I serve up a minor Legion cover mystery that's tantalized me for 18 years, now, and perhaps someone here has a clue or two about it.
The cover to the end of the story of Brainiac Five and Dawnstar's adventure on the exile planet "Kol" ("TalesLSH" 323), with their looking unsuccessfully for lost Legionnaires, has one sub-"panel" that isn't alluded to at all in the plot of the printed story.
(It was plotted by Paul Levitz and Mindy Newell, scripted by Newell, and originally based on a Newell scenario for "Star Trek II," the second original-cast series that was never produced. Kirk and Spock became Dawny and Brainy, respectively.)
See the blow-up below: The hooded priests of that planet's theocracy are bowing down to
a yellow life-size statue of Dawnstar, with her arms triumphant toward the sky and wings spread wide. Apparently this has gone on for some time, from the cracks in the pedestal.
The virus and bacterial strains in the two Legionnaires' spilled blood were said, in the story, to be responsible for the mass death of Kol's children, due to their lack of natural immunities.
Was this image, I wonder, intended to show that -- in the aftermath of the unwitting damage they did -- Dawny, or Brainy, or both, would have been strangely revered by these superstitious priests? As having been harbingers of death, for their supposed great power? Many such examples exist in history. Osiris comes to mind among the ancient Egyptians.
Newell, who handled the "TalesLSH" letter column that they had (for a few months) for readers discovering the newsprint reprints, said that more tales were yet to be told of "Kol," but they never were.
Does anyone have more information about the Newell/Levitz scenario or script? Especially clues as to why nothing was told about this apparent worship of Dawnstar? (Well, I think she deserves it, but she's my sister {g})