Essential Legion of Super-Heroes Comics
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Long live the Legion! Born out of the pages of Superboy comics, The Legion has one of the richest histories of the DC Universe and one of the most convoluted. No other series has suffered more with the multiple continuity reboots the publisher has gone through. Quite frankly, the team has never regained the popularity it enjoyed pre-Crisis. Still, talented creators show time and again how much potential these characters have. These are the essential comics of the Legion of Super-Heroes for fans old and new.
Top Ten ranks as follows:
10 - Mordru the Merciless
9 - The Doomed Legionnaire
8 - The Greatest Hero of Them All
7 - Legion Lost
6 - The Lightning Saga
5 - Superman and the Legion
4 - Earthwar
3 - Legion of Three Worlds
2 - An Eye for an Eye
1 - The Great Darkness Saga
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There was a very active Legion fandom during the 1970's and early '80s this was before the internet so it was mostly done on printed fanzines. After the Crisis On Infinite Earths the stories suffered do to multiple reboots. One thing I miss about the Silver Age is the futurist utopias, 30th century Earth, the bottle city of Kandor, Aquaman's Atlantis after the Crisis especially during the '90's they were all remade into depressing distopias.
True. Funny that the same thing happened with sci-fi literature, moving from authors of utopias like Ursula Le Guin to 80s cyberpunk
honestly waiting for this one
Hi Comic Belief,great video about The Essential Legion Of Super-Heroes Comics keep them coming, Also The Legion Of Super-Heroes even though born out of the pages of Superboy comics,The Legion Of Super-Heroes (ailas The Legion Of 4 Worlds) are one of my best and favorite 30th & 31st Century greatest Super-Hero teams of all time alongside their best & Affiliated Groups:1.The Legion Of Substitute Heroes,2.Heroes Of Lallor,3.Legion Espionage Squad,4.Legion Academy,5.The Wanderers,6.The Legion Reserves/Reservists,7.Legion Allies(from Antonio Stefcani to Zail Morgan),8. Legion Of Super Pets, and 9.Uncanny Amazers,also 1.Legion Of Super-Heroes (Post Zero-Hour/Reboot),2.Legion Of Super-heroes:(Earth-Prime/Threeboot) & 3.Legion Of Super-Heroes:(Post-Rebirth/Bendisboot),even though their continuity is an absolute horrible mess I still like and love The LSH and even though is still in a bad place as well currently. Hopefully they get a clean fix after the most recent Justice League/Legion Of Super-Heroes Mini-series which was very underwhelming,Also Great but superb job making sense of their Entrie timeline Also thanks for sharing Comic Belief keep up the great work stay safe out there and have a goodnight and LONG LIVE THE LEGION.🙂👍🇺🇲😀🦸🇺🇸🤩🏋️✌️
Long live the Legion!
ESSENTIAL SUPERGIRL + SUPERBOY COMICS
Colleen Doran did several issues of Valor just before it was canceled.
I grew up in the 1960s and I could read by 1964. Even with Marvel slowly stealing me away from DC, Legion of Super Heroes was my favorite comic as they were kids like me. I was angry when they were booted out of Adventure and overjoyed when they got their own book. I was a faithful reader until Giffen took over. While he later improved a lot, I couldn't take his art or writing at the time. Then DC started doing the various Crisis books and it wasn't my Legion that came back. I didn't really like anything that came after until the Superman and Legion reunion. But after that it was back to Crap again. Not my Legion.
I read that Zero Hour really screwed them up and made them confusing.
The Legion became a mess because of "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Due to that event they rebooted Superman and one of the changes was that he was never a Superboy. But Superboy was not only a member of The Legion but was also the inspiration for the team. This is was led to the continuity problems that Legion had. Unfortunately, every time the Creative Team fixed something, another problem would come up.
As an example, they came up with a fix that established that the Superboy in the Legion was not Superman as a teenager but was a Pocket Universe. This allowed Superboy to be in the Legion without contradicting Superman. It wasn't perfect but it worked. Then The Creative Team was told they couldn't have a Superboy in The Legion at all. So they did another fix, and then another fix...
The "Zero Hour" (ZH) tie in with The Legion was an attempt to deal with the mess that The Legion had become due to "Crisis on Infinite Earths." The Creative Team admitted that they were spending more time fixing problems then telling stories, and they had reached a point where it just couldn't be fixed. So they used the ZH tie in to reveal that The Time Trapper was responsible for all of the changes and inconsistences in The Legion's continuity. To fix things, his last act was the merge the Legion and the SW6 Legions back together. As ZH hit The Legion was wiped from history, and The Time Trapper himself was destroyed by Parallax in ZH.
