Eryk Davis Ester
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We don't spend nearly enough time on this board talking about this classic Legion issue!
I, of course, purchased this book off the spinner rack at the tender age of six, and it was my first exposure to the Legion of Super-Heroes! It's impact on me was so profound that it was a mere two years later that I sought out my next Legion issue!
So, just to refresh everyone, it features Superman coming to the future to get the help of the Legionnaires against the villainous Composite Superman! Except, it later turns out that it's not really the Composite Superman, but some alien dude named Xan who has duplicated the accident that originally created the Composite Superman in order to get revenge on Superman and Batman for imprisoning his father! Anyway, after a whole lot of fighting and getting their butts kicked, it's Projectra who finally manages to defeat him, so that's pretty groovy!
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From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Things that I actually do remember impressing me about this issue:
--The opening scene where Cosmic Boy is surprised to see Superman rather than Superboy --The vastly lesser powered Legionnaire defeating the uber-powered opponent through a trick --The Legionnaire statuettes that gave the Composite Man his power --Triplication rocked as a power --Wildfire blasting the CS at full force, bragging that none of the people CS derives his invulnerability from could take that blast, only to have the CS emerge unscathed, since the effects of the individual powers of invulnerability are cumulative
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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Hey! I just bought this comic about a week ago! Great cover! Kinda weird story but still fun.
There's a great Green Arrow back-up too featuring one of my favourite DC villains of all time (no pun intended) - Clock King! May he RIP! Or better yet, come back!
World's Finest was a great series actually. Lots of characters besides Superman and Batman got great stories in there - Red Tornado, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Captain Marvel, Zatanna, Aquaman, the JSA, Deadman and so on. Weird how no one ever seems to talk about it though.
What other issues featured the Legion? I wouldn't mind tracking down and reading more non-30th century Legion stories from that era.
From: Australia | Registered: Dec 2003
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I personally love seeing Batman teaming up with the Legion (with Supes as well) and always wonder why we never saw more of that.
I must reread this issue! I think I only read it once about ten years ago. I remember the Wildfire scene you refer to Eryk and despite him being too cocky thinking that he was totally a kick-ass hero.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I used to have that issue! One that vamooshed in my early 90s collection purge that I haven't replaced.
I was following WFC at the time, so it seemed like a no-brainer that you enlist the LSH against a foes with all their powers; it amazed me that no one had thought of it before.
I also remember that George Tuska art, which I'll refrain from bashing, but the next to bash Giffen should keep Tuska in mind before posting.
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada | Registered: Dec 2003
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After seeing the great Giffen (pre-the Devil coming to collect) cover, it was a little hard to stomach the weird Tuska blocky faces inside.
One thing I'll always remember about this issue though is the weird cartoony ending. Batman makes some strange overfamiliar joke about Wildfire's personality (like, how well did Batman know Wildfire anyway?) while Superman laughs in the background and Wildfire literally smiles good-naturedly at the reader and holds up his hand to indicate Batman to us as if to say "Oh this crazy guy! See what I have to put up with!" Weird!
It was like straight out of an episode of the Superfriends - just switch Wildfire for Gleek or one of the Wonder Twins.
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Eryk Davis Ester
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You know... I'd completely forgotten about that ending, but now that you mention it, I remember it!
I really should re-read this issue sometime!
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And even though I said I'd always remember that corny ending - I had totally forgotten it until I re-read my post about it!
From: Australia | Registered: Dec 2003
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The cover truly IS stellar IMO, but the story... a member of the Legion of Better-Off-Forgotten tales, maybe?
Or... maybe NOT... I find myself wanting to read how Batman intereacts with the LSH... I remember nothing of the story itself other than the plot point of the Composite Superman not really being the Composite Superman...
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