Legion of Super-Heroes #2 March 2005

The children of Naltor (Dream Girl‘s home planet) cannot sleep. Brainiac 5 deduces that the Public Service, which all under-agers are plugged into, is being used by Naltor’s elders to keep them from sleeping. Naltorians can view further into the future while sleeping than they can while awake. The elders have seen visions of a war in the near future where many of their children will be killed on the front lines. The elders thought they were sparing the Naltorian youth from the grief of knowing their fate. What do the Legionnaires do?

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Superboy starring The Legion of Super-Heroes #216 April 1976

A satellite has fallen back to Earth. Unlike most satellites that are filled with electronics and doodads and such this one is packed with stolen jewels. Have you ever noticed that when stuff falls back to Earth it never falls in an uninhabited place where retrieval is simple? Well, this satellite lands on the island nation of Marzal which is inhabited by isolationist black people. Yup. Read on my friends.

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Legion of Super-Heroes #66 March 1995

My first post on the Zero Hour (Archie) Legion. This is a ‘recruitment drive’ issue where some recruits are actually recruited while some are thrust upon the Legion.

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Adventure Comics #330 March 1965

Quite the cover, right? It has very little to do with the plot but it’s a ‘eye catcher’. This is part one of a two-part storyline (see here for part two). Vorm the space pirate infiltrates the Legion. He then frames the Legionnaires for some petty crimes and boots them out of the Legion.

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Legion of Super-Heroes #1 Feb. 2005

I won’t lie: I really like the threeboot Legion. There’s no Legion-on-Legion snark in this issue so instead I’ll give some reasons why I think this version of the Legion rocks.

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