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The First Appearance of the Legion! #496142 07/08/10 04:00 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Not that one! The Space Legion, starring Capt. Rock Braddon!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496143 07/08/10 04:06 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City How have these guys not been connected to our Legion? Stay tuned and I'll try to post some panels from the story where Capt. Rock Braddon prevents two planets from warring over hair color!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496144 07/08/10 06:20 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City I'm sure there's a bunch more panels to this comic, but these seem to tell you all you need to know.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496145 07/08/10 06:41 PM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ... Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ... Where is this groovy story from? Is this one of those Otto Binder Legion precursors?

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496146 07/08/10 06:45 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City The Space Legion first appears in Crack Comics #1, which also gave us the Black Condor and Madame Fatal! That means that, like other Quality Comics features, it should currently be owned by DC!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496147 07/08/10 06:52 PM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ... Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors Cobalt Kid Bold Flavors Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 34,634 If you don't want my peaches, ... Jeepers! When I start our comic book publishing company, this is one of those Quality properties we need to buy from DC stat! Very cool story / franchise! I've never heard of them before.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496148 07/08/10 07:00 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City There's enough groovy unused Quality characters that we could start a awesome comic book universe from just those!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496149 07/08/10 07:15 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Anyway, I think it would be totally cool if it turned out that Rokk Krinn was named after Rock Braddon of the Space Legion or something!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496150 07/09/10 08:39 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 65 sprouting from 3rd rib P Parasitic Twin Substitute Parasitic Twin Substitute P Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 65 sprouting from 3rd rib What year are these from?

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496151 07/09/10 08:41 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City early 40s.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496152 07/09/10 08:46 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 33,081 MLLASH Time Trapper MLLASH Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 33,081 "Who won, Ha ha ha!" "Shut up!" It's LOVE. Visit the FULL FRONTAL FANDANGO & laugh along with Lash at http://lashlaugh.wordpress.com/

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496153 07/09/10 08:48 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Unfortunately, in the next issue the Queens start another war over royal bikini colors.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496154 07/09/10 08:49 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 33,081 MLLASH Time Trapper MLLASH Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 33,081 Those dizzy dames!!! Visit the FULL FRONTAL FANDANGO & laugh along with Lash at http://lashlaugh.wordpress.com/

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496155 07/09/10 11:37 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 4,322 L lil'rhino Legionnaire! lil'rhino Legionnaire! L Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 4,322 Jon Hamm could play Capt. Rock Braddon in the movie version!!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496156 07/10/10 10:52 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Good thing there are no redheads in space. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496157 07/10/10 11:31 AM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Quislet, Esq strange but not a stranger Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 57,030 Boston Quote Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: Good thing there are no redheads in space. They were waiting in the wings to take on the now tired winner. Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496158 07/10/10 11:46 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand... Quote Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Quote Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: [b] Good thing there are no redheads in space. They were waiting in the wings to take on the now tired winner.[/b] Redheads are cunning like that. That Rock guy wouldn't stand a chance. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496159 07/10/10 01:08 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,886 Santa Ana, CA Omni Craig Deputy Omni Craig Deputy Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,886 Santa Ana, CA Interesting that a ship called "Nova" was in distress in both Legions' first appearances. The Nova Express was the ship Superboy & Lightning Boy had to warn about danger... Craig C. - Time travel stories are told in chronillogical order.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496160 07/10/10 01:25 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Good catch! I missed that connection completely!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! #496161 02/28/11 05:21 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Great googly moogly, Space Legion fans! More adventures of Rock Braddon and company can be read in Crack Comics at the Digital Comics Museum!

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! Eryk Davis Ester #973363 07/02/19 11:01 AM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Will Bendis bring back the Space Legion?

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! Eryk Davis Ester #973364 07/02/19 11:16 AM Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 5,876 Ann Hebistand Independent Scholar Ann Hebistand Independent Scholar Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 5,876 Uh? Bunny. Pancake. EDIT: Oh. I didn't realize there were 20 posts before EDE's most recent one. How embarrassing. Still "Fickles" to my friends.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! Eryk Davis Ester #973371 07/02/19 12:27 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City Eryk Davis Ester OP Trap Timer OP Eryk Davis Ester Trap Timer Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 40,345 Liberty City That post was pretty hilariously bizarre if you missed the previous two pages! I should do reviews of all of the Space Legion stories.

Re: The First Appearance of the Legion! Eryk Davis Ester #973376 07/02/19 04:33 PM Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 31,477 Touring Bgtzl and Bgztl with M... thoth lad Tempus Fugitive thoth lad Tempus Fugitive Joined: Sep 2013 Posts: 31,477 Touring Bgtzl and Bgztl with M... I wonder which one of the silhouettes in Superman #9 is Rock Braddon. "...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."