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Once the Legion regrouped if you will, Paul Levitz had decided that it was time to shake up the group’s membership some, and that meant the exit of a few key Legion players.
The three founders of the Legion, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, and Cosmic Boy cast their vote for Legion leader, and then resign from the Legion to discuss with Element Lad (who is reelected as Legion Leader with Brainiac 5 as his new Deputy Leader) what their new roles will be in the group. Coinciding with this event is the fact that the case that brought together these three teens officially comes to a close as the would be assassins of R.J. Brande were due to be released from prison at the same time.
Cementing their new role as “Legion Advisors” the three remain on call when needed, but the vacuum left behind, must be filled and so Element Lad asks Wildfire to organize a mass tryout for Legion membership.
Meanwhile, we find out about Comet Queen who is a student at the Legion Academy. Turns out she has the hots for Bouncing Boy and wanted to be a Legionnaire so badly she had heard about Star Boy’s origin (flying through a More >
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After the Legion defeats the Legion of Super-Villains they find themselves adrift in a bubble in a sea of limbo.
Together Ultra Boy, Phantom Girl, Element Lad, Shrinking Violet, and Chameleon Boy make their way to a strange planet full of industrial machinery making something.. though they are not certain what at first. The only concern our five heroes have is does this planet have the technology to send them home again?
The only thing that was certain is that the planet’s machinery wanted the Legionnaires dead and they began to attack the Legion in wave after wave. Phantom Girl managed to escape the machines long enough to discover that this planet is where the alien race The Controllers, or at least one of their race, have their ultimate weapon created, the Sun Eater. This planet is in full production and is building a new Sun Eater now.
Back home in the Legion’s real universe, Lightning Lass has rejoined the Legion and is welcomed with open arms from all but one, the frustrated Timber Wolf. Lightning Lass makes it crystal clear that she is here for the Legion, not for him, and that their new relationship must be professional in nature from here on out.
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While the Legion was dealing with the Legion of Super-Villains, other events were going on in their Tales book, which if you will remember was going on at the same time.
Tales was a great place to focus on those characters that did not get a lot of attention in the main fight of the LSH vs. LSV so here we have a little tale that hangs on Cosmic Boy with the Substitute Heroes. Cosmic Boy is attempting to wrap up the Firebomber incident that killed his mom and while they find their man, the villain is a wiley one and he manages to trap them off in space leaving it up to Legion Academy students to save them. See? Even a veteran Legionnaire like Cosmic Boy can run into trouble and need a little help from his friends.
Meanwhile the mystery of the two Invisible Kids comes to the fore front. At the end of the Prophet and Omen story, a being claiming to be Lyle Norg appears out of a space warp and now Jacques Foccart decides it is time for them to explore how Lyle came back from the dead. Of course, it is a trap. Lyle is not Lyle at More >
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On the planet Orando, the Legion of Super-Villains has made its new headquarters, easily taking over the medieval world and downing the cruiser of Queen Projectra and Karate Kid upon their return to their homeworld. The so far silent leader of the Legion of Super-Villain twists the Legion flight ring and says something rather cryptic.
“Then let me twist their alarm signal, as I once did as a Legionnaire—and let them come running to their doom.” – Unknown Leader of the LSV…
The Legion fresh from their detour keeping Mordru under wraps leaves the Sorcerer’s World of Xerox and follows the signal only to land in the midst of one of Zymyr’s teleportation warps, only Dawnstar is swift enough to evade the trap as it sucks Ultra Boy, Mon-El, Wildfire, and the Legion Cruiser containing Shadow Lass, Phantom Girl, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, and White Witch.
On Earth, Element Lad rallies the remaining Legionnaires on Earth to the rescue leaving Cosmic Boy on duty on Earth and Invisible Kid II who is mysteriously missing at this point along with his back from the dead counterpart Lyle Norg.
In the dungeons of the Castle Royal of Orando, Light Lass awakens to see Karate Kid and Projectra imprisoned in machines. More >
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As we open part two of the Legion of Super-Heroes vs. the Legion of Super-Villains, we see that Light Lass has been placed as a prisoner in a dungeon of some sorts with power dampeners on her arms. Her older brother Lightning Lord comes to pay her a little visit in hopes of recruiting her to the cause of the LSV. It appears that Lightning Lord has gone completely insane as he now says that storms are speaking to him. Light Lass refuses the offer, but Lightning Lord swears that he will obey him or die.
Some of the members of the Legion of Super-Villains starting upper-left corner and moving clockwise: (Spider Girl, Ol-Vir, Micro Lad, Cosmic King, Mist Master, Lazon, Sun Emperor, Radiation Roy, Terrus, Lightning Lord, Silver Slasher, and Terrus).
On M-17W, Lazon, Titania, and Magno Lad are stealing fusion powerspheres for a project that the LSV has planned when they are interrupted by Wildfire and Dawnstar. While the heroes get the villains on the run for a little bit, they are then overpowered when Dawnstar is attacked by Lazon and Wildfire’s suit is compromised when he is distracted.
