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Only one of the comic news sites, CBR , carried the one bit of Legion news to come out of day one at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC today. During the DC Nation panel Dan DiDio had this to say when asked if there any plans for the 50th anniversary of the Legion of Super Heroes coming next year:

I just wish they'd hurry up and tell us where the major celebration is happening. I can't imagine it would be anywhere but SDCC but you never know.

isn't next year the Legion's 50th?

Yep. And that's what it says above.

all right! at least they're not teasing-and-abandoning us with JLA/JSA.

The more I think on it, reintro-ing young Clark's LSH history has to have reasonably permanent implications.

http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50803

I don't know if any of you have seen this yet and i oculdn't find anything in here about it, but look at Geoff Johns' post about halfway down the first page...

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So, is it a mini detailing the new Supes/LSH history or what?

pleeeeease . . . pretty please

Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but it seems to me that DC is at least tinkering with the notion of managing and expanding the Legion brand-name, instead of letting lapse into obscurity. I don't think it just the upcoming 50th anniversary.

They must look at Marvel's success with the <insert adjective here> X-<insert noun here> strategy and wonder what properties they have that they could expand with similar success.

JLA/JSA/Titans/the Legion is a pretty awesome inventory. Surely DC can come up with a strategy for developing all four brand-names without cannibalizing their own sales. (Well, maybe not.)

I'm curious to see how the WaK Legion and the 2007 JLA/JSA crossover Legion fit in the multiverse. Maybe 2008 will bring us a Legion/Legion crossover. : )

This could be anything from a new series to a mini to just the announced appearance of this Legion in Action Comics. Any way, though, I'd be happy to see more of them.

And if DC doesn't cash in on the Legion's 50th anniversary they are idiots. Michael just posted a reminder out over in the Omnicom that the Legion is the first super-powered team of the Silver Age. They predate everyone. They need to have a media blitz to the point where we're all sick of the Legion.

Heh, that was me who started that thread! Yes it worked! Somebody has to give DC a kick in the pants! Maybe we should all email them about the Legion's 50th! Legion Worlders Unite! Assemble! Um, transform?

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I'll buy 5 issues every month to support the thing.

So, uh, is anyone else checking Newsarama every five minutes?

Post a link when it come up. Thanks!

that'd be kind of sadly obsessive wouldn't it? Uh . . .gotta run, back in a minute.

You guys realize Newsarama has a "Meta Refresh" tag and reloads automatically every few minutes without your intervention, don't you?

Yeah but I think we are jumping the gun. Depending on the time Geoff posted that we may be waiting on a Friday article.

Well, he wrote it at like 9:00 last night, so I'm guessing he means today.

Now I think they making us wait on purpose. Newsarama is toying with us!!! I know it!

Haven't read it yet. Link

Actually he posted it a little after Midnight (by my time zone). So unless he posts from the Pacific he posted it, technically, today.

On Meltzer's blog he also said that the article would appear today.

I just hope it appears before 5 PM EST... that's when I go home for the day.

Knew it. Just the arc name in the upcoming "Action" run.

Just a quick note. Action Comics #858 should be, scheduling issues aside, the November 2007 issue. Right around Thanksgiving given the current release schedule.

You know, though, I'm just as happy with this. Now that the team has sorta been re-introduced, let's have an arc that really delves in a little, so we can get a better idea of who these people are.

If the fan reaction warrants it, we'll see something down the road... like right around the time that George Perez finishes up his Brave and the Bold run

Who writes that series? Geoff or Busiek?

Right now? Geoff Johns and Richard Donner. For the Legion arc? According to the article, Gary Frank will be the penciller so I'm assuming Johns will be writing.