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Both covers are definitely terrific, but I'll go with L* 54 because the cleverness goes beyond the image itself with the aging effect and "bottom of glass" drink stain on it. Very, very nice (and familar) effect for those of us who grew up reading funny books!
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
...with the aging effect and "bottom of glass" drink stain on it. Wow. I can't believe I never noticed that. I am not very observant, am I?
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Legionnaires #54 for me
I prefer Moy to Davis and that coffee stain is just charming
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Legionnaire!
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Two truly awful covers!! Sorry, that's how I feel. Never liked Moy's art, and that's one of the worst of Davis'(mostly) brilliant cover run.
No vote.
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Awful? Really? 
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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Bold Flavors
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I actually like them both myself for their retro feel. I'd go with the "Gates Attacks" one, but its a tough call.
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I somewhat suspected if ANY cover had a possibility of taking down Alan Davis, it was LEGIONNAIRES 54.
I was right...
FINAL TALLY
LEGIONNAIRES 54 ...15 votes
LEGION o/SH 92 ...13 votes
(it was still quite close!)
Stay tuned for the next FACEOFF!
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ATTACK of the 50-foot GLORITH FACE-OFF! ![[Linked Image]](http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/MLLASH/300px-Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Annual.jpg) VS. ![[Linked Image]](http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/MLLASH/300px-Legion_of_Super-Heroes_Vol-6.jpg)
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Ohhhhh. I love them both! But if I had to pick one, it would be the annual!
Touch the magic...
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Trap Timer
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This one's really hard.
#53 has super-babies and pretty colors.
The Annual has sexy-manipulative Glorith (rather than crazy-mad Glorith). However, the cover also symbolizes the massive retcon of the Conspiracy story, which is the kind of thing that I really hated about the 5YL. Of course, #53 is the lead in to Legion on the Run...
Aw crap. Even though I actually think the Annual is probably better, I'm voting for #53, just because Glorith looks like she's about to "Splorp!" someone!
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This one is tough for me as well. LOVE that 53 has LSH babies on it and I like the weird background.
However: the annual has 2 major things that I love... the go-go checks and Laurel in her "Valor-Girl" costume.
ANNUAL.
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annual for me too. i actually liked the story, and thought Ultra Boy got his due as a major legion character.
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I pick the annual because I want to pull Ultra Boy's strings too!!
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Long live the Legion!
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Because people mentioned it, I know now that the woman in the one-piece is Glorith. Obviously, she means nothing to me as a character, other than having read online that she had something to do with a bunch of contradictory retcons and alternate timelines or something.
Visually, the Annual is a better picture, I think. Ultra Boy front and center was a nice touch, since, when looking at a Legion cover, I like to see some recognizable Legionnaires on them.
She looks a little too crazy in the second picture, and the doll-Legionnaires are too small and formless to be interesting, leaving me focused on her boring Dream Girl knock-off costume and hair, and her crazy, crazy expression.
Looking at it again, the background on the second cover is also annoying, with all the psychedelic swirlies and the huge piles of creepy eyeballs, reinforcing my vote for the Annual!
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I'm going with sly Glorith on the Annual cover instead of crazy Glorith on the second one.
How does she not catch an earring on those MASSIVE shoulder spikes?
All you need is Love (and a whole big bucket of Money).
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I was thinking that it would be really easy to defeat her by tricking her into raising her arms!
Her Silver Age costume was better.
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Originally posted by MLLASH: ATTACK of the 50-foot GLORITH FACE-OFF!
VS.
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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Damn, this one's HARD! I love me some Glorith, and both are pretty flattering of her...attributes!  Hm. I guess it comes down to the use of symbolism on the Annual's cover and how it highlights Glorith's manipulative ways while 53 makes it look like she's enjoying playing with dollies and enjoying it a little too much. It doesn't hurt that the Annual was a great complete story and 53 was more of a lead-in to a dubious-at-best storyline. The Annual's cover is more readily accessible in my memory banks as well. So the Annual takes it, but they're both good covers. Probably my closest call so far.
Still "Lardy" to my friends!
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This was not difficult for me at all. The Annual, no contest.
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Why do so many women in the future wear one-piece swimming suits as walk-around clothes?
My problem with the Annual cover is Glorith's put-up-yer-dukes pose. Besides 53 has a psychedelic background, >ohhh trippy<.
So what.
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I like #53 better than Annual #1 due to babies and those colors....reminded me of LSD trippies.  (not that I am using it anymore! it harkened back to my old hey day in College - that was about 15 years ago.)
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Legionnaire!
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I vote for the Annual.
Glorith's pose is wonderful and unusual.
I loved Glorith, well, until the ending stuff with Valor.
She was much better with Mordru, I thought.
And she's much more interesting as TT than the Time Trapper was on his own!
Who are the cover artists?
53 is AH!, I think.
A singin' and a dancin'
along the way.
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53 is actually Stuart Immonen and Ron Boyd... I'm not sure of the Annual though...
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strange but not a stranger
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I'm going with the annual. I don't like the psychadelic background on #53
Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!
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Active LMB character is still Beast Boy.
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