The Legion Of Super Heroes: Classic Or Dud?

Looking at some old Legion comics today, I found this cover.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/6/64/Superboy_and_the_Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Vol_1_222.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20090102193121

haaaaaa.

Does anyone know more about this Australian publisher that reprinted DC (and other) content, but apparently couldn’t use the titles? (Seems like it may be up sic’s alley.)

http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-legion-in-australia.html

was hoping to see MURRAY THE CAT when clicking through but idk anything about their strategies

my guess would be that they generally kept changing titles in order to keep newsagents interested, and in the case of Super-Heroes Album that they thought "Legion" was too fancy a name for sun-addled shirtless sprogs in the seventies to find appealing

These early Superboy & Supergirl stories, by Otto Binder or Jerry Siegel, are – excuse me – the dumbest fucking stories I’ve ever read.

I’m now reading this volume with my kid, and it’s kind of fun… turns out he has the ability to recognize & laugh at the absurdity of these old strips (I’ve never seen him enjoy something “ironically” before). I’m also getting kind of a nerdy thrill at introducing him to the LSH.

https://i.imgur.com/Qt7FUx5_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Superboy still not giving Lana a tumble

:D

never seen him enjoy something “ironically” before). I’m also getting kind of a nerdy thrill

:D :D

Reading these Legion first appearances, you wouldn’t know it was the beginning of a beloved, decades-long storyline.

Interesting that the only Legionnaire whose real name & backstory have been revealed so far is Thom Kallor (Star Boy) – even the main three are just stock characters in these early issues.

(Though when Supergirl first encounters them, they tell her they’re the “children” of the Legionnaires that Superboy met… I assume this was never mentioned again.)

By the way – my understanding is that the BendisBoot is dunzo? R.I.P. to the Legion once again.

Still making our way thru the early Superboy/Supergirl stories in this Showcase volume… the plotting and dialogue are just so bad (good art, tho). And Otto Binder wrote some of those great sci-fi stories in the ‘50s… IDGI.

The Legionnaires are also such scrubs here. Like real screw-ups. If it weren’t for Pocket Universe Superboy, they’d be up the creek.

Apparently Bendis says they’re coming back, whoopee

Keith Giffen R.I.P.

His final Facebook post:

https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:auto/h:auto/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_4104.jpeg

... wow

Levitz tribute:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lmieio72lgit7a5ts43iiyks/bafkreiez22fkucpu56ttzqavdv3gwszhbbhknoximr2wyephyngcvpnoxu@jpeg

That’s so lovely and bittersweet. Lol at “many thankfully never saw print”

Rest In Peace.

Aw, damn.