The Legion gathers its intel and comes to the conclusion that there is More >
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As the Legion began its Baxter run, the regular Legion run became Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes while the new title became the first Legion of Super-Heroes #1 ever.
The problem with reviewing these issues is that in continuity they came out concurrently, meaning the events happening in LSH #1 were happening roughly at the same time as the events in Tales of the LSH #314… hence the dilemma of how to simplify this for the novice reader. So, lets finish up some old business in Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes before tackling the major arc of Legion of Super-Heroes #1-5.
As we open the Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes we discover Sun Boy, Brainiac Five, and Supergirl on hand as witnesses for the Trial of Ontirr, the traitorous Science Police officer who collaborated with the Emerald Empress back in LSH #302-303. It turns out that Ontirr is a member of the villainous Dark Circle, the group of shadowy anarchists threatening to undermine the United Planets.
While the Legion is busy putting Ontirr and a whole bunch of Dark Circle clones in their places… (and pay attention because that is going to come back to haunt us in a bit…) We get the White Witch’s origin story in a back-up piece More >
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In the 30th Century.. while everyone else is dealing with the Omen and Prophet story, the Legion left Brainiac Five on Earth who is very close to discovering a cure for Invisible Kid II’s baby sister who turned into a host for the villainous C.O.M.P.U.T.O.
Well, it did not go without a few hitches….
2984? Yes, back then the Legion was always automatically 1,000 years ahead of where we stood now.
As you can tell from the cover, the Legion Headquarters goes Ka-Boom! In it’s place not only do we get a cured Danielle Foccart and a new sleek metallic headquarters, but the villain C.O.M.P.U.T.O. becomes the Legion’s new Major Domo, much to the horrified shock of Duo Damsel and her husband Bouncing Boy.
All in all, the Legion HQ is rebuilt into a sleek new metallic construct that can actually fly (though it hardly ever did) and Danielle Foccart is on the road to recovery.
And because all good geeks love maps of headquarters…
Neato huh? I find it amusing that only the invulnerable members “live” near Brainy’s Multi-Lab for safety reasons… Very nice touch.
Then its up to the Legion to stop a conspiracy within the Science Police, which they succeed of course.
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The Legion’s stories continue in a four part story featuring two very esoteric characters called Omen and Prophet. The story is my least favorite of the Legion stories that I have read in the original Levitz run, but it does have some interesting art pieces and some twists and turns that pay off later.
As the Legion deals with Prophet foretelling the coming of his Master, Omen, a few other Legionnaires deal with personal matters as we see Colossal Boy taking his new Durlan wife Yera home to meet mom and dad in a revisit of “Guess Who is Coming to Dinner?” Gim reveals to his dad and mom, mom being the President of Earth, that his wife is actually Yera, a Durlan actress.
On their honeymoon, Queen Projectra and Karate Kid are on a honeymoon planet, only to find that Projectra’s cousin Pharoxx is there making trouble for the couple. Karate Kid (King?) and Queen Projectra make short work of the usurping cousin, but before they can do anything with him, he disappears in a space warp. A plot hole to be continued later.
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The Legion is debating adding some new members to their ranks with the departure of Projectra and Karate Kid and where else to look but to the Legion Academy, the training ground of many of the members of the Legion.
At this writing the Legion Academy’s student body consists of Shadow Kid, Power Boy, Crystal Kid, Nightwind, Lamprey, Laurel Kent, Comet Queen, Urk, and Magnetic Kid. Since both Shadow Kid and Magnetic Kid duplicate current Legionnaires powers (Shadow Lass and Cosmic Boy) both are ineligible for promotion, the others however are eager for the chance to move up to the big leagues.
Joining the Academy, Invisible Kid II and White Witch appear for a few lessons in how to be a Legionnaire since they were both elected to membership on the fly. Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel stress the need for teamwork which is key in an organization like the Legion. Acknowledging their powers are not the strongest, but they are each pieces of the whole and everyone’s powers, when used properly can be an asset to the Legion. The students soon get a test as a few animals break out of the Metropolis Zoo. The students manage to subdue the creatures, but the egos More >
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In the future, the Legion of Super-Heroes is in a resting period for most of the team as we see Chameleon Boy and his father R.J. Brande return to the highly toxic and xenophobic tribal world of their origin, Durla.
The team also gets a few new costumes as showcased here on this cover, a tribute to an older Legion cover from its Silver Age origins in Adventure Comics. When the father/son pair arrive on Durla, immediately they are set upon by their fellow tribal Durlans for leaving Durla. The Durlans appear as a race in large purple robes with tentacles come from the hood, presumably these tentacles transform into the antennae we see Cham wear. R.J. Brande, Cham’s father, is also powerless at this time and has been stuck in his form of an older humanoid male since the origin of the Legion when the founders stopped the assassination attempt on his life.
R.J. had arranged for Reep/Chameleon Boy to join the Legion in its early days as a way of helping Durlan relations with the rest of the United Planets, but Durla itself remains a reluctant world. A toxic atmosphere laced with radiation and pollution, the counsel of Durla imprisons Chameleon Boy and R.J. More >
