Weekly Report 1 January 2020

No Legion sightings this week.

Long Live the Legion!

Weekly Report 25 December 2019

Happy Holidays

Weekly Report 18 December 2019

My, What a Big Flight Ring You Have...

I've come to the conclusion that Legion flight rings have the ability to adust their own sizes.

First, there's no indication that anyone has ever asked a questions like "What size ring do you wear?"

Second, there have been occasions when flight rings have ben handed indiscriminately, as if it doesn't matter who gets which one.

Third, flight rings have been swapped in the past without any indication of sizing problems. I  particular, in Superboy #213, Black Mace took Timber Wolf's flight ring and put it on his own finger. It's hard to imagine that the two of them wore the same ring size.

For all these reasons, I conclude that Legion flight rings, like the One Ring in the Lord of the Rings movies, have the ability to adust their own sizes. It's a cool bit of future tech that's been assumed in the Legion for a long time.

Of course, in Superboy #209, "Hero For a Day," th Legion gives Flynt Brojj a flight ring which is too big for him. Wildfire says, "It's a little big for his finger...but it's the smallest spar we have." Perhaps "spares" don't have all the functions of standard rings (including the auto-size option), or perhaps there' s a minimum size for flight rings, and Flynt's finger was just too small. (The fact that Violet's ring can shrink with her to microscopic size seems to argue against this interpretation—but that might be a function of Vi's power rather than any ability of the ring.)

Weekly Report 11 December 2019

Crisis on Infinite Earths

Weekly Report 4 December 2019

The Origin and Powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes

During the 1960s, DC published three versions of this reference feature, adding pages as the Legion's ranks expanded.

The first version ran 2½ pages in Superman Annual #4 (1960):

In Adventure #316 (1964/Jan), two graphic pages were added, and the text portion expanded to a full page, for a total of 5 pages:

 

 

The third version, published in Adventure 365 (1968/Feb), changed Triplicate Girl to Duo Damsel, added two more graphic pages and upped the text to two pages, for a total of 9 pages. The text pages were edited to include characters' real names, and to correct and expand some entires (notably Duo Damsel and the Super-Pets). 

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