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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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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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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.
And the Legion of Super-Heroes, 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 >
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Top Row: Supergirl, Invisible Kid II, Colossal Boy, Dawnstar, and Superboy
Second Row: Sun Boy, White Witch, Karate Kid, Projectra, and Timber Wolf
Third Row: Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet, Blok, Star Boy, Dream Girl, and Brainiac Five
Fourth Row: Ultra Boy, Wildfire, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Element Lad, and Chameleon Boy
Fifth Row: Proty, Shadow Lass, Duo Damsel, and Bouncing Boy
In the Legion of Super-Heroes #300, the Legion is assembling for its re-dedication ceremony. This ceremony takes place every so often, but this is the most elaborate one we have seen on panel. As additional Legionnaires arrive to the headquarters we see Element Lad, Ultra Boy, and Phantom Girl welcoming Superboy and then his cousin Supergirl to the party. Supergirl inquires where Brainiac Five is, and Invisible Kid II (along with the dyed energies of a pouting Wildfire) show up and Jacques asks the same question and that leads us into the meat of the story.
Brainiac Five, Circadius Senius, and Rond Vidar are working on a patient at the Time Institute, it is an odd thing to have a medical patient here, but odd is what Brainiac Five specializes in. Apparently this patient has accessed some ability to transfer his More >
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Before I get started with these two issues, I need to note that Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld makes her debut here in a preview comic in the middle of Legion of Super-Heroes #298. We will get back to Amethyst later, but just rest assured that there is a connection between this sword and sorcery character and the Legion of Super-Heroes, so her debut in this book, does indeed make sense.
As the Legion is on Earth dealing with Cosmic Boy’s family tragedy, Wildfire, Dawnstar, Blok, Invisible Kid II, and the White Witch come upon a mining asteroid very close to where Mon-El and Shadow Lass are vacationing.
Apparently the last UP representative was killed and the Legion has been asked by the UP to determine what happened. The White Witch casts a spell upon the body and determines that someone had apparently crushed his heart, a murder mystery to be solved.
Back on Earth, an enraged Duplicate Boy has interrupted the vacation of Colossal Boy and Shrinking Violet and is throwing down in the Himalayas. Shvaughn Erin alerts the Legion and Element Lad, Phantom Girl, and Ultra Boy respond. Ultra Boy is reminded that he is Deputy Leader now, since Element Lad resigned his post and he More >
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Once the Legion managed to force the dread lord Darkseid, it was time for the story to take a beat and for most of the Legionnaires to take a little rest and relaxation.
The first story concerns the imminent break up of Light Lass and Timber Wolf, in which Legionnaire Blok insists that Timber Wolf sit with him and watch an old hologram tape of the Legion’s first encounter with the Green Lantern Corps.
In this story, “The Origin of the Universe” file we discover a little precursor of a big story to be happening later in the DCU. We visit the early Legion with Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Triplicate Girl, and Colossal Boy as tehy come upon the Time Institute which is on fire.
Circadia Senius, the chief scientist at the Time Institute explains it all,
“Our time viewer was ready for the ULTIMATE K-K-KLIK— TEST… TURNED TO K-K-CALL up the BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE ITSELF. We saw it– a massive hand, K-K-CRADLING our galaxy– And so we went back FURTHER— and K-K-KLIK, then it HAPPENED. A BOLT–K-K-KLIK LIKE LIGHTNING FROM NOWHERE– SHATTERING OUR WORK! K-K-KLIK—AS THOUGH WE WERE NOT PERMITTED TO SEE MORE!”
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen is the origin of the More >
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The final chapter of the Great Darkness Saga starts with the Legion recovering from the last battle from the Servants of Darkness, and Brainiac Five concludes who they are facing, the dread lord Darkseid. At this news, Dream Girl sounds the general alert summoning the Legion of Substitute Heroes and even Supergirl from the 20th Century.
Out in space near Weber’s World the Heroes of Lallor pick up the Kryptonian Dev-Em and join the Wanderers and the Substitute Heroes at Weber’s World to attempt to stop the brainwashed Daxamites who are now attacking every one they come across.
On Takron-Galtos, Chameleon Boy finds himself hunted by an insane Daxamite child named Ol-Vir. Ol-Vir sweeps the area for Chameleon Boy using X-Ray vision but appears to have no control over his powers. Chameleon Boy manages to borrow a trick from Karate Kid and hurls Ol-Vir into the cell holding Fatal Five member, Validus. Afterwards, Chameleon Boy passes out from the exertion.
A Servant of Darkness in an effort to gain access to the child that was created in the third part of the saga, destroys the spaceship carrying Light Lass, Dream Girl, Sun Boy, Invisible Kid II, Blok, Mon-El, and White Witch. While the Legionnaires are unconscious More >
