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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 28, 2017 17:33:39 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #370. I haven't read it yet. But it looks so COOL! Did you not read or write about #369, Hoosier? I just re-read that one today. Still love it... and the follow-up in 370. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 29, 2017 1:24:48 GMT -5
I'm reading several runs simultaneously online, but I'm not commenting on every issue.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 29, 2017 7:36:56 GMT -5
Legion is half the reason i bothered to 'break into' comics at all.
loved it in the 80's, loved the stuff before that, loved what came after.
most often, it's an example of 'what's right in comics'.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 29, 2017 10:33:16 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #370. I haven't read it yet. But it looks so COOL! You're right, that looks awesome. I don't think I've read that one before. How are you reading them? Reprints, digital? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 5, 2017 13:31:43 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #370. I haven't read it yet. But it looks so COOL! You're right, that looks awesome. I don't think I've read that one before. How are you reading them? Reprints, digital? Digital. I started reading Legion about #285 (or so), just a few issues before Giffen art started, and I have all but two or three issues from where it changed from Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes to just The Legion of Super-Heroes. (#259, I think.) I've read all the earliest LSH stories in various formats (mostly in the Archives series) but I decided to try to read all of the stories I've never read and fill the gap between Adventbure Comics #350 and Legion of Super-Heroes #259. Right now I'm reading Adventure Comics #350 to #380, which is when it moved over into Action Comics. Once I get to #380, I'll probably take a break from Legion for awhile. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 5, 2017 13:39:16 GMT -5
I'm up to #372. Bad guys have turned Gim's parents to glass and are threatening to shatter them if he doesn't help them train a group of super-villains to take down the Legion! The name of this group? The Legion of Super-Villains! It's their first appearance, and a most inauspicious start it is. Charter members include Nemesis Kid, Spider Girl, Lightning Lord and Radiator Roy. (Where are Porcupine Pete and Eyeful Ethel?) Also, Timber Wolf and Chemical King gain admission to the Legion. I'm still mostly loving these late Silver Age LSH adventures. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Aug 5, 2017 18:00:55 GMT -5
Late Silver Age Legion is awesome! How can anyone dislike the Shooter years?  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 6, 2017 8:58:48 GMT -5
You're right, that looks awesome. I don't think I've read that one before. How are you reading them? Reprints, digital? Digital. I started reading Legion about #285 (or so), just a few issues before Giffen art started, and I have all but two or three issues from where it changed from Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes to just The Legion of Super-Heroes. (#259, I think.) I've read all the earliest LSH stories in various formats (mostly in the Archives series) but I decided to try to read all of the stories I've never read and fill the gap between Adventbure Comics #350 and Legion of Super-Heroes #259. Right now I'm reading Adventure Comics #350 to #380, which is when it moved over into Action Comics. Once I get to #380, I'll probably take a break from Legion for awhile. Cool. I have all of the Legions from when it becomes Superboy and...as well as most of the Superboy issues prior to when he starts sharing the title, but only some sporadic issues from the Adventure run, where I depend mostly on reprints, including Showcase Presents vol. 1, but I'm missing a chunk of their pre-Superboy stories. What is your digital source? Are they all available on Kindle? |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 18, 2017 19:53:58 GMT -5
I asked the Library to get the 75$ Silver Age Legion Omnibus, and they did.
Read the first Legion Story from Adventure Comics # 247 - by Otto Binder and Al Plastino. Weirdly, I'm not sure either of them did any Legion stuff after this.
* So a bunch of teenagers with super powers come from 1000 years in the future to get Superboy to join their club. Their club is made of teenagers with super powers, so that checks out.
* They take Superboy back to the future and drop a surprise on him "ACTUALLY, we are going to make you do three tests before we let you join our club that you didn't ask to join and didn't actually know about."
* THEN they mess with Superboy so he fails these tests. Like he's supposed to go put out a fire but they de-orbit a sattelite and toss it towards a populated city. Superboy stops satellite from crashing, and Cosmic Boy (the leader of the Club) is all "The lake overflowed and flooded the forest putting out the fire! Where were you, Superboy? HA! HA!"
* This happens two other times. Superboy saves a bunch of people on the way to do the test that was planned for him.
* "Ha ha! Only the backwards 20-th century people could think him a "Super-hero!" Bet they exaggerated his super deeds! Right, Superboy?"
* Superboy starts to cry.
* The Legion are all - WE WERE JUST MESSING WITH YOU! YOU ARE IN THE CLUB AFTER ALL! "Hooray for Superboy our new member!"
