Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes The Early Years by Paul Levitz Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes The Early Years TPB (2011 DC) comic books. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st printing. Collects Adventure Comics (1938-1983 1st Series) #515-520. Written by PAUL LEVITZ. Art by KEVIN SHARPE and MARLO ALQUIZA. Cover by SCOTT CLARK and DAVE BEATY. Witness new retellings of Superboy's first meeting with Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad as they bring him into the future in these tales. How will The Boy of Steel handle it when he learns of his destiny as the World's Greatest Super Hero? Plus, don't miss the funeral of Legion benefactor R.J. Brande, who has a few surprises in his will. Softcover, 144 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99. 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Superboy arrives in the future for the wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad only to find a world totally different from the one he is used to visiting, but the Legionnaires insist it has always been that way. With Superboy unable to convince his teammates that something is wrong, the wedding proceeds as planned, only for the bride and groom to be kidnapped by the Lunarites. Convinced that the altering of history is the real issue, Superboy leads a team of Legionnaires back in time, while the rest of the group attempts to rescue the kidnapped couple. Can Superboys team correct the flow of time and save the future? Includes a two-page pinup of the entire Legion by Mike Grell and an eight-page feature containing information on each of the Legionnaires by Paul Levitz, illustrated by James Sherman and Jack Abel. Legion of Super-Heroes. E very kid needs friends, and Superboy, the prodigious youth starring in DC Comics’ “Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy,” was certainly no exception. Enter the Legion of Super-Heroes (LSH): the magnetically-powered Cosmic Boy, the mind-reading Saturn Girl, and the electricity-generating Lightning Boy, who materialized in DC Comics’ Adventure Comics #247 (1958). Hailing from the future—the thirtieth century, to be exact—this teenage trio time-travels to Super-boy’s era to recruit him into their club. Thanks to the Legion’s time “bubble,” the Boy of Steel finds himself in his hometown of Smallville, one thousand years hence, where his new superpals are only part of a larger clique (although the other young heroes’ faces are shadowed) whose headquarters (their clubhouse) is an upside-down spaceship resembling a prop from a late 1950s sci-fi movie. The Legion’s entire depiction of the future smacks of the post-atomic age’s vision of the world of tomorrow: Robot factories, jet packs, and yes, even flying cars abound! After proving himself a “super-good sport” by surviving a rigged initiation (hoaxes were popular story gimmicks during this era in the Superman comics), Superboy is sworn in as a Legionnaire and returns home to proudly show his father, Pa Kent, a prize ribbon decreeing him “Super-Hero Number One.” Mort Weisinger, editor of the Superman family of titles, intended Adventure #247’s tale “The Legion of Super-Heroes” as nothing more than a throwaway. Readers had other ideas, however, and mail demanding that the Legion return flooded the DC offices. Twenty issues later, they were back (with Lightning Boy rechristened as the alliterative Lightning Lad), and before long the LSH also encountered Supergirl (on yet another recruitment mission). The Legion’s roster expanded with more superteens whose heroic names easily identified their powers: Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Phantom Girl, and Triplicate Girl. Issues cover-spotlighting LSH members sold so well that “Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes” bumped “Tales of the Bizarro World” out of Adventure and became a regular monthly feature beginning with issue #300 (September 1962), and before long the Legion ultimately seized the entire title from co-star Superboy. Soon the Legion became truly that, with an enormous cast including, but not limited to, Ultra Boy, Superboy’s “brother” Mon-El, Brainiac 5 (the descendent of Superman’s android enemy), Sun Boy, Star Boy, Shrinking Violet, Lightning (later Light) Lass, Bouncing Boy, and, believe it or not, Matter-Eater Lad, as well as standbys the Legion of Substitute Heroes and the Legion of SuperPets. Science remained a major element in the tales, with some upgrades along the way, like the Legion’s original jet packs being replaced by anti-gravity belts. And a rogues’ gallery, including the Time Trapper, the Legion of Super-Villains, and even the twentieth century’s Lex