Quote Originally Posted by Fromper View Post
I'm the same way. As I said above, I jumped into the Legion after Zero Hour, so that's the only version I know. I considered going back and reading some of the older Legion stuff, especially since I kept hearing how great it was, but I never knew where to start. And I always heard great things about the Great Darkness Saga, but never read it, because I always figured I should read some of the earlier stuff that leads into it first.
The Deluxe version of the Great Darkness Saga reprints the earlier stories from when Paul Levitz returned to the Legion as writer in Legion 284. The Saga doesn't begin until 290 (although there was a backup prelude story a few issues earlier), so you have 6 issues of build up to understand what happened before with Legion 284-289.

The thing is, I'm not sure if the Great Darkness Saga trade is still in print. I see it at Amazon at a higher price than normal. If you can find it, I'd grab it now because who knows when DC will reprint it.

https://www.amazon.com/Legion-Super-...2004399&sr=1-1