The new series launches this week — so we check out what’s arguably the Legion’s greatest era…
The Legion of Super-Heroes returns in full Wednesday, thanks to Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire and, of course, DC.
On the eve of the lead-up series Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium, we showed off 13 COVERS spotlighting the Legion in the Silver Age. (Click here.)
Now, we bring you to the Bronze Age, which many fans consider the team’s greatest period.
Dig it.
Mike Grell
Nick Cardy
Keith Giffen
Dick Giordano
Cardy
Grell
George Perez
Giordano
Grell
Perez
Giordano
Jam cover. Click here for the credits.
Giffen pencils, Larry Mahlstedt inks
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MORE
— 13 COVERS: The LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES in the Silver Age. Click here.
— LONG LIVE THE LEGION: Back to the Future With PAUL LEVITZ. Click here.
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Covers and credits courtesy of the upbeat Grand Comics Database.
November 5, 2019
I’m pretty stoked to read the new “Legion of Super-Heroes” series! 🙂
November 5, 2019
The Cardy and Grell covers in the .20 cent era are some of the best. Great memories picking these out of the spinner racks.
November 5, 2019
That Grell cover for the Treasury Edition is fabulous!
November 6, 2019
The Treasury Edition had a “group photo” spread in the back featuring all Legionnaires past and present (circa 1977), plus Legion of Substitute Heroes members, Legion Reservists, etc. I memorized the illustration and used to make my brother drill me on the positions of each character in the array. I’m not much of a Grell fan anymore, but I was a HUGE fan of his Legion and (pre-Longbow Hunters) Green Arrow stories, including his stint on the short-lived late-70s revival of Green Lantern-Green Arrow.
November 6, 2019
The greatest period was the 60s. “Many fans” think the Bronze Age was the best? Only those who grew up in that era.