Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes LSH cover FACEOFF!!!

I don't hate the new cover, maybe not the best choice for a first issue, but there's been worse.

My vote is for the Giffen cover though.
The anticipation I felt waiting for the series to start was like nothing I had felt in comics.

It's just too bad that five issues in everything was scuttled and it fell off the rails.

I like the energy of the second cover. The first one just seems too dank.

I have always loved Giffen's #1. It communicates a wealth of feeling without revealing anything but the new title's tone.

no more faceoff? it s been two days!

Just riding the # 1 wave a little bit longer...

You're falling down on the job, Lash. We want more more MORE!

Okay I can take a hint... looks like 1989's moody #1 easily trounces the current #1...

new Face-off coming shortly....

THIS FACE-OFF FOURGY is for the CHEMICAL KING fans... pick your 1 favorite cover from:


S/LSH 211, in which Condo saves Jan from himself...




VS.

S/SLH 228, Chem's heroic sacrifice to prevent WW8...




VS.

This late-Levitz era flashback...



VS.

This SECRET ORIGINS, which featured one of the most heartbreaking tales ever, "The Unique Properties of Condo Arlik"...

Seeing as how this is a cover-off, I'll go with S/LSH #228 because of the Grell cover with shock & surprise. If it was a story-off, the Secret Origins "Unique Properties..." would win hands down for me.

I'll go with the LSH #59 "Ghosts in the Clubhouse" cover.

I'm going with the SECRET ORIGINS cover...

59 for me. I just love Lightle covers.

Aaarrghh - so hard! I like them all in their way.

S&LSH #211 - I'll discount the first one since a) 2/5 of the cover is taken up by the logo and its ugly green background; b) Condo is not the main player on it; c) it is not a very well designed cover (why is Sun Boy there if he's so completely obscured?); and d) why are all the Legionnaires but Superboy standing in exactly the same front-on, legs 2 metres-apart pose no matter what they're physically doing. Actually I take back what I said in the top line - this is an AWFUL cover!

S&LSH #228 - I love those old 'Who will die in this issue?' type covers that the second one represents. It reminds me of a time when deaths in comics were actually a novel, exciting thing. This one's always made me laugh though. Did any reader at the time actually look at that cover and see those 4 other prominent Legionnaires next to the obscure Condo and not know that his goose was cooked? What a shame Deregon didn't go after that blow-up sex-doll of Imra instead though and then we might not have lost a Legionnaire at all.

LSH #59 - The third one is a great cover. Very moody and eerie. I love the use of black and dark blues contrasted with the yellow of Jacques here.

Secret Origins #47 - Another fab cover. And a great issue. My only gripe is that Lyle didn't get a cover mention or a solo story here. Would've made the memorial issue complete. (Along with a Triplicate Girl story too I guess.)

Tough choice between the second and third one but I think I'm gonna go with the Lightle 'Ghosts' issue. The better pencil work wins the day.

LSH #59 wins.

Yikes. It would be really wimpy of me to call it a four way tie, but I'm tempted.

Condo looks the best on S/LSH #211.

LSH# 59 is interesting and mysterious.

Secret Origins is the most fun.

However, the winner for me is S/LSH # 228. I like the white background and I just can't vote against Grell's Superboy front and center. Cover hog? You betcha. His name is still in the title so he has the right.

LSH 59, a beautiful, moody Lightle cover. Just goes to show, though, that Condo never got a cover he didn't have to share with other Legionnaires getting equal billing...even the issue with his death. I kinda wish that issue's cover had shown him centrally in a heroic moment, even if it telegraphed that he was going to be the one to die. (Though I doubt anyone who bought the issue off the stands would have been surprised it was Condo given the other choices on the cover.)

Secret Origins

211 is the one I want to read, based on the cover. The art, not nearly as good as that on 59, but it wins for me.

Secret Origins

Yes, Superboy died in another issue.
Gim, too.

Ghosts is actually the best cover, artistically, I think.
And the most innovative.

BUT,
I think I'm going to vote for the Secret Origins cover.
This contest is about Condo and while he's not center, he's easily recognizeable and handsome.

So, Secrets for me.

I am going with #59...I actually don't love Steve Lightle's art all THAT much, but conceptually that's a great cover (eerie), and I love the juxtaposition of an Invisible Kid against actual spirits.

Karate Kid looks like he just saw a mouse on the Secret Origins one..

211 I just like the art better. The origins cover comes in second.

59

I'm going for uperboy & the Legion of Superheroes 228.

#228

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!