Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years

([July] 2011)

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years (Table of Contents: 1)

Legion of Super-Heroes / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe

Inks

Marlo Alquiza ?; Marc Deering ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy [Clark Kent]

Indexer Notes

Frontispiece. Illustrated with a detail from the story from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #12 / 515.

Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Early Years (Table of Contents: 2)

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe

Inks

Marlo Alquiza ?; Marc Deering ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Superboy [Clark Kent]; Colossal Boy; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy

Indexer Notes

Title page. Illustrated with several panels from the story from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #12 / 515.

[Publication Data] (Table of Contents: 3)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited) (signed as SC (inset))

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty) (signed as Dave B)

Colors

Hi-Fi (signed as *); ?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Colossal Boy; Triplicate Girl; Invisible Kid [Lyle Norg]; Cosmic Boy; Brainiac 5; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Phantom Girl]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #12 / 515 [12 Cover] (August 2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Lee Bermejo (credited)

Inks

Lee Bermejo (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Colossal Boy; Phantom Girl; Element Lad; Saturn Girl; Star Boy]; Darkseid

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #12 / 515 [515 Cover] (August 2010)

Indexer Notes

An homage to the cover of The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #294 by Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt. The Legionnaires are in costumes from various eras of Legion history.

Playing Hooky (Table of Contents: 6)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 30 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe (credited)

Inks

Marlo Alquiza (credited); Marc Deering (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Brainiac 5; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy; Colossal Boy; Phantom Girl; Triplicate Girl; Chameleon Boy; Lightning Lad; Invisible Kid [Lyle Norg]]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; R. J. Brande; Lex Luthor (statue); Mongul (statue); Metallo (statue); Jimmy Olsen (statue); Doomsday (statue); Darkseid (statue)

Synopsis

Back in the late 20th century, Superboy (Clark Kent) plays hooky from school to join his new friends in the Legion of Super-Heroes and do things he can't do at home in Smallville.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #12 / 515 (August 2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited) (signed as SC (inset))

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty) (signed as Dave B)

Colors

Hi-Fi (signed as *); ?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Cosmic Boy]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #516 [Direct Sales] (September 2010)

Brande Speaks (Table of Contents: 8)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe (credited)

Inks

Marlo Alquiza (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Travis Lanham (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Brainiac 5; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy]; R. J. Brande; Pheebes; Marla Latham (unindentified); Circadia Senius

Synopsis

The adult Legion brings Superboy to the future to watch a holo left behind by R. J. Brande in which he details how he came to create the Legion as a vehicle for inter-planetary unity.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #516 (September 2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited) (signed as SC (inset))

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty) (signed as Dave B)

Colors

Hi-Fi (credited) (signed as *)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #517 [Direct Sales] (October 2010)

Saturn Rising (Table of Contents: 10)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe (credited)

Inks

Marlo Alquiza (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Travis Lanham (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lad]; Brainiac 5; Sgt. Esquivel; Zaryan (behind the scenes); Lt. Zendak (off-panel); Superboy [Clark Kent] (hologram)

Synopsis

Back when the Legion consisted of just the founders, the three heroes work with the Science Police to stop Zaryan from raiding robot manufacturers. Though all three show their inexperience, Saturn Girl decides she has to work to hold her own in physical confrontations alongside the boys. After the mission ends in tragedy and after an indiscretion, Saturn Girl makes two more decisions that will have an impact on her future.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #517 (October 2010)

Indexer Notes

The Legion confronted Zaryan in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #304. Lt. Zendak will rise to the rank of Chief by the time of The Legion of Super-Heroes Annual (DC, 1982 series) #1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited) (signed as SC (inset))

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty) (signed as Dave B)

Colors

Hi-Fi (signed as *); ?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy [Clark Kent]; Doomsday (statue)

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #518 [Direct Sales] (November 2010)

Whispers of Doom (Table of Contents: 12)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe (credited)

Inks

Marlo Alquiza (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Ultra Boy; Sun Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Phantom Girl; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Brainiac 5]; Zaryan; Waphan; Nura Nal; Beren; Doomsday (statue); Lex Luthor (statue); Bizarro (statue); Cyborg Superman (statue); Mongul (statue)

Synopsis

The Legion intercepts information on Zaryan's next target and confronts him in the skies above Naltor. Below, Nura Nal has a vision in which she sees a Legionnaire die. Back on Earth, Phantom Girl tells Superboy about rumors of a ghost in the new headquarters before he heads off to the Superman Museum where he hears a voice urging him to return home.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #518 (November 2010)

Indexer Notes

Nura Nal will later meet and even later join the Legion as Dream Girl.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited)

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty)

Colors

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Cosmic Boy; Brainiac 5]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #519 [Direct Sales] (December 2010)

Playing Hooky II (Table of Contents: 14)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Eduardo Pansica (credited)

Inks

Eber Ferreira (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Invisible Kid; Shrinking Violet; Brainiac 5; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Superboy [Clark Kent]]; Zaryan; Brainiac probe; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang

Synopsis

While a stealthy trio of Legionnaires nearly captures Zaryan, Brainiac 5 takes the founders to Superboy's Smallville for his own secret purposes.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #519 (December 2010)

Indexer Notes

Story features the first mission of what would become the Legion Espionage Squad. Zaryan's henchman uses a freeze ray like the one that will seemingly kill Lightning Lad in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #304.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

Legion of Super-Heroes / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Scott Clark (credited) (signed as SC (inset))

Inks

Dave Beaty (credited as David Beaty) (signed as Dave B)

Colors

Hi-Fi (signed as *)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Ultra Boy; Sun Boy; Brainiac 5; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl]

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #520 [Direct Sales] (January 2011)

Tragedy: The Death of Lightning Lad (Table of Contents: 16)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Levitz (credited)

Pencils

Kevin Sharpe (credited)

Inks

Marlo Alquiza (credited)

Colors

Blond (credited)

Letters

Steve Wands (credited as swands)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Clark Kent]; Ultra Boy; Mon-El; Chamleleon Boy; Sun Boy; Phantom Girl; Colossal Boy; Bouncing Boy; Brainiac 5; Invisible Kid [Lyle Norg]; Star Boy; Phantom Girl; Triplicate Girl; Saturn Girl; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Cosmic Boy; Matter-Eater Lad; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad]; Lieutenant Zendak

Synopsis

While the rest of the team goes after Zaryan's remaining forces in the wake of Lightning Lad's death, Saturn Girl reflects on the decisions she made that resulted in that death, and the path ahead of her.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 2009 series) #520 (January 2011)

The Secret Origin of Superboy and the Legion! (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Legion of Super-Heroes / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)