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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2016 17:20:07 GMT -5
The debate over whether or not Cosmic Boy goes commando can now be laid to rest.
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Post by Action Ace on Feb 8, 2016 20:43:57 GMT -5
 I just bid on this. Look at it! I'm trying to decide how much is too much. I paid $2 for mine over a decade ago. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Feb 9, 2016 9:22:25 GMT -5
I just bid on this. Look at it! I'm trying to decide how much is too much. I paid $2 for mine over a decade ago. I saw it for $2 a couple of months ago, but it was in a pretty bad condition.  |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 9, 2016 18:25:04 GMT -5
I got it for $3.65!
I bid on some more stuff from the same dealer that doesn't come up for a few days so it may be a week or so before I get it.
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Post by String on Feb 10, 2016 16:00:41 GMT -5
Wait, that's not fair. Streaky doesn't have anyone to attack. Long-time Legion fan, currently dismayed, disappointed and appalled (with two Ls) that DC is not publishing a Legion title. Although please don't ask me any questions about Glorith/Time Trapper. Else I will get a migraine the size of Blok.  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 10, 2016 17:12:08 GMT -5
Wait, that's not fair. Streaky doesn't have anyone to attack. Long-time Legion fan, currently dismayed, disappointed and appalled (with two Ls) that DC is not publishing a Legion title. Although please don't ask me any questions about Glorith/Time Trapper. Else I will get a migraine the size of Blok. I feel your pain. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 10, 2016 18:19:18 GMT -5
Wait, that's not fair. Streaky doesn't have anyone to attack. Long-time Legion fan, currently dismayed, disappointed and appalled (with two Ls) that DC is not publishing a Legion title. Although please don't ask me any questions about Glorith/Time Trapper. Else I will get a migraine the size of Blok. Welcome to the thread, String! The more the merrier! It is very sad that there is no Legion title right now. And I even supported the last attempt. I have most of the issues of The New 52 Legion series and I'm trying to get the three or four or issues that I don't have. It was pretty OK. So what's your favorite Legion storyline? Mine is the Computo story in Adventure Comics #340 and #341. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2016 19:14:17 GMT -5
Wait, that's not fair. Streaky doesn't have anyone to attack. Long-time Legion fan, currently dismayed, disappointed and appalled (with two Ls) that DC is not publishing a Legion title. Although please don't ask me any questions about Glorith/Time Trapper. Else I will get a migraine the size of Blok. Well obviously Streaky is directing the others. He's a cat; he doesn't get his paws dirty if he can have his minions, I mean partners, do it for him. |
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Post by String on Feb 11, 2016 10:26:58 GMT -5
Ha, good point, don't upset the cat! Favorite Legion storyline? Hm, that's a tough one. My favorite single issue is Legionnaires Annual #2.  The story of the Legion trying to defend Earth against the terrorist group White Triangle (Daxamites with anti-lead serum). Terrific action scenes, some great personal drama moments, and even a 'death'. As for favorite storylines, I would say LoSH #1-5 of the Baxter series, where they fight against the renewed LSV, Mekt goes really crazy (especially against Anya) and of course, what happens to Karate Kid and the planet Orando. It was this story back in the day that really piqued my interest in the team. My other favorite storyline would be Legion Lost #1-12 by DnA and Oliver Coipel. Focusing on a smaller grouping of the team, stranding them in unknown territory, mixing in some quality sci-fi elements, and a twist ending that felt like a gut punch at the time. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 11, 2016 11:25:18 GMT -5
I love 1960s Legion stories more than just about anything and I collected the Legion of Super-Heroes for almost four years in the early 1980s during the Levitz/Giffen years. (And, yes, I love the epic battle with the LSV in the first five issues of the Baxter series. I've recently read quite a few of the early appearances of some of those villains - Titania, Silver Slasher, Spider Girl, for example, and it adds so much to the LSV appearance to know some of the history in a little more detail.)
But the longest period where I read the Legion was the 1990s. I started with Legionnaires #1 and started reading the Legion of Super-Heroes series when the continuity started slipping back and forth between the books. I liked it a lot as it was coming out and I read them all from start to finish a few months ago. It holds up really well.
