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PART ONE OF A THRILLING TRIVIA THREAD CROSS-OVER!

For those not paying attention to the Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread (and shame on you if you aren't), I am currently running an EXCITING and CHALLENGING question about the characters that were included on DC's 50th Anniversary portrait in 1985, each one drawn by a different prominent comic book artist (think the cover of LoSH #300).

As has already been revealed in that thread, one of the characters on the portrait (and the only Legion character) is the White Witch.

My question in this thread is -

Who drew her?

too obvious, but I'd kick myself going with anyone else only to be wrong...Keith Giffen?

Thanks for the info. That makes me think about the presence of Wildfire and of one of Lori Morning's Dial H personalities (Slipstream) on the poster. Wonder if there were plans to bring either of them in earlier, too.

Lori got the dial in Legionnaires #47/LSH #91 (although we weren't shown what she was holding at the end in that issue), #48-50 were Mordru, "Slipstream" appeared in the poster in Lgs #50, and in a story in Lgs #53 - where #51 & #52 were Mordru epilogues! (#51 was the literal clear-up from the fight. ending with Vi suddenly growing giant, and #52 was them trying to sort that out, Brande scanning her and her becoming LeViathan). So I'll go with "nope".

As for "Wildfire"... that thingamajig is not picked out in any way in the key, even with a ??? like Slipstream. [And I'm pretty sure Triad-Neutral and Purple are coloured back to front!]

The timing is suspect though - slipping in the thingamajig in the poster in L*50 makes me think they at least some concept of where to take the intertwined energies of Atom'x and Blast-Off.

As for Blacula's question...

Um, Steve Lightle? (Somehow I think thothkins has already gotten it right!)

Giffen and Lightle are good guesses... but would I be that easy?

Before you guess everyone who's ever drawn her, I'll cut down the list of choices with a big clue -

CLUE #1: This artist has, as far as I know, NEVER worked on a Legion comic!

More clues -

CLUE #2: This artist has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards.
CLUE #3: This artist started in comics in 1972.

No, I'd have to google Harvey & Eisner award winners who started work in 1972 to even get a guess in.

Over to someone else, or the next clue.

Gene Colan?

Tried googling as well. Hmm... Jeff Smith?

Just a thought, but is it because she's a magic based character? I'd need to dig it out, but there was a brief Legion bit of the Books of Magic. John Bolton? or Paul Johnson? Charles Vess! Charles Vess! I forget the other one...

No one has got it yet.

CLUE #1: This artist has, as far as I know, NEVER worked on a Legion comic!
CLUE #2: This artist has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards.
CLUE #3: This artist started in comics in 1972.
CLUE #4: This artist is from Wellsville, Ohio.
CLUE #5: This artist has done more work for Marvel than DC but is primarily known for their indy work... and a certain Vertigo series.
CLUE #6: This artist was the first mainstream comic book creator to come out as openly gay.

If people are Googling then I'm sure those will be enough clues to find the answer.

I'll leave it for the googlers, I think. Brain Cell draws a blank.

P. Craig Russell?

I peeked at the pic in another thread and it's ...

(I didn't peek at the pic I don't think Blacula would have liked that.)

P Craig Russel it is!

So weird that, out of all the Legion characters (and even DC characters), he chose the White Witch for this portrait. I wonder if he was asked to draw a Legion character and chose her because of his association with magicy types of books, or if he's just a big Mysa fan?

I'm trying to remember what he's done in the past. Willowy magical figures are what I recall him for, so White With isn't too far away from that.

He does have an extensive background in magical fiction, but perhaps he's also a fan of Mysa's since he chose her over other magical characters not already represented

Could also be that he was just fascinated with her look.

The question:

When the Postboot Legion went to the beach, 7 Legionnaires were absent. Who were they?

Flipping through an interview with P Craig Russell, and "Dr Strange" kept leaping out, so that would be a link there.

Maybe he also liked Mysa's elegant all-white look.

Gosh, doesn't anyboday want to try the question?



To make it easier, here's a full list of the Legion's membership at the time:

Cosmic Boy
Saturn Girl
Live Wire
Apparition
Triad
Chameleon
XS
Invisible Kid (Lyle)
Brainiac 5
Spark
Kinetix
Shrinking Violet
Gates
Star Boy
Element Lad
M'Onel
Ultra Boy
Umbra
Sensor
Ferro
Monstress
Kid Quantum II
Karate Kid
Thunder

Another hint: The issue in question was Legionnaires 77.

Now, which of the Legionnaires above are not really all that sociable and would rather skip the beach?

Hint 3:

Of the 7 who skipped the beach-fest...

2 just volunteered to watch over Legion HQ while someone else took his/her vacation leave

1 was on vacation with family

1 was on vacation and decided to visit a friend at the Outpost

1 was left guarding the Outpost and doing a lot of other chores besides

2 just declined to hang out with the crowd

I haven't read this issue I'm afraid. I think I read the issue of the other title before the DnA run.

But hey, you've given a list and what they were doing. That's more to go than a lot of posts

Umbra and Mon-El
Brainy
Gates
Invisible Kid
Thunder
Saturn Girl

Wow, my clues were helpful and you made good use of them! You got 5 out of 7.

Woot! I'm not entirely sure which of them falls into what category. I had Brainy as being the busy one around the HQ, but he could just have easily said "No" outright and stayed in the lab.

Thunder for visiting family, as I think I've read her leaving issue.

I'll have a think about the others, unless someone can take another guess