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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2015 14:24:17 GMT -5
Here's the last issue I have before #285:  Shadow Lass is one of my favorites. I admire her soldiering on despite that outfit. She must have been cold! I'm surprised there aren't any panels where she's wearing Mon-El's cape. "Mon-El, baby, can I borrow your cape? I'm freezing!" |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2015 14:28:10 GMT -5
I used to work with a guy who had been an LSH fan in the 1970s, and he told me his friends called that era "Frederick's of Hollywood in space" because of the scanty costumes worn by Shady and Saturn Girl and Dreamy and Dawnstar and some of the others.
Has anybody else ever heard that? I've often wondered if that was a very restricted in-joke or if it was more widespread.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 20, 2015 14:28:49 GMT -5
Who can forget the time Professor X traveled to the 30th century to hit on girls?   Kitty Storm?!? That deserves a BWHAHAHAHAHA!!! |
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 20, 2015 14:41:27 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 20, 2015 15:19:17 GMT -5
I was never a big Legion fan, but I enjoyed most of the ones I read. I started with this one:  But I didn't like it much and spent most of the rest of the 60s as a Marvel zombie. When I got into DC again, my Legion collection started here:  And continued to here:  I also bought the first 8 issues of Karate Kid's solo series. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 20, 2015 15:26:57 GMT -5
It wasn't love at first sight between the Legion and me. I liked the character profiles in the back pages of the treasury edition in which Garth and Imra got married, though, and thought such a large group offered plenty of story opportunities.
Then I read the story that introduced Karate Kid, Projectra and Ferro Lad (it was the back-up feature in a French version of Kamandi). I thought the story was kind of childish (and no wonder, since it had been written by a 13 year old) but liked the way it went straight to the point. The Legion was fun, if not very original in its interpretation of the future.
I really started loving the group when I simultaneously came across a few issues of the Great Darkness Saga and two digest-sized books reprinting old legion stories. Cool stuff all around! But after Giffen left, I found I quickly lost interest in the regular mag.
... Then I really fell in love with the book with the 5 years later storyline. For the first three years, the legion was an awesome science-fiction comic.
I refused to read the rebooted Legion for a few years, but eventually broke down and thought the Legion of the damned arc was as good as anything that had come before, and Legion Lost was damn fine. Later DnA stories weren't as good as the early ones, though, and the concept of evolution was grotesquely misrepresented. I mean, it was on the level of "gravity is a force that feeds on emotion and causes things to fly".
Haven't tried the third version of the legion, nor the NuDC one.
It's been an on-affair, off-affair really.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Nov 20, 2015 15:37:11 GMT -5
My memory is being unusually uncooperative on this, but I'm pretty sure this is the first Legion comic I picked up after "officially" starting to collect comics:
I did have one issue earlier that was lost to the sands of time, but I've since replaced:
Along with another sadly lost bit of Legion lore that became one of my holy grails. I was finally able to replace it at a reasonable price a few months ago. It regularly goes for at least $50, often over $100, but I managed to get it in pretty good shape for under $10:
So it's safe to say I've been a fan for a long time. I finally gave up during the "shove it grandpa" reboot, but I hope we'll get a better (closer to the original) incarnation soon. I've got an issue of "Superboy starring the Legion of Super-Heroes" that's a 100-Page Super-Spectacular, #201 or #202 Was it this one by any chance:
This was another of my holy grails, though strictly for sentimental reasons. I mentioned in the "Classic Comics Purchased" thread last month that this was one that I had seen in my very early comic days and wanted desperately, but didn't have the 60 cents (hey, I was just a kid). I've looked on and off for years but could never find it at a price I was willing to pay. Finally got it early last month at a small local show. I paid $15 for it, way out of my comfort zone, but the condition of it was just beautiful. Looked like it was brand new, not 40+ years old.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2015 15:45:50 GMT -5
So how many people here have voted in an LSH election? I'll explain that for the newcomers. The Legion always has a leader, and it's a position they vote on periodically. At times, the readers get to vote! The editors make an announcement on the letters page, the fans vote and a few months latter the editors announce the winner. A lot of the time they include the tally for all the members who got votes! I don't know how far back this tradition goes but they were still doing it in the early 1980s when I was reading it. I voted a couple of times and I voted for Brainiac 5 every time. They resurrected this tradition for the New 52 Legion series. I voted for Dreamy because even though I didn't vote for her in the 1980s, I liked the issues where she was the leader. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2015 15:48:28 GMT -5
I've got an issue of "Superboy starring the Legion of Super-Heroes" that's a 100-Page Super-Spectacular, #201 or #202 Was it this one by any chance:
This was another of my holy grails, though strictly for sentimental reasons. I mentioned in the "Classic Comics Purchased" thread last month that this was one that I had seen in my very early comic days and wanted desperately, but didn't have the 60 cents (hey, I was just a kid). I've looked on and off for years but could never find it at a price I was willing to pay. Finally got it early last month at a small local show. I paid $15 for it, way out of my comfort zone, but the condition of it was just beautiful. Looked like it was brand new, not 40+ years old.