Still, the Legion was never better than the first 40 or 50 issues of the series in Adventure Comics. If you've never read those, you are missing out!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2016 9:25:13 GMT -5
Still, the Legion was never better than the first 40 or 50 issues of the series in Adventure Comics. If you've never read those, you are missing out! I prefer those stories by a country mile ... I grew up reading about 20-35 of these and I wished I still kept them. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 12, 2016 11:38:03 GMT -5
I've read most of the Legion stories from their introduction to the very early Jim Shooter stories in Adventure Comics, but then there's a gap from about Adventure #350 (1966) to the time where "Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes" was renamed "The Legion of Super-Heroes" (1980) where I've only read about ten scattered issues. I was looking at the Comic Book Database, scanning the covers for the many many stories I've never read and I came across bunches and bunches of amazing-looking stories. I particularly want to read this one:  Finally! There's a story that acknowledges that Bouncing Boy is the mightiest of them all! |
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 15, 2016 7:31:42 GMT -5
I've read most of the Legion stories from their introduction to the very early Jim Shooter stories in Adventure Comics, but then there's a gap from about Adventure #350 (1966) to the time where "Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes" was renamed "The Legion of Super-Heroes" (1980) where I've only read about ten scattered issues. I was looking at the Comic Book Database, scanning the covers for the many many stories I've never read and I came across bunches and bunches of amazing-looking stories. I particularly want to read this one: Finally! There's a story that acknowledges that Bouncing Boy is the mightiest of them all! I love that era! You should try to catch up on those, maybe with the Legion of Super-Heroes archives. There's also a backup story where Bouncing Boy gets to shine against somebody who bears a resemblance to Kraven the Hunter, but I don't remember if it was in this era or not. |
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Post by String on Jun 9, 2016 9:02:27 GMT -5
I recently acquired these two issues:   When it comes to the general fan perception that the Legion and/or their history is too 'convoluted' for a beginner, I think one could argue that these two issues may be a couple of building blocks of that perception, seeing as how this was Levitz's attempt to make Legion lemonade out of the CoIE lemons that was dealt to the series. While I'm familiar with the aftermath, I've never read either issue so it'll be interesting to see how it did actually play out. (I think I have the other two parts of this storyline in the Superman titles somewhere in my collection as well). |
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 22, 2016 14:00:11 GMT -5
I have a chest of drawers next to my bed and that's where I stack the comic books that I'm reading. Sometimes I put them back pretty regularly and sometimes, the stack gets a little out of hand. Yesterday, I noticed that it was kind of scary-looking. I'm looking at lots of issues of Batman and Detective for the "Batsplainin'" thread. Plus, I pulled all my issues of Machine Man and have only read a few. Several issues of World's Finest. Batman in the Fifties that I got from the library. My only issue of Tor. And so on. So I put them back where they belong unless it's books that I'm actively going through. I kept Machine Man, for example. I got down the the bottom of the stack and there were two issues of Tales of the Legion and the Legion of Substitute Heroes Special. When I was reading Legion of Super-Heroes and then Tales of the Legion, I got this far (the end of the five-part Legion of Super-Villains storyline where Karate Kid was killed), I put all the other comics back and took a break, planning on reading these last few issues in a week or so. That was months ago. I already read the Substitute Heroes Special a few weeks ago but I never put it back where it goes. I decided to read the two issues of Tales of the Legion (#331 and #333) and type up a few paragraphs on all three of the books. (And at the same time, maybe help to revive this dormant thread?) Legion of Substitute Heroes Special #1 (1985) I bought this when it first came out. I remember thinking it was fairly amusing at times, but I also didn't think it was as funny as it thought it was. (Although, yes, Eyeful Ethel and Porcupine Pete are hilarious.) Reading it again, thirty years later, after reading a lot more appearances of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, especially from the 1960s, the Legion of Substitute Heroes Special seems kind of lazy. There is a lot of humor in these characters, but the Special is just a lot of cheap jokes at the expense of a concept that really should be a whole lot more than what we got here. The Special completely ignores the gallantry and the humanity of the Subs and the deep-down feelings of inadequacy some of them must feel at the rejection of the LSH. And all the Special does is point and laugh at a lot of easy jokes. A huge misfire from Levitz and Giffen. As far as I know, this is the only time the Subs ever had their own comic. It's amusing at times, but it's such a wasted opportunity. Tales of the Legion #331 (January 1986) In the aftermath of the five-part LSV adventure, Ayla and her brother Mekt (Light Lass and Lightning Lord) have been captured by ... the worms that live in snow-globes and talk like Yoda and go on and on until you want to bash their brains in. (I can't remember what they're called.) Ayla has a bunch of flashbacks of various important moments in her career, teams up with Mekt to escape the annoying talkative worms in snow-globes, and then beats the snot out of Mekt when they get back to Winath and he starts being a total wanker again. It hasn't been too long ago (two years or so?) that I read this. I like it all right. But I sure don't remember reading it from when I first got it in the 1980s. I missed the next issue, and then I picked up #333 and then I quit reading the Legion until Legionnaires #1 in the 1990s. I don't remember why I quit reading the Legion. I was in college, and I dropped a few old-time series and started reading a few others. Ayla wasn't one of my favorites back then (she's grown on me!) so I think maybe I was a little letdown after the great LSV storyline and then a spotlight issue on one of my least favorite Legionnaires didn't exactly excite me enough to keep reading. But reading it this morning, I liked it a lot! Ayla beating the snot out of Mekt is very gratifying, considering what a jerk and a bully he's been to his siblings. It kind of makes me want to start collecting Tales of the Legion from this point to the end of the series (#354, I think). Tales of the Legion #333 (March 1986) I don't remember this story at all! I liked it OK reading it a few hours ago. The lost Legionnaires - Phantom Girl, Element Lad, Shrinking Violet, Chameleon Boy, Ultra Boy - have uncovered a factory for manufacturing *choke* baby sun-eaters! Anybody who wants that needs to be stopped! And some of the other Legionnaires are mopping up the stray members of the LSV. And Laurel Kent is shot! But how? She's a Kryptonian! I'm a little surprised I didn't keep buying this for a few more issues, just to find out what's going on with Laurel. She never appeared much, but I always kind of liked her, and here's a storyline being built around her instead of just letting her languish at the Academy. I might have got this issue and flipped through it without paying too much attention, and then just didn't buy LSH the next time I was at the comic-book store. I quit buying a lot of comics in 1986! |
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