LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
Legion Links
Many old Legion sites are terrible! I don't list those.
Links for the the Animated Series:
- Best: Superman Homepage: Legion of Super-Heroes Episode Guide
- Kids WB: Legion of Super-Heroes
- Legion of Super Heroes TV Show at TV.com
- Wikipedia: Legion Animated
- Legion Wiki: The Cartoon
The Rest:
A
Distant Soil: Laurie Sutton's Memory Lane
Former Legion Editor, Laurie Sutton reminisces about the Great Darkness era.
The
Adventure Comics Cover Gallery (Kipp Teague)
Just that! Many of the Legion's early appearances were in Adventure Comics!
<http://www.retroweb.com/comics/adventure.html>
Ain't It Cool News: Interview with Mark Waid
Waid elaborates on the circumstances surrounding the creation of the "Threeboot"
Legion.
Bits
o' Legionnaire Business
Has fantastically fun fan pages including Legion
Action Figures
Comic Book
Resources articles:
- Building a Bright Future: Artist Olivier Coipel Talks Legion (11 March 2002)
- Time Trappers: Abnett & Lanning talk Legion and Help new fans get up to speed (18 March 2002)
- The Secret Origin That Wasn't: How Paul Levitz Tried to Save the Pre-Crisis Supergirl From Death (19 November 2002)
- Back to the Future: Mark Waid Talks Legion of Super-Heroes (3 December 2004)
- The New Legion World: Barry Kitson Talks Legion of Super-Heroes (27 December 2004)
- Bruce Timm Careen Retrospective and "Legion of Superheroes" Cartoon (28 July 2006)
- James Tucker Grabs a Flight Ring to Make "Legion of Super Heroes" Soar (6 October 2006)
- "Legion" Producer James Tucker finds a "Message in a Bottle" (30 November 2007)
- Geoff Johns Thinking Big in the DCU, Part 2 (10 January 2008)
- Producer James Tucker looks bak on "Legion of Super-Heroes" (9 April 2008)
- Shooter Dishes on Legion Demise (29 October 2008)
- Tony Bedard Cries a R.E.B.E.L.S. Yell (20 November 2008)
- Geoff Johns Talks Legion of Smallville (21 November 2008)
- Mark Waid Chat Transcript (12 December 2008)—finally reveals his thoughts on the Threeboot
- Reflections: Tony Bedard (10 February 2009)
- This Ain’t Your Father’s Starro: Tony Bedard on R.E.B.E.L.S. (12 May 2009)
- James Robinson: Writer Without a Superman (13 May 2009)
- Francis Manapul’s Big “Adventure” (8 September 2009)
- Bringing "R.E.B.E.L.S." To The Masses (14 October 2009)
- Levitz Serves Duty With "Legion," Gets Dirty With Vertigo By Kiel Phegley (4 February 2010)
- Tony Bedard Gets Green Light by Jeffrey Renaud (22 February 2010)
DarkMark's
Comics Indexing Domain!: Superboy Index
A great barebones list in the style of the official 1980s' Index
series.
<http://darkmark6.tripod.com/legionind.html>
DC
Comics Message Boards: The Legion
The Official DC Comics discussion forum.
Fanzing
Issue #35 covering the Legion
This online zine is now archival, but stores awesome fan fiction and
artwork!
Francis
Manapul @ Blogspot
The Threeboot artist's blog
Get
a Life-Boy's Legion of Super-Heroes Site
Get a life indeed!
This site rivals my own in insane investigative comic-digging. Includes
great stuff like a story index, alternate-universe Legions, "lost
issues" from the five-year gap and a Legion Cruiser history!
INTERLAC
Home Page (Kevin Gould)
This page represents Interlac an Amateur Press Association (APA)
of Legion fanzines. Very old school.
<http://members.aol.com/interlac/>
io9: Paul Levitz Returns To The Future With Legion of Super-Heroes(January 2010)
It's OK I'm a Senator
Navigate to find a host of recollections by Legion volume 4 writer,
Tom Bierbaum.
KC Carlson Column: LLL! The former Legion editor speaks.
The
Keith Giffen Resource Page
This page has an amazing
interview with Keith Giffen from around the time of Legion v.3
#50 — a rarity in those times before the Interweb.
<http://www.mikejozic.com/giffrespage/comicsandfandom88.html>
The Legion Clubhouse
Great new site with news about the animated series. Also contains
the new
Legion
Wiki database!
<http://www.legionclubhouse.com>
The
Legion of Simpson Heroes!
Speaks for itself.
<http://www.monkeyspit.net/rantman/losh.php>
The
Legion of Super-Heroes
This site is a hidden gem honoring the Adventure era. It's got some
great scans from those issues and fun profiles to read. <http://members.shaw.ca/legion_of_super-heroes>
Legion
of Super-Heroes Help-File (Chaim Keller)
Over 1842 Legion-related entries and topics for pre-Zero Hour and reboot
Legions, in a Windows Help file interface. Full search capabilities for
info on the Legionnaires, supporting characters and villains. Someone
should "webify" this.
