World Famous Comics: Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 2
Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes, Vol. 2
By: Various Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 528 Publication Date: April 15, 2008 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: April 22, 2008 Studio: DC Comics
Amazon.com Review: The second Showcase Presents black-and-white volume of Legion of Super-Heroes stories spans Adventure Comics 322 (July 1964) through 348 (September 1968), an important period that went a long way in defining the 30th-century supergroup. Some of the stories are silly (Super Pets, Bizarro Legionnaires, Legionnaire babies, the revolt of the girl Legionnaires), but there's also Computo, the mad machine who killed a Legionnaire; the Legion of Super Outlaws (including Duplicate Boy); Lightning Lad vs. the Super Moby-Dick of Space; the Legion civil war; the trial of Star Boy; and the Luck Lords. New villains were Starfinger, Dr. Regulus, and the warfaring Khunds, and new members included Timber Wolf, Karate Kid, Ferro Lad, and Princess Projectra. The art is mostly by John Forte or Superman legend Curt Swan, and the writing by Jerry Siegel or Edmond Hamilton, until issue 346, when 13-year-old wunderkind Jim Shooter ushered in the writing (and storyboarding, the large-panel style of which is noticeably different from the norm) that would carry the Legion to new heights. Also included are two Superboy stories from the same era involving peripheral Legionnaries: Insect Queen and Evolvo Lad. --David Horiuchi
Product Description: Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced volume collecting tales of the 30th century teen super-team that inspired the hit animated series on the Kids WB on the CW Network. Inthis volume, The Legion faces the evil of The Legion of Super-Outlaw, Lex Luthor, Bizarro Legionnaires Dr. Regulus, and faces The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires.
disappointing ^ I bought this book because I'm a big legion fan. Although the stories were good I was very disappointed when I discovered pages 97-144 were missing as if they were never included in the book.
the underestimated legion ^ I love the legion since I was a kid here in Brazil;unfortunately they are not so regarded as the league or the titans.Showcase edition is very cheap and the volume is massive(over 500 pages)This second volume displays of the transition period when the statics drawings were replaced for the beautiful art of Curt Swain.Compute the conqueror and the super-stage of space are favorites not to mention the legionnaire who killed.If you read the recent work or see the cartoons on TV the showcase editions(one;two and the next one in 2009)could you aware of the saga and you could understand the most obscure references.The archives I bought previously were expensive(48 dollars each)and I do not miss the colors;showcase books are light as they were under the power of light lass;it is easy to have them at work and I am totally deaf to my colleagues jokes;maybe a child in you refuses to die too.
Good value ^ The Showcase volumes are a great way to get classic reprints at a very cheap price - the down side being that they are in black and white. On balance, I think it's sensible to do it that way, and the wonderful adventures of the Legion can be enjoyed by a wider audience. Of course, if you can afford it, the vibrant colours of the orignals, reproduced in the (necessarily expensive!) Archive editions, are part of the excitement.
Ah to be young and alive in the 30th Century...now with 20% more goofiness! ^ Wow! And I mean Wow! What a kooky, crazy compendium of corny, comic kvetching! A lot happens in this volume, often all at once. There isn't as much bad( and hilarious) teen drama as in the last volume, but it's made up for with break neck pacing and some seriously off-the-wall stories. The writers of record are Edmond Hamilton, Jerry Siegel, Jim Shooter and Otto Binder and in some of the stories they really push the reality envelope in order to tell a good tale. The stories, which appear almost exclusively in Adventure Comics, are longer than in previous Legion tales, often lasting several issues. I like that because it allows the stories and the Legionnaires to develop a bit more complexity. They're still world's away from today's Tolstoy-esque mega-tomes, but there are enough double-backs, false starts, fake outs and misdirection to keep things humming along nicely. Several new Legionnaires are introduced, such as Timber Wolf, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra and poor, poor Ferro Lad (sniff). There are also the Super-Pets, plenty of Super-Pets.
Here's a sampling of the tripped out world inside LSH volume 2.
**Adventure Comics # 322**The Super-Tests of the Super-Pets!-When the Legion gears up for an all out assault on The Time Trapper, they ask the Super-Pets via Saturn Girl's telepathy, to house sit their super hero clubhouse while the Legion is gone. Apparently this honor goes right to their Super-Heads because when Protty 2, Cham's pet who looks like what would happen if you microwaved the Pillsbury Dough Boy, asks to join the pet legion, the Super-Pets get all snotty and demand he(?) pass a series of impossible tests in order to join their august assemblage. The little guy shows'em good!
**Adventure Comics # 326**Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires!-The girls ruthlessly hunt down and destroy the boys in this interesting reveal of early 60's gender politics. It's Legion Girls Gone Wild!
**Adventure Comics # 328**The Lad who Wrecked the Legion!-One conceited little snot with illusory powers runs rings around the Legion. Is he just doing it because he's a jerk, or is he "possessed' of another reason? Mwahahaha
**Adventure Comics # 329**Introducing the Bizarro legionnaires!-Quote from Bizarro" Haha, Super-hero club on Earth wouldn't let me join up. But who care? Me show them! My Legion of Stupor Bizarros will be worse, more incompetent and accomplish even less then they ever did!" That pretty much sums the story up. Plus Brainy invents the Legion Flight ring.
**Adventure Comics # 332**Superboy and the Super-Moby Dick of Space!-Oh yes! It's just what it sounds like, except replace Ahab with Lightning Lad. Maybe next they'll do Silas Marner of Space!
**Adventure Comics # 335**Starfinger the 30th Century villain more dangerous than Goldfinger!-In order to help Lightning lad, Dr. Hanscom is experimenting on growing new limbs on animals. Hmmm. Anyway the Legion takes on their greatest foe yet, Starfinger, who possess the power of a specific legionnaire in each finger!
**Adventure Comics # 338**The Menace of the Sinister Super-babies!-The Time Trapper proves what a giant tool he is by the way he devolves one of his slaves into protoplasmic slime. Then he tries the same thing on the legion!
**Adventure Comics # 342**The Legionnaire Who Killed!-When the legion prosecutes Starboy for killing a villain to save his own life, it's Superboy for the defense, the Super-Defense!
This volume also features some Legion weddings, the execution of matter-Eater Lad, the Computo Saga and a bonus section showcasing all the powers and origins of every legionnaire up to that point in Legion history.
It's great Silver-Age goofiness and important Legion history, cheap at twice the price!
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