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Format:
Book
Title:
Legion of super-heroes archives.
Other title(s):
Legion of superheroes archives
ISBN:
9781563890208

9781563890574

9781563891021

9781563891236

9781563891540

9781563892776

9781563893988

9781563894305

9781563895142

9781563896286

9781563897306

9781563899614

9781401234393
Publication:
New York, NY : DC Comics, 1991-2012
Physical Description:
13 volumes : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series title(s):
General Note:
Originally published in single magazine form as issues of various comic book serials.

All 13 volumes originally published in single magazine form. Volume 1: Adventure Comics #247 (1958), #267 (1959), #282 (1961), #290 (1961), #293 (1962), #300-305 (1962-1963); Action Comics #267 (1960), #276 (1961), #287 (1962), #289 (1962); Superboy #86 (1961), #89 (1961), #98 (1962); Superman #147 (1961); Superman Annual #4 (1961). Volume 2: Adventure Comics #306-317 (1963-1964); Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #72 (1963); Superman Annual #4 (1961). Volume 3: Adventure Comics #318-328 (1964-1965); Superboy #117 (1964); Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #76 (1964). Volume 4: Adventure Comics #329-339 (1965); Superboy #124-125 (1965). Volume 5: Adventure Comics #340-349 (1966). Volume 6: Adventure Comics #350-358 (1966-1967). Volume 7: Adventure Comics #359-367 (1967-1968) and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #106 (1967). Volume 8: Adventure Comics #368-376 (1968-1969) and Superboy #147 (1968). Volume 9: Action Comics #378-387 (1969-1970), #389-392 (1970) and Adventure Comics #377-380 (1969). Volume 10: Adventure Comics #403 (1971), Superboy #172-173 (1971), #176 (1971), #183-184 (1972), #188 (1972), #190-191 (1972), #193 (1973), #195 (1973), #197-202 (1973-1974). Volume 11: Superboy #203-212 (1974-1975). Volume 12: Superboy #213-223 (1976-1977) and Karate Kid #1 (1976). Volume 13: Superboy #224-230 (1977); DC Special #28 (1977); Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #231-233 (1977).
Contents:
Volume 1. Foreword / Mike Gold. The origins and powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes ; The Legion of Super-Heroes ; Prisoner of the super-heroes ; The three super-heroes ; The army of living kryptonite men ; Lana Lang and the Legion of Super-Heroes ; Supergirl's three super girl-friends ; Part I: Superboy's big brother ; Part II: The secret of Mon-El ; The legion of super-villains ; The secret of the seventh super-hero ; The legion of super-traitors! ; Supergirl's greatest challenge ; Superman's super-courtship ; The boy with ultra-powers ; The face behind the lead mask ; The secret origin of Bouncing Boy ; Sunboy's last power ; The fantastic spy ; The stolen super-powers ; The secret of the mystery legionnaire ; Volume 2. Foreword / Paul Levitz. The Legion of substitute heroes ; The secret power of the mystery super-hero ; The return of Lightning Lad ; The legion of super monsters ; The doom of the super-heroes ; The war between the substitute heroes and the legionnaires ; The super sacrifice of the legionnaires ; The world of doomed Olsens ; The condemned legionnaires ; The super-villains of all ages ; The legionnaires' super-contest - The renegade super-hero ; The menace of dream girl ; The origin and powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes ; Volume 3. Foreword / Harry Broertjes. The legion constitution ; The mutiny of the legionnaires ; Elastic Lad Jimmy and his legion romances ; The legion's suicide squad ; The revenge of the knave from Krypton ; The code of the legion ; The super-tests of the super-pets ; The eight impossible missions ; The legion of super outlaws ; Lex Luthor meets the Legion of Super-Heroes ; Revolt of the girl legionnaires ; Superboy and the five legion traitors ; The lone wolf legionnaire ; The lad who wrecked the legion ; Volume 4. Foreword / KC Carlson. The bizarro legion ; Secret of the mystery legionnaire ; The triumph of the super-villains ; The super Moby Dick of space ; The war between Krypton and Earth ; The unknown legionnaire ; Starfinger ; The true identity of Starfinger ; The insect queen of Smallville ; The weddings that wrecked the legion ; The menace of the sinister super babies ; The sacrifice of kid psycho ; Hunters of the super-beasts. Volume 5. Foreword / Mark Waid. The origin and powers of the Legion of Super-Heroes ; Computo the conqueror ; The weirdo legionnaire ; The legionnaire who killed ; The evil hand of the luck lords ; The super stalag of space ; The execution of matter-eater lad ; One of us is a traitor ; The traitor's triumph ; Target legionnaires ; The rogue legionnaire ; Volume 6. Foreword / Roger Stern. The outcast super-heroes ; The forgotten legion ; The fatal five ; The doomed legionnaire ; The adult legion ; The war of the legions ; The six-legged legionnaire ; The five legion orphans ; The ghost of Ferro Lad ; The hunter.