<http://omega.animefringe.com/lshhlp/>
The
Legion of Super-Heroes Online Companion
This contains brief information on the Legion's Adventure Comics days.
<http://www.legiononline.net/volume1/main.html>
The
Legion Omnicom
The. Best. Legion Blog. <http://adventure247.blogspot.com/>
The
Legion Outpost 2 Zine (John Censullo)
Download Word files of the exhaustive Legion resource. Hidden gems! <http://www.infiniteearths.org/LSH/outpost2.htm>
This site was inspired by the old Legion fanzine, the Outpost, some of
which has been collected in print as...
The
Legion Companion, Glen Cadigan, Two Morrows Publishing (2003).
The story behind the stories.
Legion "Photo Manipulations"—some enterprising people take it upon themselves to recreate super-heroes in a more 3D form:
- 3DHeroes.com: Legion, featuring original 3D drafts
- The Art of Mark Hearn, true photomanipulations
- Heaven4Heroes.com, featuring real-life Legion sculptures
- A Legion "movie poster"
- DC Message Boards: Legion Images, in this thread, people have posted dozens of great Legion art and ephemera. (I have also edited and archived the thread)
The
Legion Wiki
A Wikipedia-like resource for all things Legion.
Legion World
Special Legion-only Message Boards.
<http://www.legionworld.net>
Legotures
Renderings of the Legionnaires in Lego!
LLL!
Legends of Lost Legionnaires
Articles mostly about the "v.4" Legion, after the Five Year
Gap.
http://www.speakeasy.org/~mohundro/lsh/
Mike
and Nirah's Custom Figures! (Mike Nowak)
Lots of custom-made Legion action figures.
<http://rocinante.colorado.edu/~mnowak/LEGION/legion.html>
Newsarama Articles:
- The Legion: Turning 45 with #25 (19 September 2003)
- Champagne for the Legion: Keith Champagne on Legion #34 (17 May 2004)
- The Legion is Dead, Long Live the Legion: Waid & Kitson on the Legion's Restart (26 May 2004)
- J. Torres on the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century (15 January 2007)
- Francis Manapul in the Future - and on DC's Legion (10 August 2007)
- Journey into Comics: Legion Season 2 (1 September 2007)
- Jim Shooter Returns to DC's Legion of Super-Heroes (6 September 2007)
- Keith Giffen on DC/Wildstorm: Dreamwar (17 January 2008)
- Geoff Johns Re-Ups with DC Comics (7 February 2008)
- Geoff Johns: Legion of 3 Worlds, Part 1 + Part 2 (2 April 2008)
- George Pérez on Legion of 3 Worlds, Part 1 + Part 2 (4 April 2008)
- NYCC '08: The Legion of Super-Heroes Panel (23 April 2008)
- Spoiler Sport: Geoff Johns on Legion of 3 Worlds #1 (25 August 2008)
- Legion of Super-Heroes Ends With #50 (29 September 2008)
- Geoff Johns: On Returns and Rebirths (12 May 2009)
- Tony Bedard Talks R.E.B.E.L.S. & the Conqueror (30 July 2009)
- Legion Blogpost: The Third Coming of Paul Levitz (9 September 2009)
- Paul Levitz Prepares for a Legion of DC Writing Assignments (3 February 2010)
Paul
and John Review (blog)
Paul and John have written a fantastic series of articles on Legion Rejects:
Part
1 • Part
2 • Part
3 • Part
4 • Part
5 • Part
6 • Part
7 • Part
8 • Part
9 • Part
10 • Part
11 • Part
12
The
Pocket Universe Primer (Aaron Severson)
An exhaustive look at this continuity mess.
<http://members.surfbest.net/argentium@surfbest.net/main.htm>
Superman
Homepage: Legion of Super-Heroes Episode Guide
Oddly, this web site has one of the best sections for DC's
cartoons.
TV.com:
Legion of Super Heroes
For information on the cartoon.
Welcome to the
30th Century: The Legion
Lots of fun ephemera here, including scans of rarities and post-Zero Hour cover
scans and indexing.
Wikipedia: Legion • Legion Animated
WizardUniverse articles:
The
WOMP-Blog (John Mundt)
A month-long blog about the Legion's members, March 2006.
<http://www.johnmundtesquire.com/files/March_2006_WOMP-Blog.htm>
The
World's
Finest:
Tucker Discusses "Legion of Super Heroes" History & Finale, by
James Harvey (4 April 2008)
Torres
Discusses His Run on Legion of Super Heroes
In The 31st Century, by James Harvey (17 September
2008)
More DCU links can be found in my master list.