Legionnaires Annual #3

([December] 1996)

Earth is Dead (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Credits page plus a short description of what the Legends of the Dead Earth concept is about.

The Long Road Home (Table of Contents: 2)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script

Roger Stern

Pencils

Charles Wojtkiewicz (pages 10-32); Dan Jurgens (pages 33-38); Tony Castillo (pages 1-9)

Inks

John Lowe (pages 1-9); Don Hillsman (pages 10-15); Dexter Vines (pages 16-32); Ron Boyd (pages 33-38)

Colors

Tom McCraw

Letters

Pat Brosseau (pages 1-28); Albert DeGuzman (pages 29-38)

Genre

superhero

Characters

XS; Flash [Jay Garrick] (cameo); Flash [John Fox] (cameo); Cosmic Boy (flashback, cameo); Saturn Girl (flashback, cameo); Invisible Kid (flashback, cameo); Flash [Wally West] (flashback, cameo); Impulse (flashback, cameo); Iris Allen (flashback, cameo); Jesse Quick (flashback, cameo); Max Mercury (flashback, cameo); cosmic treadmill; Flash [Barry Allen]; Protectors; Avatar (intro); Metallica (intro); Behemoth (intro); Ultra-Man [Gary Concord]; Almeer-5; Spear of Destiny; Linear Men [Hunter; Liri Lee; Waverider]; Vanishing Point; Superman (cameo); Hourman [Rex Tyler] (cameo); Doctor Mid-Nite [Charles McNider] (cameo); Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson] (cameo); Atom [Al Pratt] (cameo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo) Darkstar [Donna Troy] (cameo); Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner] (cameo); Time Trapper; Wildcat [Ted Grant] (cameo); Starman [Ted Knight] (cameo)

Synopsis

In the 20th century, Flashes John Fox and Jay Garrick help XS use a cosmic treadmill to return to the 30th century. She comes up short and grandfather Barry Allen helps her on. Next is the 100th century, where non-licensed metahumans are outlawed. The Protectors capture XS and imprison her with Avatar, Metallica, Behemoth, and Ultra-Man. XS breaks them out, they fight dopplegangers and escape to Avatar's secret lab. Using the Spear of Destiny, she arrives at Vanishing Point where the Time Trapper reveals he's caused her journeys, to give her experience. He then returns XS to her home in 2995.

Indexer Notes

This is really a solo story about XS. This is the first appearance of the Gary Concord version of Ultra-Man in 56 years. Gary Concord appeared in All-American Comics from 1939 to 1940. When Gary Concord lost his parents in World War I, he vowed to eliminate war. While working towards that goal in his underground bunker, he was accidentally placed in suspended animation and revived in the 22nd century, where he picked up his struggle for world peace. Here, he was revived in the 100th century.