Legion of Super-Heroes #1

updated
4 Sep 2020
LSH #1 (2020/1)
LSH #1 (2020/1) alternate cover
LSH #1 (2020/1) alternate cover
LSH #1 (2020/1) alternate cover
Legion of Super-Heroes #1 2020/Jan
Cover Text: 

The adventures of the 31st century begin here!

"The Legion of Super-Heroes"

Story
Continuity(ies): 
Variant(s): 
Time Period(s): 
31st century

Mission Monitor Board

Blok (millennium)
Bouncing Boy (millennium)
Brainiac 5 (millennium)
Chameleon Boy (millennium)
Colossal Boy (millennium)
Computo (millennium)
Cosmic Boy (millennium)
Dawnstar (millennium)
Doctor Fate (millennium)
Dream Girl (millennium)
Element Lad (millennium)
Gold Lantern (millennium)
Karate Kid (millennium)
Light/Lightning Lass (millennium)
Lightning Lad (millennium)
Matter-Eater Lad (millennium)
Mon-El (millennium)
Monster Boy (millennium)
Phantom Girl (millennium)
Princess Projectra (millennium)
Rose Forrest (millennium)
Saturn Girl (millennium)
Shadow Lass (millennium)
Shrinking Violet (millennium)
Star Boy (millennium)
Superboy (Jon Kent) (millennium)
Timber Wolf (millennium)
Triplicate Girl (millennium)
Ultra Boy (millennium)
White Witch (millennium)
Wildfire (millennium)
X-Ray Girl

Places

• New Metropolis

Roll Call

Bits of Legionnaire Business

  • Computo AI 5 appears only on one of the alternate covers
  • The entire city of New Metropolis is Legion Headquarters
  • Crav Nah is mentioned but not pictured

Get-a-Life Boy says


  • "Frichtman tags" are an update of a device that dates back to the very first Legion story in Adventure 247 (1958)—then it was chest labels and tent cards—in a format introduced under Geoff Johns and further refined under Paul Levitz. This time around, I can't help observing that the tags would perhaps be a bit more helpful to readers if they weren't mostly obscured and backwards.
  • Bear with me on updating the Millennium Legion's symbols. It'll be a gradual process.
  • The greater physical diversity of the Legionnaires is welcome.
  • I'm seeing a lot of criticism of basing this Legion's connection to the Superman mythos on Jon Kent as Superboy. Let me say this explicitly, speaking as a Long Time Legion Fan since 1966 (that's 53 years): I love this new direction, I love the Jon Kent thing, and I heartily approve of this new Legion. I'm excited to see where it's going, and I fully intend to enjoy the ride.