![]() But only when Clark Kent was hanging out in the 31st Century with his pals in the Legion. Here it was revealed that yes, Virginia, there was a Superboy. ![]() Subscribe Read Legionnaires Book One Superman and the Legion of Super-HeroesĪfter 20 years of DC Comics not allowing Superman to have a career as Superboy, and not allowing him within a thousand years of the Legion, this was their fix. Costumes were redesigned and a few names were changed (Lightning Lad became LiveWire, etc) to appeal to modern audiences, but there are few Legion stories that are this sharp, define all of its members so clearly, and are so genuinely funny at the right moments. Written by Mark Waid and Tom Peyer with a team of artists (including some standout work by Stuart Immonen), Legionnaires starts at the very beginning with the formation of the team, and introduces every Legion concept in fresh and exciting ways. These aren’t in any kind of order, and most of them aren’t even in continuity with each other so, ummm…don’t think too hard about any of it. I’m not dumbing this down, mind you, every single entry here is up there with my favorite Legion stories ever told, but this is far from a comprehensive list of best Legion stories or even of all my favorites. So rather than try and give you a chronological history of the Legion, I’m going to lay out a handful of stories from different eras that I think are friendly enough for new readers who might just be coming to the Legion after learning about them on Supergirl (or perhaps those of you who have been curious about them since Smallville or that animated series). Sharp-eyed Supergirl fans have probably noticed that there’s a Legion flight ring displayed in a place of honor in Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, too. But the generally accepted fix these days is that Superman’s ONLY superheroic costumed career as Superboy came during his time in the future with the Legion, who helped him hone his powers and gain the experience to become Earth’s greatest hero. And it’s probably going to happen yet again by the time they get a proper introduction in DC’s post-Rebirth era. And then again in 2007 (I’m telling you, Legion history is migraine-inducing). That team was then rebooted again in 2004. This made things so difficult that a full reboot of the team was undertaken in 1994. ![]() One of the consequences of that was that Superman never had a history as Superboy or a future with the Legion. Just as it did with Mon-El, Legion history got a little more difficult to follow after the events of 1986’s Crisis on Infinite Earths. ![]() Their costumes and code names are all inspired by the superheroes of our era, and they took particular inspiration from Superman, hence their trips to the past and his subsequent membership in the team as Superboy. The Legion of Superheroes is made up of a diverse group of superpowered teenagers from dozens of the UP’s member worlds. 1,000 years in the future, the galaxy mostly falls under the banner of the United Planets (think of them like the Federation from Star Trek). This golden era of Legion stories saw the team’s ranks swell to almost unheard of numbers for a team book, and its semi-serialized, soap opera nature and large cast paralleled the rise of the revamped X-Men over at Marvel during the mid-70s.īecause DC Comics continuity can be a little headachey, Legion history is a little difficult to try and boil down into a single article, so really, I’m not even gonna try. Within a few years, they moved from Adventure Comics to backup features in the ongoing Superboy title, where they proved so popular that the book was forced to change its name to Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
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