Luthor, began to appear and reappear. While simple in concept, the early Legion of Super-Heroes series was surprisingly complex for its time. Its pretense as a superhero “club” veiled its true message of brotherhood—members of the LSH migrated from a variety of worlds across the galaxy, which had banded together as the United Planets and shared a common language, Interlac. This interplanetary harmony, however, reflected the Anglo-centric thinking of the late 1950s and early 1960s: Despite their otherworldly origins, every Legionnaire was white, except for the orange-skinned, pointy-eared Chameleon Boy and the green-skinned Brainiac 5. Basing itself in thirtieth-century Metropolis (not Smallville, as in the LSH’s initial outing), the Legion was often aided in its protection of Earth by the high-tech Science Police. The LSH operated under a strict constitution, which stipulated, among other things, a maximum age of eighteen, the annual appointment of an acting leader (who was chosen by the vote of the readers), and an expulsion provision (several Legionnaires were debarred in solemn hearings). Weisinger printed stories that revealed the dangerous consequences of superheroics: In an early battle, Lightning Lad lost an arm, and later his life (although he soon returned from the dead), and one of Triplicate Girl’s three bodies was destroyed by the menacing machine called Computo, leaving her Duo Damsel. Throughout the mid-1960s, the Legion’s popularity grew, and the series cultivated a loyal and often vociferous fan base, including a teen named Jim Shooter. Shooter lobbied editor Weisinger for work by pitching crudely illustrated, but boldly imaginative stories, and soon the young scribe was authoring the LSH feature in Adventure. Frequently paired with penciler Curt Swan, best known as “the” Superman artist of the 1960s (who disliked drawing LSH because of its sizeable cast and asked that his Legion stories feature smaller numbers of characters), Shooter’s LSH run in Adventure was noteworthy due to its development of the young heroes’ personalities: Each cast member was individually and consistently characterized, from Lightning Lad’s impulsiveness to newcomer Princess Projectra’s (actual royalty!) snobbishness. The Legionnaires often referred to each other by their otherworldly civilian names—for examples, Cosmic Boy/Rokk Krinn, Chameleon Boy/Reep Daggle, and Shrinking Violet/Salu Digby—and as the series progressed, more was revealed about their parents, siblings, and home planets. Under Shooter’s tenure, Legion mainstays like flight rings, the merciless magician Mordru, and the fearsome Fatal Five entered the lore. By the late 1960s, Shooter and Swan vacated the thirtieth century, bringing the Legion’s first glory days to a close, and the series hobbled along with no true creative direction until being ousted from Adventure Comics by Supergirl beginning in issue #381 (June 1969), and temporarily demoted to the backup spot in Action Comics, before being retired. The Legion didn’t lay dormant for long, returning in 1971 as a backup in Superboy before later taking over the title (again). The LSH enjoyed its second heyday in the 1970s: Hot new artists like Dave Cockrum and Mike Grell became fan favorites on the series, the heroes’ garb was modernized (Phantom Girl wore bell bottoms and Element Lad sported a perm), and new characters like Wildfire and Tyroc (the first black member to break the LSH’s color barrier) joined the team. The Legionnaires aged to their late teens, and romances took root, with several members even getting married. Science fiction influences intensified, and the dated futuristic vision of the 1960s was replaced by technological marvels, including an expansive headquarters with a full training facility, and warring alien races that defied the laws of the United Planets. With its intricate themes and scientific inspirations, Legion of Super-Heroes became the comic book equivalent of Star Trek, and continued to boast a loyal fan following. Writer Paul Levitz began a lengthy run on Legion in 1982, and along with artist Keith Giffen made the series DC’s second best-selling title, trailing the company’s top hit, The New Teen Titans. Levitz and Giffen’s most celebrated Legion storyline, “The Great Darkness Saga,” employed twentieth-century villain Darkseid as the future team’s antagonist. Legionnaires came and went, married and had children, and the series matured, evolving away from its unsophisticated original concept of a club for superkids. But throughout myriad changes, one constant remained: Superboy, a recurring and popular member. Then came John Byrne. Writer/artist Byrne was Marvel Comics’ “fix-it” man, having resuscitated several failing