Volume 7. Foreword / Tom Peyer. The outlawed legionnaires ; The legion of chain gang ; The unkillables ; The lone wolf legionnaire report - The chemoids are coming ; Black day for the legion ; The revolt of the super-pets ; Escape of the fatal five ; The fight for the championship of the universe ; No escape from the circle of death ; Volume 8. Foreword / Paul Levitz. The mutiny of the super-heroines ; The origin of the legion ; Mordru the merciless ; The devil's jury ; The colossal failure ; When Superboy walked out on the Legion ; School for super-villains ; The Tornado Twins ; Mission: diabolical ; The king of the legion ; The execution of Chameleon Boy ; Volume 9. Foreword / KC Carlson. Heroes for hire ; Twelve hours to live ; Burial in space ; The Legion's space odyssey ; The forbidden fruit ; One of us is an impostor ; Half a legionnaire ; The hapless hero ; Kill a friend to save a world ; Chameleon Boy's secret identity ; Lament for a legionnaire ; The fallen Star Boy ; Zap goes the Legion ; One hero too many ; The mystery legionnaire - The tyrant and the traitor ; The ordeal of Element Lad ; The legionnaires who never were ; Volume 10. Foreword / Dave Cockrum. Fashion from fans ; Diagram of Legion headquarters complex ; Brotherly hate ; Trust me or kill me ; Invisible invader ; War of the wraith-mates ; One legionnaire must go ; Curse of the blood crystals ; Murder the leader ; Attack of the sun-scavenger ; War between the nights and days ; One-shot hero ; Timber wolf: dead hero, live executioner ; The fatal five who twisted time ; The gun that mastered men ; The impossible target ; The legionnaire of bride Starfinger ; The betrayer from beyond ; The silent death ; Lost: a million miles from home ; The lore of the Legion ; The wrath of devilfish ; Volume 11. Foreword / Mike Grell. Massacre by remote control - The legionnaire nobody remembered ; Brainiac 5's secret weakness ; The legion of super-executioners ; Meet Iron Mike Grell ; Lore of the legion ; The legionnaires who haunted Superboy ; Welcome home daughter, now die ; The rookie who betrayed the Legion ; Lightning Lad's day of dread ; Vengeance of the super-villains ; The legion of substitute heroes ; Who can save the princess? ; Hero for a day ; Soljer's private war ; The lair of the black dragon ; The ultimate revenger ; The Legions' lost home ; Last fight for a legionnaire ; A death stroke at dawn; Volume 12. Foreword / Mike Flynn. The jaws of fear ; Trapped to live, free to die ; No price too high ; Stay small or die ; The final eclipse of Sun Boy ; The hero who wouldn't fight ; My world begins in yesterday ; The hero who hated the Legion ; The private lives of Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel ; The charge of the doomed legionnaires ; Future shock for Superboy ; The secret villain the world never knew ; The plunder ploy of the fatal five - - The super soldiers of the slave-maker ; Dream Girl's living nightmare ; The trillion dollar trophies ; This legionnaire is condemned ; Death of a legend ; We can't escape the trap in time ; Volume 13. Foreword / Paul Levitz. When Stargrave strikes ; And who shall lead them? ; A matter of priorities ; The dazzling debut of Dawnstar ; Five against one ; War at world's end ; That a world might live...a legionnaire must die ; Hunt for a hero-killer ; The city that stopped dead ; The creature who conned the Legion ; The day Bouncing Boy bounced back ; A day in the death of a world ; The disease that wouldn't die ; The infinite man who conquered the Legion ; The final illusion.
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