The Legion (comics)
| Legion of Super-Heroes | |
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The Legion of Super-Heroes, with their allies and enemies.
Art by Phil Jimenez. |
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| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #0 (October 1994) |
| Created by |
Mark Waid & Tom McCraw (writers) Stuart Immonen (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | Legion headquarters Legion World |
| Roster | |
| See: List of Legion of Super-Heroes members | |
| Legion of Super-Heroes | |
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Cover of Legion of Super-Heroes, vol. 4, #0 (October 1994). Art by Stuart Immonen & Ron Boyd. |
| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series, Limited series |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Publication date |
(Legion of Super-Heroes, vol. 4) October 1994 – May 2000 (Legionnaires) October 1994 – May 2000 (Legion Lost) May 2000 – April 2001 (The Legion) December 2001 – October 2004 |
| Number of issues |
Vol. 4: 66 Legionnaires: 66 Legion Lost: 12 The Legion: 38 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Mark Waid Tom McGraw Dan Abnett Andy Lanning |
| Penciller(s) | Lee Moder Jason Armstrong Scott Kolins Olivier Coipel |
| Inker(s) | Ron Boyd |
| Colorist(s) | Tom McCraw |
| Creator(s) |
Mark Waid & Tom McCraw (writers) Stuart Immonen (artist) |
The 1994 version of the Legion of Super-Heroes (also called the Post-Zero Hour or Reboot Legion) is a fictional superhero team in the 31st century of the DC Universe. The team is the second incarnation of the Legion of Super-Heroes, following after the 1958 version, and was followed by the 2004 rebooted version. It first appeared in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #0 (October 1994) and was created by Mark Waid, Tom McCraw and Stuart Immonen.
Following Zero Hour, a new Legion continuity was created, beginning with a retelling of the origin story starting in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 4) #0 and then continued in spin-off sister series Legionnaires #0 (both released in October 1994). Lightning Lad was renamed Live Wire, and after the group's founding, a large number of heroes were added to the roster very quickly. Several members from the previous continuity were given new codenames, and some new heroes were added, including XS (the granddaughter of Barry Allen, the second Flash), Kinetix, and Gates.
While in some ways following the pattern of the original continuity, the new continuity diverged from the old one in several ways: some characters died as they had previously, others did not, and some Legion members spent time in the 20th century where they recruited Ferro. The Legion also started out having to earn the respect of the United Planets, which they did through two well-earned victories: successfully defending Earth from the White Triangle Daxamites, a group of Nazi-style racial purists; and exposing United Planets President Chu as the mastermind behind the Braal-Titan War, the Sun Eater hoax, the formation of the Fatal Five and the brainwashing of future Legionnaire Jan Arrah.
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