titles for DC’s chief competitor. Hired by DC to orchestrate a highly anticipated Superman relaunch that commenced with the miniseries The Man of Steel (1986), Byrne excised Superboy from the Superman mythos, forcing the Legion to readjust without its core member. It was explained that a Superboy from an alternate, “pocket” universe was the Legion’s teammate, not the younger self of the “real” Superman (and then the young hero flew into comics limbo). With this revision—perceived as contrived by some, convoluted by oth-ers—the Legion began to stray even further from its kid-friendly roots. Frequent tie- ins to twentieth-century continuity, including team-ups with Superman and a spinoff series called L.E.G.I.O.N. ‘89 (later ‘90, then ‘91, etc., before getting the boot in 1994), made the LSH franchise harder to follow. A 1989 Legion of Super-Heroes reboot featured an older and less optimistic Legion, sans costumes and codenames, in a densely plotted series occurring immediately after a then-unexplained “five-year gap” in story continuity (although details would later emerge). Giffen was the chief architect of this version of Legion, applauded by sci-fi aficionados for its intricacy but ignored by readers yearning for softer, more accessible fare. In this incarnation, the future Earth was destroyed, and a more reader-friendly team featuring teen versions (presumed to be clones) of the now- adult Legion spun off into their own title in Legionnaires #1 (1993). This younger, hipper group kept some classic character names (Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl) as a historical nod, updated others (Lightning Lad became Live Wire and Triplicate Girl, Triad), and introduced a new wave of members. Yet Legionnaires, and its companion title Legion of Super-Heroes, continued to build upon decades of already cluttered continuity, and readers—as well as editors and writers—were hopelessly confused. Housecleaning was in order. Zero Hour: A Crisis in Time (1994) was DC’s answer. This crossover, appearing throughout many of the publisher’s superhero titles, readjusted DC’s timeline, allowing for revisions including a restarted Legion. As of 2004, the LSH’s comic was titled simply The Legion, and borrows the best rudiments of the Legionnaires redux in a science-heavy tapestry considerably darker in tone than the original concept. A 2007 reboot actually restored the Legion’s original, classic continuity, with the teenage Superman once more established as having been a member. Paul Levitz returned as the Legion’s writer in a new comic series that began in 2010, and he went on to write the Legion of Super- Heroes monthly series, drawn by Francis Portela, that premiered in September 2011. A companion series, Legion Lost, debuted the same month. Legion members Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad (respectively voiced by Jason Priestley, Melissa Joan Hart, and Chad Lowe), guest starred in a 1998 episode of Superman: The Animated Series. Brainiac 5 and Bouncing Boy appeared in a 2006 episode of the animated Justice League Unlimited, which had cameos by other Legionnaires. The Legion of Super Heroes animated series, which includes the young Superman, debuted on The CW network in 2006. Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad made their live action debuts in “Legion,” a 2009 episode of the television series Smallville, written by comics author Geoff Johns. Brainiac 5, played by James Marsters (Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer) later appeared in the series’ 200th episode. Beyond its sales peak in the early 1980s, the Legion of Super-Heroes has never risen to Ateam status, probably due to its cumbersome cast and rich history. But the concept has commanded perhaps the most dedicated fan base of any DC series. —ME & PS. Legion of Super-Heroes: The More Things Change. The More Things Change is a Legion of Super-Heroes storyline written by Paul Levitz with illustrations by Steve Lightle, Ernie Colon, and Keith Giffen. It is the second arc of the third volume of Legion of Super-Heroes . This story follows An Eye for an Eye . Contents. Synopsis. Chameleon Boy, Element Lad, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet and Ultra Boy are trapped in the limbo between dimensions after their battle against the Legion of Super-Villains. They discover a giant machine world and learn that the Controllers are breeding Sun-Eaters to use as weapons. Lightning Lass rejoins the Legion of Super-Heroes, despite the return of her old powers violating their rule about duplicate abilities. Timber Wolf tries to reconcile with her, but she refuses him. M. Wayne is found dead on Winath. [1] Element Lad's team in limbo battle an