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LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES

Tenure in the
Original Legion

What follows is a detail of each Legionnaire's service record during the time before Zero Hour. All 30th century dates herein are taken from the Legion Sourcebook: 2995, except for a very few which were extrapolated from those Sourcebook dates. I set the date of Zero Hour at August 1995. Legion v.4 #1-11 (1994) are not included in anyone's memberships, as the Legion had not yet re-formed. The last official date given anywhere was 13 June 1995—when the SW6 Legionnaires were deputized.

Keep in mind that 30th Century time was quite drawn out in the middle years. Wildfire and Lightning Lad (and all other leaders) served only one-year terms as leaders, even though it covered much more real time.

The original Legion existed for approximately 23 years of 30th century time. DC published the Legion for 36.66 years. This means that every year of our time equals about 7.5 months of Legion time.

I. Membership Details

II. Service, Listed by Totals

This list shows, in descending order, who served the most, least and everything in between. Time has been converted to years months.

III. Observations

Note that the time from when the Legion re-formed up until Zero Hour was only 9 months, so Legionnaires who served in that time didn't actually accrue that much tenure from it. Another factor adding significant time to members' tenure was their service during the 5-year gap. Members like Polar Boy, Element Lad, Dawnstar, and Lightning Lass gained significant extra tenure in that time. More specifically, here are some interesting results:

• Not surprising, Colossal Boy tops the list. His unbroken tenure from his date of joining to the Legion's disbanding gives him the longest tenure of all.
• Saturn Girl beats out the other two founders, due to her rejoining towards the end of LSHv3.
• Phantom Girl out-serves Ultra Boy. Despite her death, she joined over a year before he joined.
• Laurel Gand -- #4 on the list. Funny how readily we accept her as part of continuity, often forgetting that she was a Legion v.4 retcon (a courtesy rarely extended to Kid Quantum). Nevertheless, her unbroken service record gives her over 17 years.
• Invisible Kid I served a full 8 years before his death.
• Bouncing Boy, way down the list at 4 years, 6 months. His various temporary returns (as well as Duo Damsel's) were not included in his time. Plus, he was absent for over 2 years when he first lost his powers.
• Impulse and Nightwind are the only members who joined during the 5-year gap to serve for any significant length of time. Nightwind because she was the first 5-year gap member, and Impulse because he served after the Legion re-formed.