As just about everyone here'll know, I'm one step short of clueless when it comes to pre-Zero Hour stuff. Thirteen years in-continuity between the (pre-Crisis, inspired by Superboy on E-1) founding and the comics published around Crisistime seems a little excessive though. So can I get a check on this, both for that and for the details? - http://www.legionclubhouse.com/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline/Pre-Crisis
[Anyone who wants to contribute info to Legion Wiki will be welcomed BTW, not least since there's so much to fill out ]
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Seems reasonable to me. You might want to list your sources, as most (reliable) wiki articles do. This timeline is similar to one written by Paul Levitz for a Legion role-playing game, circa 1989.
One typo I noticed: Lightning Lad's name is misspelled in Year 10.
Posted by Reboot on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: You might want to list your sources, as most (reliable) wiki articles do.
I didn't write it. I thought the "one step short of clueless when it comes to pre-Zero Hour stuff" was a clue for that...
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Pre-1990, many assumed that 2 years in print equalled roughly one year of life, and this was codified in 5YL: founding was in 2973, and at the other end, the Magic Wars were 2989. Early v.4 actually moved quite slowly from late 2994 to mid 2995 (#s 1-36).
So if at founding, LSHers were around 14-ish, by the end of Levitz they'd be in their late 20s, which (other than code-names) fits. Also, Sun Boy's 18.5th birthday was in the very early 70s, so that fits the theory pretty well.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The basis of all timeline stuff was, of course, the fact that Legion leader elections were supposed to occur annually in-continuity. Sometimes they occurred annually from the reader's perspective as well, whereas other times it was four or five years in between elections.
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