army of robots to defeat the Armorer. They blow up the robot planet to stop them creating more Sun-Eaters, and escape home to Earth through a Stargate. The Legion rounds up the last of the Legion of Super-Villains and sends them to Takron-Galtos. Cosmic Boy decides to go on leave so he can spend more time with Night Girl. The Legion Academy is attacked and Laurel Kent is shot, despite her powers. [2] The Legion Retroboot. This section concerns the "Retroboot" Legion of Super-Heroes . This era in Legion history is very similar to that of Original Legion continuity. In 1994, the Legion was entirely rebooted during the Zero Hour event (this resulted in the "Reboot Legion"). After Infinite Crisis and 52 in 2007, however, the DC multiverse was recreated. The original Legion was restored (more or less) into the multiverse. They first reappeared in "The Lightning Saga," which ran through the pages of Justice League of America and Justice Society of America. Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds established that all three Legions were now in existence in the DC multiverse . The original Legion's continuity was presumed to be generally restored, with the exception of the events of Legion of Super-Heroes volume 4 (1989-1994). This "Five Years Later" era of Legion publishing — which was a wildly different era — was not a part of restroed continuity. When the DC multiverse itself was rebooted in 2011 (called "The New 52"), it seemed that the Legion had been spared from another major reboot itself. This was most likely due to the fact that Geoff Johns (DC's Chief Creative Officer) had so carefully engineered their comeback just several years before (in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds ). But the end of Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 7 suggested that the New 52 Legion might have diverged somehow from the original. Now even the New 52 multiverse has been restructured (be events such as "Rebirth" and Dark Nights: Metal ), and the fate of the original Legion is uncertain. A fourth Legion was created by Brian Michael Bendis in 2019. Continuity of the Legion's Origin. The Legion's origin has been revised several times, usually because it relates to Superboy, Supergirl, or Mon-El's history. The Superman family is integral to the DC Universe, so when big changes happen to those characters, the relationship with the Legion is usually affected. In their first appearance in Adventur e Comics #247 (April 1958), the organization was shown to already be several members strong when they recruited Superboy. The true origin, how the three founders came together to save the life of R.J. Brande, wasn't told until Superboy #147 (May/June 1968). That version didn't go much further, showing only (and for the first time), that Triplicate Girl and Phantom Girl were the first new recruits. After this, the membership order was laid down by the All New Collectors' Edition #C-55 (1978). The origin of the Legion and its members was explored more in the Secrets of the Legion mini-series (1981). Two post-Infinite Crisis story arcs revised and fleshed out the early history of the Legion, focusing on the period before Superboy joined. Adventure Comics #517-520 (2010) told the story of their foe Zaryan and how it led to Lightning Lad's death. And Legion: Secret Origin (2012) gave a behind-the-scenes look at how the Legion became a powerful and respected force in the United Planets. Other good sources for Legion history and origins are DC's Who's Who in the Legion , 2995: The Legion Sourcebook , and of course, you can just keep reading right here through this chronology or browse the Legion Profiles. The Infinite Crisis Restoration. "We're picking up the story after some gap after my last issue and what we saw in Geoff's work in Legion of Three Worlds and 'Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes.' Something's happened in that time that Quislet came back, Tyroc showed up, other stuff has happened—I don't have a complete list of things to be revealed, but it's quite clear that things have happened in people's lives. There's at least one major Legion romance that's gone to hell in the time inbetween." Prior to that, Geoff Johns, in a podcast Interview at Newsarama generalized: "We're really looking at the Baxter series that Paul [Levitz] did as our end point where we pick them up," "Basically, Crisis on Infinite Earths is our cut-off point." He was also quoted saying "right around Crisis… a little bit afterward" (official DC Podcast, 26 July 2008). [We're at a point] "back before Superboy was taken away from its history, basically." This excerpt from another interview, Johns revealed some of his thoughts behind restoring the