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| Introduction
Now we come to the part of this zine that
most of you have been waiting for — that is, the party you would have
been waiting for if you knew it was coming. Jerry has asked
me to run something through Interlac which otherwise would
not see the light of day, and I think that would have been
a shame. What follows on the next fourteen pages is a story
that was written and drawn for the Secret Origins mag,
revealing for the first time anywhere, the origin of the
Legion Clubhouse. You know, the dopey upside-down rocket.
That this tale had never been told before was a surprise to me — it
seems like a natural . According to Jerry, Mark Waid courageously
put it through channels, knowing it might cause trouble
with the continuity police. A new page was even substituted
in order to reconcile it (half-heartedly) with Byrne continuity,
but it wasn't enough. The Superman editor got the story
killed. Jerry has since written a new origin with a completely
different premise to be drawn by Curt Swan and to appear
in Secret Origins #46. This then will be the only appearance
of this version. (I got the story through the continuity
checkpoint on Interstate 5 by collating it into an old
issue of F.O.O.M.) Story is by Gerard Jones, art by Kurt Schaffenberger
and Ty Templeton. The substituted page (11A) appears in an unlettered,
pencils-only form with the corresponding script on the facing page.
Enjoy culture mavens.
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