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' The Great Darkness Saga' from all-time-great Legion of Super-Heroes creative team Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, and Larry Mahlstedt isn't just widely regarded as the best Legion of Super-Heroes story ever, it's often placed among the greatest DC stories of all time. Packed with action, heart, comedy, and even many of the best Legion Rejects moments in the team's whole history, this single-volume story is a perfect glimpse into a brief window when the post-Crisis Superman's history with the team was not just intact, but celebrated. Here, they merely scratch the surface of what could have been, though even this brief run has everything great about Superman, the Legion, and even the DC Universe packed in.Ĭentered on the idea of a future where Superman's legacy has been tarnished by pro-Earth xenophobes, 'Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes' brings Supes to the future again - only to depower him under the light of a red sun. However, if this tale is any indication of what their Legion may have been like, Johns and Frank would have carved an iconic chapter in one of DC's oldest sagas. Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's ' Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes' ran as a part of Johns' extended tenure on Action Comics and was initially meant to lead to a Johns-penned revival, but plans changed after publication. Written by legendary Legion scribe Jim Shooter (who first began writing the teen team as a teenager himself) with art from none other than Curt Swan, 'The Death of Ferro Lad' actually forces a ragtag group of Legionnaires to call on the Fatal Five, the galaxy's most wanted criminals, to help fend off a Sun-Eater that threatens to destroy the Earth.Īt first agreeing to team up (with the Fatal Five persistently testing the bounds of the Legion's morality), the two teams ultimately defeat the Sun-Eater only at the cost of the life of Ferro Boy, who is obliterated when he sacrifices himself to detonate a bomb that destroys it, opening the door for the villains to betray the heroes and then each other.Ī shockingly complex moral tale in an age of black-and-white heroism, 'The Death of Ferro Lad' strikes a stark chord in the Legion's history that would set the tone of their often angsty stories for decades after.īuy: Amazon Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes However, ' The Death of Ferro Lad,' a multi-part story focused on the Fatal Five - a criminal quintet who would go on to menace the Legion for decades - defied the sunny trappings of the Silver Age and stained them with the blood of a Legionnaire.
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Many of the Legion of Super-Heroes' early Silver Age tales fall victim to the same silly tropes that make similar superhero fare of the day charming but less memorable than many modern tales. Written by Geoff Johns with art by George Perez, Legion of Three Worlds delves into not only the schism of the three different versions of the Legion, but the mystery of their old enemy the Time Trapper, whose surprising secret identity sets the stage for one of the weirdest epilogues ever to cross the pages of a contemporary DC comic book - a throwback to the wild and wooly nature of the tales that influenced this off-beat story. Whether it succeeds is almost too complex a question to answer without getting into the minutiae of the plot, but the most important thing is, this story doesn't just get the Legion right, it gets three different versions of the Legion on the page and offers some level of closure to fans of the different eras of the team. Though flying under the Final Crisis banner, the biggest connection Legion of Three Worlds has to that story is that it attempts to reconcile and re-order these different Legions into a sensible structure that accounts for, well, everything. The team rebooted again in 2004, with a third status quo and new versions of many characters introduced once again. First aged ahead in 1984 with a five-year-jump that radically altered the team, the Legion had its first full-on reboot in 1994 as a result of Zero Hour, which rewrote parts of DC history. One of the hallmarks of the Legion of Super-Heroes is their ever-changing status quo.