Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! What's the state of your LSH collection RIGHT NOW? No fibbing.

I don't have my collection packed into boxes (those are hard to come by in Germany and don't fit into my shelves), but into magazine files (that's the official translation, don't know if you get what I'm meaning). I have a DC shelf, one for Marvel, one for Indies and another for additional DC/Marvel stuff. The DC shelf is full of Legion stuff, I consider my collection to be fairly complete.

The old stuff I don't have in the original version, but in Archive form. But I have a complete Superboy-v.2-v.3 run and all the guest appearances in DC comics presents and so on, only single issue missing is the DC Digest #8. I also have the Role Playing books, "That damned tabloid", the Legion Companion and all the mini-series.

I stopped buying the reboot Legion after the terrible 20th century stay and restarted with DnA. So there is an intentional gap in my collection I don't intend to fill.

So storywise, I'm pretty complete. That's even a little bit sad cause hunting all those issues down in Germany was a tough, but really enjoyable task. I still remember my first comic convention in 1994 - there, I bought about 50 issues of v.2 and v.3 in just one day after hardly getting one single issue the months before... ah, that was heaven.

Actually, I sold my whole Legion collection after being so disgusted with Zero Hour, so for year, I didn't have any Legion comic book with me except for the Great Darkness Saga tpb (with poster inside), the Archives and the French version of the big Legion Treasury... my first Legion adventure ever when I was a kid in France!

I came back with DnA's version of the legion, and i've suffered through Waid's Legion.

But the Lightning saga made me hope for a good Legion again, and I bought back Legion 240-350, the full Baxter run, the Five year Later run up to Zero Hour, and i'm currently grabbing older issues to go back to SLSH 200.

Sooo... i've got about two long boxes of Legion now

good for you, Bruno!

I've lost count, and since all but a handful of my comics are almost 1,000 miles away, I'm hesitant to estimate. Off the top of my head, I'm missing almost half off the Adventure run (3-6 Shooters, half of 300-345, and the pre-300s), less than half the late Silver Action, 1-4 Silver Superboys, and some of the early Superman appearances. I'm also missing 3/4 of the Titans/LSH mini from 2000, a couple Impulse appearances, 3/7 of the 80s Who's Who, and possibly a couple Secret Origins (series) appearances (I think I have most of them). I only have a few L.E.G.I.O.N.s; I don't consider that "real" Legion.

I recently raided a discount bin and came away with a big stack of LSHv4 and Legionnaires comics I was missing. I still have numerous post-5YG, pre-The-Legion, holes in my collection, but I think I've got everything from Levitz's second run. I have almost nothing from before 1980 except what's in the Showcase edition and Archives 1, 10, 11 and 12.

Well, all of them since #196 through present. I even have the Four issue run? A reprint or something, somewhere. Got the mini's.

I have some old digest of adventure, as well as some actual old adventures. I also have some of the superboy's with the legion as a backup.

I have everything except for Adventure 247 & possibly a few AR appearances. I have all the Archives too.

Are there some others who feel that it was even cooler to hunt those issues down than to actually own them ???

I had so much fun getting all this stuff (and that was very hard in Germany where hardly anyone even KNOWs the Legion), finding out where the Legion had appeared - first in German, later in the original versions - which issues you "had to have", which issues of Secret Origins features a Legionnaire and so on.

Now that I am actually having most of the Legion Lore in my library, I only look at them maybe once a months, and actual reading is even less frequent.

Since I'm a teacher with some summertime free, I have an every other year complete reread and enjoy it everytime. Helps to have a bad memory.

My "collection" isn't AR but it is "sell" proof. I've declared it will live with me, barring natural disaster. Easy to do since the issues are not in "collector" condition.

My collection definately isn't "collector" quality. But it brings me a heckuva lot of enjoyment, and that makes it worthwhile.

but yeah, it is a kick to walk into my bookstore, or in the past travel to columbia or Myrtle Beach, or even Ebay, and find an issue i had never seen before.

So, while i enjoy the books the most, yeah, some thrill is in the hunt.

While I've been buying the Legion since the 60's I get some of that thrill sometimes. Because of some bad finances at one time I missed the Showcase issues in the 90's that featured Legionnaires.

Years afterward when I got the two issues I'd missed my wife laughed at me when I did my "happy dance" and I was so thrilled to get the chance to finally read the stories.
Marvelous.

I haven't reread those comics in a couple of years now. You know how it is, on to the next chase...

and my wife thinks I'm just an overgrown child..

In a way, yeah! I loved discovering eBay and finding some great steals! I found an Adventure #300 for $8 (crappy quality, but it fills the niche, and I'll get the archives eventually for reading copies), and would buy some significant runs in one shot (Shooter, 313-322, early v.2)... San Diego '06 was my last great splurge along those lines.

Just found a new spare time activity.... hunting down the Heroclix Legionnaires

Just got the Legion Starter Game last week and had a look for the other existing Legionnaires, and don't you know I instantly found Triplicate Girl, Mon-El and the SciPolice Shvaugn - and the ultra-cool Bouncing Boy Got a Darkseid to fight as well. It's great to hunt and collect, I just love it

I liked hunting for missing issues but it wasn't always fun. Sometimes it was quite frustrating to locate anything here, especially in the late 80s.
Then a guy opened a giant comics warehouse and filled it with, like, a couple hundred thousand comics in boxes but they were practically chaotically arranged. I delved into all boxes, got dust in places i never thought dust could get to, coughed a lot, but "unearthed" so many *treasures* - and he had them in good prices, giving a great discount to anyone who helped sort each box out - that I visited that warehouse every week, before going to the regular comic shops for new issues.