That's it! The highlight is "The Super-Stalag of Space"! It's not just a stalag! It's a super-stalag! And it's in space! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 20, 2015 15:53:53 GMT -5
And continued to here: This is another one I have. I have this one and the next two issues, for some reason. I think I bought them all at the same time as back issues in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The next issue is the tragic death of Chemical King! |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 20, 2015 15:58:24 GMT -5
Major Silver Age Legion fan here (I stopped reading comics around the time of the Bronze Age, but now own a lot of the Bronze Age and onward LSH stories in collections). I never voted in those Legion elections, but I did have a few letters published.
As I mentioned recently in another thread, one of the best things about the Silver Age Legion was that no member was indispensable (except for Supoerboy and Supergirl, as they also appeared elsewhere), so anything could and often did happen--death, expulsion, loss of powers, etc. In my experience that that was rare for an ongoing series back then, and it gave the series an added dimension.
Another thing was the inclusion of members who possesed what are often looked at as "silly" powers. That appealed to me--not everyone can be strong and powerful like Superboy, Supergirl, Mon-El, or Ultra Boy, or a smart leader-type like Saturn Girl or Braniac 5. There's room for kids like Bouncing Boy and Matter-Eater Lad too. The diversity of the LSH "club" was very appealing to me when I was a young reader--and it still is.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2015 16:02:12 GMT -5
Huge Legion fan, and have every issue prior to Nu52 reboot (including Legionaries, and L.E.G.I.O.N., Wanderers, and all the other spin offs and minis). my favorite? and in my favorite outfit?  tho I liked the slightly more complicated original version too:  and totally dug the Sensor Girl outfit as well:  and although I loved them all, Jeckie was closely followed in my favorites list by: Dawnstar, Wildfire, and Shady |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 20, 2015 16:04:37 GMT -5
Then I read the story that introduced Karate Kid, Projectra and Ferro Lad (it was the back-up feature in a French version of Kamandi). I thought the story was kind of childish (and no wonder, since it had been written by a 13 year old) but liked the way it went straight to the point. Not only was that particular story written by a 13 year old, but that first Shooter LSH story contains his art too (Adventure #346). Sheldon Moldoff did the finishes. According to Shooter he did layouts for all his LSH stories (that's how he plotted/scripted--he drew the story), though then-regular LSH penciler Curt Swan has said in some interviews that he (Swan) didn't really use the layouts. Adventure 346-- Shooter art, finishes by Moldoff  |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 20, 2015 16:07:51 GMT -5
I used to work with a guy who had been an LSH fan in the 1970s, and he told me his friends called that era "Frederick's of Hollywood in space" because of the scanty costumes worn by Shady and Saturn Girl and Dreamy and Dawnstar and some of the others. Has anybody else ever heard that? I've often wondered if that was a very restricted in-joke or if it was more widespread. And let's not forget Cosmic Boy! Love the FoH label  ...and since you askedI for one have never heard of it, until now. |
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Post by Farrar on Nov 20, 2015 16:19:52 GMT -5
The girl Legionnaires celebrate after the successful completion of the first phase of their plot against the boy Legionnaires:  From Adventure Comics #326. Art by the great John Forte, my favorite LSH artist. I love John Forte's Legion art too. His work was elegant, no extraneous pencil strokes...but capable of some wild panels too, as above. Another "mutiny" by the female Legionnaires, this time in a Shooter-era issue:  |
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