Recall I said I had to give an unavoidable clue. In stating the Trivia Question, I necessarily prefaced it with "With the exception of Who's Who in LSH # 7" because of it's 270 thumbnail Legion character portraits.
Well, the answer is Who's Who in LSH # 6! 28 Legionnaires, count 'em up. I was sure somebody would go thru the other six issues and spot # 6's plethora of Legionnaires, but maybe not that many people have it (WWLSH issues are not easy to find; I don't have # 3 myself and hopefully that doesn't have 29 Legionnaires!)
The cover artists cited as clues are Jim Valentino (penciller) and George Perez (inker.) It was pubbed in Oct, 1988.
If somebody has # 6 and wants to post a cover image for everybody it may be hard because it's a wraparound. The back half has 14 L's and so does the front. The scene is simply all the L's flying outward in a loose sunburst pattern over a close shot of 31st century Metropolis, with a beautiful warm orange sky behind them. It's a great scene.
Okay, next Trivia Question and I'll make it easy!
Who is the only Adventure era Legionnaire to have an alliterative civilian name? (Princess Projectra doesn't count. )
quote:Originally posted by Reep: Re: my second Q about the first all active membership depiction: I can't think of any active members at that time who were left out of that cover. So, unless someone mentions either a missed Legionnaire or comes up with an earlier cover or panel with all the active membership, I'm going to proclaim the cover of SB/LSH #280 the earliest known scene of the entire active Legion membership!
Doesn't the large "Find Ultra Boy" slightly dent that
quote:Who is the only Adventure era Legionnaire to have an alliterative civilian name? (Princess Projectra doesn't count. )
Nura Nal (Dream Girl)
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I'm pretty sure I'm right (though it'd be embarrasing if I weren't considering my name and avatar ) so I'll just ask the next Q to move things along:
Which character was the product of "centuries of inbreeding"
[ July 10, 2003, 01:08 PM: Message edited by: DrakeB3003 ]
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quote:Originally posted by DrakeB3003: Which character was the product of "centuries of inbreeding"
Dubya?
Boy, Drake, if there ever was a straight line...!
Seriously, I'm gonna guess Dawnstar.
I wanted to post the results of a search I did on my inquiry of what was the first known panel/cover that had all the active Legionnaires in it.
Even though I felt It wasn't in Adventure, I decided to check issues I knew had many members in it. Before I did, I made the time-saving observation that scene would have to have Supergirl, since she was on active status during Adventure, even if she only appeared roughly every year. Checked 313, 325, 359/360, but no luck.
Moving on, I recalled the great wedding scene in SB 200 with a zillion characters. Checking the story reveals that Mon & Shady stayed on monitor duty at the HQ and weren't in the scene.
So I went all the way to my original suspicion of SB 245, and sure enough, the first panel of the epilogue, the one with everybody seated around the round meeeting table while Wildfire banged a gavel, does indeed have every active Legionnaire in the picture.
I used my list on the order the Legionnaires joined, and every Legionnaire not in the scene was either dead or had some form of reserve status at that time (including Tyroc who I believe by then had some official designation of detached service or the like.) Interestingly, on the very next page Garth & Imra rejoin the team.
So there it is - until disproven with an earlier example - the first known depiction of all active Legionnaires in one scene is the epilogue to The Earthwar in Superboy & The Legion # 245.
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Oh yeah, and yes you are correct!! Dawnstar's abilities came through "centuries of inbreeding" (eewwwww...)
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