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No I have that one at my site and there is only 11 Legionnaires on it. I was thinking the same thing when I posted about the Magic Wars issue.

I think I got it. Volume 3, issue #29.

Again, no.

I really hadn't considered that one when I did my research because they're all just background heads, not a depicted scene with many, many Legionnaires. Even so, looking at my copy of #29, there are many duplicated heads (and yet... yet... no double-header!) so even without counting I can tell there are less than 20 different Legionnaires.

For the record, I'm eliminating such floating heads motifs from consideration. I'm talking about an actual scene on a cover which has the most (28) Legionnaires in it.

Since several people have made guesses, I'll give a clue that I hadn't planned to. The penciller of the cover never did any Legion stories that I know of, and I familiar with most of 'em. He certainly isn't one of the main or minor artists we associate with the Legion. The inker, signed on the cover, did do a few Legion covers, but likewise no stories that I know of.

The scene by the way is pretty spectacular in my opinion, one of my faves.

Keep the guesses comin.' I'm gonna be offline for awhile.

Since its come up a few times...

Thanx SorM!

By my count, I see just 24 L's on the cover.

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!

Okay now that outta spur a few fans to start looking thru some back issues trying to find one earlier. (I don't have it handy, but what about those last pages of SB/LSH #245, the celebratory end of the Earthwar???)

Okay, time for my final clue of the main Trivia question (i.e. what cover has the most Legionnaires on it.)

Prior clue: The issue is question was after V3 #1 and before the reboot.
Final clue: It's not a Legion series issue! It's the cover of an issue of a Legion mini-series!

This should be solved real soon...

Then again, maybe not.

Okay here's the answer.

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. )

Doesn't the large "Find Ultra Boy" slightly dent that

Nura Nal (Dream Girl)

Doesn't the large "Find Ultra Boy" slightly dent that

Normally that would be true, but in this case it's merely accurate.

However, Nura is both true and accurate!

You're up, SorM!

OH boy...

Okay then - full names & codenames of both of post-boot Wildfire's component selves.

Blast-Off: Leroy Drake
Atom'x: Randall Burroughs

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"

Tasmia?

Nope -- not her, but thanks for playing and try again

Sigh... I'll stick with my crazy multiple-board meta-games... :-(

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.

Another Legion mystery solved!

WRONG!!

I emphasised full names, and one of the real names is incomplete.

D'oh!!

How about: Blast-Off -- Jahr-Drake Ningle which was later retconned to Leroy I think

Oh yeah, and yes you are correct!! Dawnstar's abilities came through "centuries of inbreeding" (eewwwww...)

That'll do

So, new Legion law of genetics: Boff your cousin and your kids gets wings and FTL speed.

"Becky Sue! C'mere, darlin', we gots to create us a passel of 'lil angels!"

Reckon I done answered your "premature" question correctly, Drake, but go ahead and ask a 'nuther one, cuz Becky Sue's got me all tuckered out...

Q: Name five Legionnaires (all eras) who have lost body parts and name the parts (death doesn't count).

Let's see if I can get this one:

Garth (both versions): Lost right arm.
Vi (pre-boot): Lost right eye and a leg (don't remember which).
Drake (both versions): Lost entire body, does that count?
Dawnstar (pre-boot): Lost her wings
Shadow Lass (pre-boot): Cut off finger in wedding rite.

Lil' bud Proty, uh sorry, "LL," I think you probably got 4 outta 5. I'm doubting Wildfire.

I think the fifth is maybe Kinetix. She had a tail once and lost it at some point,

If this is correct and makes the five, I donate my 1/5th question to my lil' bud Proty, damn, sorry, "LL," and he can do next Q.

If I'm wrong, this post never happened. Just like the Glorith universe and the Proty/Garth.

I thought about Kinetix but I didn't think her tail and ears (she had pointed ears too) counted since she reverted to normal. But I could be wrong since that is a period of the Legion I am not too familiar with.