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lash, where's the next one?!? i need my legion cover face off i'm addicted!

FINAL TALLY:

Baxter/Lightle: 12 votes

Newstand/Colon: 11 votes


Lightle's cover (barely) manages to prevail!

IMO, these are Curt Swan's best 2 ADVENTURE covers (you may feel differently, of course).

I was wondering which cover would win in a Face-off:


ADV 346:





VS.


ADV 354:

I'm gonna have to go with Adult Legion

Voting for Nemesis Kid is tempting, but I've got to go with the Adult Legion.

The Adult Legion cover (# 354).

The first one seems almost pedestrian in its depicion of a typical tryout. The second on, however, contains an element of mystery and sadness.

These are both awesome covers, The Adult Legion wins, though. It just demands that you stop whatever you are doing, open the comic book, and read the story.

That's about as perfect a description of 354's cover as I've ever read.


I also pick 354.

And of course Im the dork who hasnt read much of the early stuff... Ive just read synopsis of those stories, but thats the one that I have always been curious about...

This is an impossible choice. I love both covers completely.

I'm going to go with the Try-Out issue though.

It must have been so exciting for young readers to see those four new Legionnaires gracing the cover and wondering which one of them was going to be the traitor.

I also love the way Ayla and Tinya look like they're bitchily commenting on Jeckie's outfit.

Wow! This one is tough.
I'll pick # 354 because it's kinda scary.
Characters you've never seen, yet they're already dead!

My reason, also, for picking #354.

#346 - New Legionnaires, a new villain, a whole new frontier of storytelling possibilities. Funny how Jeckie's the only one still around.

Damn you for this one Lash...great contest here. I love both these...both show characters not seen before.

I'm gonna go with the Try out issue though. Just barely though.

346, 'cause I would rather read about four new Legionnaires, than about five dead ones I may never see again.

(Obviously, that didn't happen, and we did get to see Ferro Lad and Chemical King, but I'm just basing this off of the information a new fan would get from the cover.)

Hope for a bold new future vs. a remembrance of past tragedy?

Hope, all the way, baby! New Legionnaires!

Based on characters, it's kind of a tie. I like some of the dead Legionnaires and some of Shooter's new blood.

But 346 wins *again* because it's got Legionnaires on the cover (Garth, Ayla, Tinya, Cham, Cos), and not just Superboy and some statues.

I choose #346. I don't think it looks pedestrian and I don't think the girls look bitchy either. I think Swan captured the mood of suspicion perfectly. I also like it better because it contains no voice or thought bubbles. And the adult Legion never appealed to me much.

The Adult Legion.

#354, but Set almost swayed me.

I love them both almost equally.

adult legion 354.

Wow, because I've only ever seen them in separate reprints, I never realised that the adult Legion issues take place the very next issue after Ferro Lad's death. That's really bizarre and takes a bit away from the "mystery" in the Adult storyline.

I am going for 346.

346.. aww yeah, nemesis kid! Absolutely loved that cover..

354, stands out more. If I saw these on the stands I would be drawn to 354 much more based on composition and mood than I would 346.

Tough choice..I'll go with 346 though. Classic cover even though it looks a little stiffer than the other.
The "adult" Legion never much appealed to me either.

sure wish you could show the one with Night Girl, Gazelle, Turtle Boy, and Sizzler....anyway thats the reason I chose #346. Love seeing those fab four....even we saw Nemesis Kid went on becoming a Legionnaire in the Legion cartoon show.