Finally, a new version of the team from Brian Michael Bendis was introduced in 2019. The pre-Crisis team was restored in continuity for the occasion. That way, all the Legions teams can co-exist.

Writer Geoff Johns changed that idea in 2008 with Final Crisis, where it was revealed that they all come from different worlds but they all interact with the main Earth’s history. It was supposed that each team represented a different possible future for DC.

In general, when a new Legion was introduced, the previous team was erased from existence, as each team occupy the same place in history. Ten years later, sales were failing and despite good reviews, the franchise was once again rebooted by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson to give us Legion of Super-Heroes Three, another original team.Īt this point, we have three incarnations of the Legion. Mark Waid, Tom McCraw, and Stuart Immonen introduced readers to a new continuity with a new Legion of Super-Heroes team. In order to reconnect with a lighter and more simple Legion, the title was rebooted for the first time in 1994. Already an artist attached to the Legion, Keith Giffen took over for a dark run with some confusing continuity elements. Next to Uncanny X-Men and New Teen Titans, the Legion of Super-Heroes became one of the biggest-selling books of the eighties, when Paul Levitz served as a writer – who would become the writer the most associated with the Legion. The Legion obtained its own regular feature in Adventure Comics #300 and had to share the spotlight for several years with Superboy until they finally had their own title in the seventies. They proved so popular that they made a return once, twice… and many more times. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino for a one-off story, the Legion is a team of young superheroes teenagers coming from the 30th Century and 31st Century. When Superboy met three teenagers and members of the Legion of Super-Heroes for the first time in Adventures Comics #247 (April 1958), he couldn’t predict how popular this young team was destined to become.

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