* Ok, I get the general reason for this - If you have an invulnerable hero you have to threaten him some way, and if you can't use physical threats the attacks have to be *emotional.*
* But, man, everybody in this comic - In a lot of Mort Weisinger comics - are just really casually cruel to each other for no reason at all. I've heard this described as a child's eye view of adult relationships, but I wonder if this isn't just reflecting Mort Weisinger's misanthropic worldview.
* This is really shockingly dark. I do not feel good after reading this. I need a shower.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 18, 2017 19:54:54 GMT -5
I read Adventure Comics #380 a few days ago, which means I've now read every LSH appearance in Silver Age Adventure Comics! It's been a lot of fun! And though I prefer the John Forte years quite a bit, late Silver Age Legion still has a lot of charm, and Jim Shooter did a great job of adding so much to the LSH mythos. Sure, there were a few issues from #370 to #380 that were kind of clunky, but it's still mostly pretty solid. I'll be taking a break from LSH before I tackle the Action Comics years. I've heard they are kind of disappointing. I'm usually reading three Silver Age Marvel runs (right now I'm reading Namor in Tales to Astonish, Thor #141 to #153 and Sgt. Fury #21 to #30) and the Legion has been my DC choice for some time (I was reading #350 to #380 as a group), and I'm trying to decide which DC to read next ... and I was thinking of just sticking with Adventure Comics and reading Supergirl for a while! It's hard to imagine Supergirl's college years being as much fun as the Midvale Orphanage years, but I might give it a try. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 23, 2017 8:28:20 GMT -5
I read Adventure Comics #380 a few days ago, which means I've now read every LSH appearance in Silver Age Adventure Comics! It's been a lot of fun! And though I prefer the John Forte years quite a bit, late Silver Age Legion still has a lot of charm, and Jim Shooter did a great job of adding so much to the LSH mythos. Sure, there were a few issues from #370 to #380 that were kind of clunky, but it's still mostly pretty solid. I'll be taking a break from LSH before I tackle the Action Comics years. I've heard they are kind of disappointing. I'm usually reading three Silver Age Marvel runs (right now I'm reading Namor in Tales to Astonish, Thor #141 to #153 and Sgt. Fury #21 to #30) and the Legion has been my DC choice for some time (I was reading #350 to #380 as a group), and I'm trying to decide which DC to read next ... and I was thinking of just sticking with Adventure Comics and reading Supergirl for a while! It's hard to imagine Supergirl's college years being as much fun as the Midvale Orphanage years, but I might give it a try. I have #380 as a back issue. One of the few LSH Adventure back issues I have, having gotten it probably back in the early 80's. Personally, I liked the Adventure stuff from Shooter onwards, but I especially liked it when they began sharing Superboy's title. I've not read the Action issues, or at least not very many of them. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 23, 2017 14:10:46 GMT -5
Finished the omnibus!
Kind of a "Kid Gang" comic, huh - Very much a descendant of the Newsboy Legion or the Young Allies - which I assume were based in the Young Rascals?
There's also a sense of a larger universe we don't get to see much. Like Invisible Kid hardly ever gets any panel time at all... I wonder if that's why Legion Fandom was so intense; because it's easy to fill up the "empty spaces" with imagination.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 23, 2017 16:22:55 GMT -5
Finished the omnibus! Kind of a "Kid Gang" comic, huh - Very much a descendant of the Newsboy Legion or the Young Allies - which I assume were based in the Young Rascals? There's also a sense of a larger universe we don't get to see much. Like Invisible Kid hardly ever gets any panel time at all... I wonder if that's why Legion Fandom was so intense; because it's easy to fill up the "empty spaces" with imagination. Yes, I think there is merit to that observation, Repti. Though I think you meant the Little Rascals... the Young Rascals were these guys: I would add that as a kid, I loved the fact that everyone from the Science Police to the United Planets looked to the Legion as if they were adults and never (well, maybe it happened, but only rarely) used their youthfuness as a criticism of them.. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 23, 2017 16:46:08 GMT -5
Right, yeah. It took me forever to remember the "Young Allies" and then they just stuck in my brain.
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Post by Hoosier X on Aug 23, 2017 20:52:17 GMT -5
Finished the omnibus! Kind of a "Kid Gang" comic, huh - Very much a descendant of the Newsboy Legion or the Young Allies - which I assume were based in the Young Rascals? There's also a sense of a larger universe we don't get to see much. Like Invisible Kid hardly ever gets any panel time at all... I wonder if that's why Legion Fandom was so intense; because it's easy to fill up the "empty spaces" with imagination. So that goes up to Adventure #328, right, during the John Forte era? The first Dream Girl, right? The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires! These stories are awesome! I don't think the Legion was ever better. |
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