The Creative Team used this as an opportunity to start off with a clean slate, and the first issues after ZH started everything from scratch, with nothing from the previous continuity remaining. Eventually, this version of the Legion was revealed to be the Legion from Earth-247.
I’ve been meaning to ask you: have you actually read all of these books or do you form a top ten based on research?
Well, both. I’d say I’ve read about 90% of what I talk about. Some multiple times, some once was enough. Some, I might have read recently, some it’s been decades. For instance, when I started this video, I had read the 70s/80s Levitz comics, some of the old Jim Shooter comics, the DnA Legion… but I had to go and read the Waid reboot, and some of the New 52 stuff… the Legion has a very intricate timeline… which is the reason some videos take longer than others…
Do you read all these comics online or order the actual physical copies.
@@zemox2534 I used to have entire wardrobes of comics. It kind of became a problem. When I would move, three quarters of my possessions were comic books. 😂 So I donated a large portion of it. I’ve kept a selection of paperbacks, but I mostly read them online these days. Unless they can’t be found online or there’s something big going on and I don’t want to wait.
Nice, i love the LoSH but damn, is their continuity an absolute horrible mess. Worse, theyre in a bad place as well currently. I hope they get a clean fix after that most recent JL/LSH mini which was very underwhelming
Great job making a sense of their absolute mess of a timeline lol
It was one of the reasons I kept postponing making this one. It just seemed daunting. The biggest heartbreak is that Geoff Johns managed to “fix” things just to reboot it again soon after.
Make a video about superboy prime please
Depending on what you are looking for, the Crisis video might help.
ruclips.net/video/MsiXvoZwKrs/видео.html
Superboy Prime doesn’t have the most complex history. There’s
His first appearance, right before Crisis,
Crisis on infinite earths
Infinite crisis
Legion of 3 worlds
Blackest night
Dark nights: death metal
There might be other appearances here and there, but this is basically it so far.
You missed Adventure 282 March 1961 Lana Lang and The Legion of Super Heroes. First appearance of Star Boy. Otto Binder and George Papp.
I love the concept of the Legion of Superheroes, bit good grief, their history is a mess! Why can't DC just pick a continuity and build from it. Their history is more convoluted than Donna Troy.
Did you know that Donna Troy was a mistake? Wonder Girl was created as a younger version of Wonder Woman, like they did with Superboy. But they forgot that when they added her to the Titans. That’s why she didn’t have a proper origin story from the get go.
The Legion continuity is the same from 1958 to 1994. It only gets rebooted after Zero Hour. Then second reboot in 2005. Retroboot in 2010. Then absolute crap with bendis' ego-boot. So it's simple but it's years-long rich like the X-Men. Anyway, it's not necessary to know anything to pick up & read a book. It's like watching an episode of Friends, you don't need to have watched the 400 preceding episodes ;-)
@@Cyril-1973 Exactly. The problem comes if you read some classic like the Great Darkness Saga and then expects some continuity in the 90s and 2000s. The funny thing is that the latest reboots, crisis and rebirths of DC leveled the playing field. Now, Batman’s continuity is as meaningless as the Legion’s
@@Cyril-1973 I don't fault the Creative Teams for the first reboot in conjunction with "Zero Hour." They were dealing with issues out of their control, and did their best to fix them. They reached a point where it became impossible to fix, so that's why they did a complete reboot in conjunction with "Zero Hour."
Yeah, Superboy and Supergirl always confused me .
Originally, Superboy was just Superman as a teenager. From time to time he would travel to the 30th Century and have adventures with The Legion.
Originally, Supergirl was Superman's cousin (their fathers were brothers). When Krypton exploded Argo City was flung off the planet intact. They constructed a dome over the city to contain the atmosphere and lived relatively normal lives while drifting through space. Kara was born in Argo City, and when a disaster was going to destroy Argo City, she was placed in a rocket to be sent to Earth to be reunited with Superman.
Things became very confusing after "Crisis on Infinite Earths" because Supergirl was deleted from continuity after dying in "Crisis..." and Superman was never a Superboy (he began his career as a young adult). Eventually, they introduced new versions of both characters.