-superheroing life concerns, like Graym-raising or whatever it is that has Rokk with such a frowny face.

A Legion with less focus on the Big Three, and more on less-developed characters, appeals to me, and while I have no idea if this is what the Tales cover actually means, that's what it *feels* like it represents...

While I really like Lightle's Bouncing Boy, I think the Colon cover is much more well done, all starfieldy and stuff.

NEWSTAND.

LSH #11...Lightle wins everytime for me.

I love that 60s style strip across the bottom of the LSH #11 cover with Bouncing Boy pointing to the announcement of his own appearance in the issue, and generally prefer Lightle's art to Colon's...

But I'm gonna go with Tales #336 for the win. Just seems like a cleverer and more interesting design.

Love both these covers. Hard to choose. Gonna go with the Tales cover. I love the founders fading into the scenery aspect, plus...Bouncing Boy and Comet Queen - TOGETHER?!?!?!

Well, I love Lightle but it's the Tales cover for me. That's the cover I own. I never even saw the Baxter covers until years later.

I haven't seen the TALES covers until recently...!

I hadn't seen that Tales cover until the other day, either!

I'm going to go with it, if nothing else because it really has the feel of the passage of of the torch, with the founders all grown up in the background and the young ambitious Academy student in the foreground. I really like it!

I gotta go with the Tales cover too.. if only for Comet Queen's inclusion.

Lightle?

You seem unsure, Peebs!

I am. neither of them have bought me a drink yet.

Tales, for all the reasons cited above. In particular, it contains emotion and a more natural sense of movement whereas the Baxter cover presents a generic group shot.