original Legion: Newsarama: When you do say something like you want to use everything and not leave anything by the wayside from their history as things move forward… that kind of thing carries some serious meaning in the modern-day DCU where there are some larger legacies and “families” that are missing members and other elements…or have been for some time… Johns: Sure. Take Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Newsarama: Which you’re putting back together in Action after years of having been separated… Johns: I believe that Superman’s connection with the Legion makes both concepts stronger, which is why I’m doing the story in Action right now. Clark Kent didn’t have a group of friends when he was growing up in Smallville. Sure there was Lana, but he didn’t have a group of friends where he felt like he was one of them. He had great parents and wonderful people he knew, it was tough for him. But when the Legion showed up, and he went to the future with them as a kid…a lot of them were aliens who looked human that came to earth. Suddenly, Clark was just “one of the kids” after being so different. I think that helped him relate to other heroes. Even though people really look up to him, he sees himself as part of the community. His experience with the Legion – being a member of a group of heroes – helped teach him a lot of that. And on the flipside, the Legion was built off of what Superman did – this alien who came to Earth, and the Earth giving something to him, and him wanting to give back to the Earth. It’s the same kind of thing – the Legion is stronger for having interacted with him. They helped to make Superman who he is, and as a result, they’re stronger. Also, in the Mega Con '09: DC Nation Panel, Dan DiDio answered: Question: Why does it seem like the re-introduction of the same ideas? DiDio: They are the same ideas but shown in a new light. Take the Legion for example. They are important to DC, and Legion always worked best when it appeared with Superboy. Superboy & the Legion of Super- Heroes was the most successful, so that’s what we want to get back to. “The problem with Legion of Superheroes is the big cast and my biggest personal problem was the lack of Superboy and the inspiration for the team. That was so key to the origin and so key to so much going on there that without that, without Superboy to inspire the team, it lost its own purpose and just became a team. It was something set in the future, but it didn’t have a real tether to what was going on in the DC Universe currently. What we are trying to do is rebuild that time, rebuild that sensibility, and hopefully rebuild a Legion that is a strong powerful set of characters in the DC U again.” The New 52. When DC rebooted their entire line of super-hero comics in October 2011 (dubbed the " New 52 "), only a few properties were spared from another total reboot. Those included Batman, Green Lantern and the Legion of Super-Heroes. The Legion's fate may have influenced by Geoff Johns, who had been instrumental in restoring the original Legion just several years prior (in Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds ). The restored Legion starred in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 6 (2010–11). Johns was probably an advocate for the status quo; it was too soon to subject the team—and its fans—to another major change. When the New 52 launched, Legion vol. 6 continuity led directly into two new titles: Legion vol. 7 and Legion: Lost vol. 2 (2011). That said, the major problem with Legion continuity has always been the ways in which it crosses over with the 20th/21st centuries. With a new Superman in the 21st century, what would happen? Thankfully, writer Grant Morrison reestablished that this Superman had met the Legion as a teen ( Action Comics vol. 2 #5–6, 2012). But when Legion vol. 7 ended, it threw doubt about the Legion's place in the multiverse. Bouncing Boy and Duplicate Damsel had a conversation that suggested this had been the Legion of Earth-2 . After the title's cancellation, the Legion was cast into limbo again. The team continued to appear here and there, but in wildly different incarnations. For these reasons, the Legion New 52 section of Cosmic Teams does not attempt to establish a linear timeline. Instead simply documents key appearances from Legion vol. 6, vol. 7 and thereafter. In 2019, Brian Michael Bendis announced a new Legion reboot (Rebirth). Superman had never met the Legion. Instead, his son Jonathan Kent became the new Superboy & the Legion came from the 31st century to invite him to join ( Superman vol. 5 #14, Oct. 2019). The New 52 Legion was apparently wiped away, most notably by the disappearance of Saturn Girl from the