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Publication design by Amelia Grohman. Select interior black and white reconstruction by Rick Keene. Specific Drew Moore credits are directly from Drew Moore on Gormuu's DC Archives Message Board.
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Limited Collectors' Edition #C-49 published October 1976 Notes:
This cover has a background collage (tinted brown) of the following covers: Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #312, Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files (DC, 1999 series) #1, Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 1989 series) #[nn], Legion of Super-Heroes, The (DC, 1980 series) #300, Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #219, Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #355, Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2006 series) #31, Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2006 series) #37, Legion, The (DC, 2001 series) #25, Legion, The (DC, 2001 series) #3, Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #354, All-New Collectors' Edition (DC, 1978 series) #C-55, Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #247, and Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1994 series) #80.
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Title page with just an illustration of the Legion symbol, and the indicia page.
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Table of contents, including credits and reprint sources.
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Figures from Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-49 [some flipped]; reprinted elsewhere in this book.
Adventure Comics #247 published April 1958
Adventure Comics #247 published April 1958 Notes:
First appearance of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Lightning Lad is called Lightning Boy in this story. Several other unidentified Legionnaires appear in the story. The Legionnaires are not yet in their regular costumes.
Adventure Comics #304 published January 1963 Notes:
Death of Lightning Lad. Saturn Girl elected Legion leader.
Adventure Comics #312 published September 1963 Notes:
This collection does not mention the credit for John Forte (heads) that exists for the original issue.
Adventure Comics #312 published September 1963 Notes:
The extra 1/3 page is filled with a Legion symbol.
Adventure Comics #312 published September 1963 Notes:
The extra 1/3 page is filled with a Legion symbol.
Adventure Comics #354 published March 1967Adventure Comics #355 published April 1967 Notes:
Jim describes what it was like to write the Legion as a teenager, and then to be writing it in 2008. This is accompanied by small reprints of the covers of the issues (written by Jim) that are in the next two sequences.
Adventure Comics #354 published March 1967 Notes:
Story continues in following sequence.
Adventure Comics #355 published April 1967 Notes:
Story continued from the preceding sequence.
Limited Collectors' Edition #C-49 published October 1976
Adventure Comics #367 published April 1968Limited Collectors' Edition #C-49 published October 1976
Limited Collectors' Edition #C-49 published October 1976 Notes:
This constructed set of pages is composed of panel reprints from various issues that illustrate various parts of the headquarters complex. Specifics per panel:
Superboy #212 published October 1975
The Amazing World of DC Comics #9 published November 1975page 8A; see Notes
Superboy #212 published October 1975 Notes:
This includes the extra page (8A) that was intended for Superboy #212 but cut, but later showed up in Amazing World of DC Comics, The (DC, 1974 series) #9 in black and white (first published in color in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #11).
All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 published March 1978
All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 published March 1978 Notes:
Origins and powers of all Legionnaires as of 1978, even deceased, reserves, and the Substitutes.
All-New Collectors' Edition #C-55 published March 1978 Notes:
Page-numbered as page 8 of the previous sequence.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 1-5, 12, 18-20, 26, 27, 33, 34, 41, 42, 48-55; the framing sequence of this multi-part story.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 6-11 of this multi-part story. Set roughly a year after Superboy joined the Legion. Cosmic Boy uses his magnetic eyes.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 13-17 of this multi-part story. Set around the time of Adventure Comics #341. In addition to printed credits, there is a fake signature of "FORTEST", written in the style of John Forte's signature during this era.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 18-22 of this multi-part story. Set around the time of Adventure Comics #354. Shadow Woman's statue is even deliberately miscolored Caucasian as it was in that issue.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 28-32 of this multi-part story. Set around the time of Superboy #190.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 35-40 of this multi-part story. Set around the time of Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes #245.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #300 [Direct Sales] published June 1983 Notes:
Pages numbered 43-47 of this multi-part story. Set around the time of Legion of Super-Heroes #259.
Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files #2 published June 1999 Notes:
This reprint says that it is adapted from Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1988 series) #2-6, but it's really an exact reprint of the article in the Secret Files issue. The information in both that and the Who's Who issues was extracted/edited from four years earlier from Legion of Super-Heroes, The (DC, 1980 series) #308 (February 1984). And much of the information was published in tidbits in even earlier stories, and in places such as Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #325-326 and Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1973 series) #1 (February 1973).
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The original was in black and white.
Legion of Super-Heroes #0 [Direct Sales] published October 1994 Notes:
Mark describes what it was like to write the Legion when it was rebooted in 1994, and what it was like to index the original series in 1985. This is a new article accompanied by a small cover reprint.
Legion of Super-Heroes #0 [Direct Sales] published October 1994
Legion of Super-Heroes #80 published May 1996
Legion: Secret Files #1 published January 1998 Notes:
Called "The Roll Call" in the table of contents of the original issue.
Legends of the DC Universe 80-Page Giant #2 published January 2000
The Legion #3 published February 2002 Notes:
The Interlac text translates as "THE LEGION" and "ABNETT LANNING COIPEL" (the creators).
The Legion #3 published February 2002
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #31 published August 2007 Notes:
A brief description of the 2005-2009 series. This is a new article accompanied by a cover reprint.
Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #37 [Right Side of Cover] published February 2008Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #37 [Left Side of Cover] published February 2008
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House ad for graphic novels (Kingdom Come, Identity Crisis, Crisis on Infinite Earths, and DC: The New Frontier volume 1).
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Promotional text about the contents. Located on the back cover. The covers reprinted on the front cover are also repeated here on the back cover.
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The inside front cover and inside back cover are blank pages, plus two 1/3 page fillers.
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