timeline in Doomsday Clock #11 (Nov. 2019). READ MORE » Legion World posted a very detailed accounting of New 52 Legion tidbits in The Complete Continuity Match-Up. » SEE ALSO: Legion Elseworlds summarizes Legion appearances from this era, in Convergence and Justice League 3000 . Chronology. Assumptions. This chronology is edited assuming: The history of the Legion of Earth-0 is largely the same as DC's original Silver Age Legion. With the changes to the DC multiverse wrought by the Infinite Crisis, some fundamental differences must occur. After the first Crisis, the 30th century became a place hostile to aliens and Superman did not see his Legion friends again for years. Original Legion continuity is valid through the end of Legion vol. 3 (#63, 1989). For more on this, read below. We know this because Magnetic Kid's death in Legion #62 was validated by Legion vol. 6 #6 (2010). But there are some discrepancies and unresolved questions. Although Saturn Girl has recovered her son Garridan from Darkseid, Validus (his alter ego), still exists in the Legion's time. The Pocket Universe story, the death of Superboy, and the Legion conspiracy ( Legion vol. 3 #36-50) happened, but it's unclear how, exactly. It was referenced in Legion of Three Worlds #4. Most significantly… Duo Damsel's second body died in Legion #50, but was alive again as Una in Earth-0 continuity. Was she revived the same way as Karate Kid? Also, it was suggested that Mon-El died from his injuries, and was wedded to Shadow Lass, who cut off her finger. These things are not apparent in current continuity. The death of Superboy itself is an anomaly. From the Legion's perspective, did the Time Trapper temporarily succeed in killing him and removing him from Legion history? And was it the secret conspiracy of Legionnaires that succeeded in defeating the Trapper and reversing his tampering? The Emerald Empress has returned from the dead (#58). Some relationships have been repaired: Star Boy and Dream Girl, Timber Wolf and Lightning Lass. Passage of time: I use the calendar first established in the Mayfair Games Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 1 sourcebook (213MFG, 1986), cowritten by Paul Levitz and Steve Crow. It references “Year 1,” etc. and the timeline was “divided into the fourteen years we believe comprise the existence of the Legion in Earth-calendar years.” Tom and Mary Bierbaum's 2995: The Legion Sourcebook (1995) used a similar timeline and added detail. Years in the timeline are aligned with Legion leader elections, which happened at the turn of each year. This puts the age of original Legionnaires — if admitted around age 14 — at around 30 years old and the Legion has been around for about 15 years. Years such as "2973" have been changed to "Year 1," etc. All events from Legion vol. 4 (aka "Five Years Later" or "Glorith Reality") are not considered part of this Legion's continuity. This includes the characters Valor, Laurel Gand and Kid Quantum, and Garth Ranzz's identity as Proty II. In some instances, however, I have kept "harmless" details concerning Legionnaires' origins that were revealed in this series. The Time Trapper did not create the "SW6" Legion and store them beneath Metropolis. Writers Tom and Mary Bierbaum took extensive pains to construct timelines for the entire Legion and some of this remains useful despite the elimination of their tales from continuity. Mon-El never used the name "Valor" and was not a member of the L.E.G.I.O.N. (this happened in Reboot, Earth-247) Superboy (Conner Kent) of Earth-0 was not a member of this Legion, but did join the Reboot Legion (Earth- 247). "Deep" Silver Age tales: Many of the original Legion tales remain intact, but tales of the Legion's interaction with the 20th century have been largely eliminated. Lana Lang, Pete Ross and Jimmy Olsen never developed powers or alter egos, or became honorary Legionnaires. Karate Kid may have spent a brief time in the 20th century during his quest to win Projectra's hand in marriage, but his presence was probably largely unnoticed by other heroes. Phase of the L.E.G.I.O.N. is assumed to be one of Apparition's bodies, from Earth-247. The identity of R.J. Brande as the L.E.G.I.O.N.'s Durlan is unclear. Perhaps the Durlan became the Brande of Earth-247 (in which case, he no longer exists). The Pocket Universe and its Supergirl (Matrix) nave not been definitively explained in Earth-0 continuity. Conventions. Color Codes: A new member joins the Legion. A Legionnaire dies. Major storyline. Start Reading! Cosmic Teams is a non-commercial site and the product of fan research. All characters and low resolution images © DC Comics. All text is © 1996- Michael Kooiman, unless otherwise noted.