Your favorite version of Legion of Super Heroes

[Mark Trail]

Not my first-ever comic, but my first LEGION comic was the issue before yours: Superboy 203, which was Mike Grell's first issue on pencils and where Invisible Kid gets killed by Validus.

That might’ve been my first or close to my first. That comic book was a big deal to my young mind because of the fact that a hero could actually die in comic book.

[Jim Kelly]

My first issue of ADVENTURE COMICS featuring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Except it actually featured Superman and the Adult Legion.



My first issue where the Legion of Super-Heroes was a back-up feature in SUPERBOY.



My first Baxter book starring THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES.



The thing about the Baxter books was you were supposed to get these big star artists (Perez, Ordway, Giffen), which justified the deluxe printing and the higher cover price. Yet none of those mega-stars stuck around for very long. However, I think this Baxter run was very consistent as far as the writing from Levitz.

[The no face guy]

Levitz/Keith Giffen is pretty much the gold standard for the Legion of Super Heroes.

Timeline reboots killed the Legion. I remember being furious when they rebooted them as young pre teens. I can't remember when that was, but I haven't followed the Legion since.

[Robotman]

Definitely the Levitz/Giffen LoS. That’s one of my favorite teams of all time. I have a really hard time getting into other versions. Though I loved what Johns did with that lineup in Superman and the Legion of Superheroes.

[Thirteen]

Current Bendis Legion (THIS IS NOT A LSH BOOK)

How is it not?

All things Levitz/Giffen get my vote. I actually consider the 5YL Legion to be an extension of that run (at least in the beginning until Giffen departed writing)

[married guy]

I actually voted for the Zero Hour reboot.
Now Levitz and Giffen are obviously the benchmark, but I thought the Zero Hour reboot was really well done.
While not perfect, it was FAR superior to anything that came after and when at it's best was up there with the best of 'em.

[caj]

I actually consider the 5YL Legion to be an extension of that run (at least in the beginning until Giffen departed writing)

I separated it because of issues 4 & 5 where they basically created a new timeline and swapped Superboy with Lar Gand as being the inspiration for the Legion (and swapping Supergirl with Laurel Gand). To me, it was a reboot in doing that.

[Sutekh]

Levitz/Keith Giffen is pretty much the gold standard for the Legion of Super Heroes.

Timeline reboots killed the Legion. I remember being furious when they rebooted them as young pre teens. I can't remember when that was, but I haven't followed the Legion since.

If the Reboot had dealt more with the newer characters, Kid Quantum II and Kinetix and Shikari and Dragonmage and GEAR and XS and Computo, I think I would have been far more intrigued.

Meeting yet new versions of Lightning Lad and Brainy and Dreamy and Shady boot after boot after boot just gets so darn tired. Either I liked the old Dawnstar, and don't want your hot new take on her with Songbird-esque solid light wings, or I didn't like the old Dawnstar, and even more don't want a hot new take on her.

Seriously, what's the target demographic here? People who don't like the *actual* Legion of Super-Heroes, but will buy a book that says 'Legion of Super-Heroes' on the title because Brian Bendis is writing it?

That's a whole lot of work for Ryan Sook to draw every month, when all Brian Bendis needs to do is put his name on the cover to attract the same demo of 'people who will buy anything with his name on it.'

[Tangent. There's a Thracian moon-goddess of the hunt named Bendis. This amuses me. I want Bendis to write a story about Bendis, or some mortal empowered by Bendis, or something!]

[caj]

This was my first issue of Legion to read. However, I've been fortunate to have collected issues that go all the way back to Adventure Comics.

[OBrianTallent]

My favorite version is the Levitz/Griffen era legion. Ihave stuck it out through every reboot of the Legion and found something to enjoy about it, even when they removed Dawnstar, my favorite legionnaire. However I just can't get into the bendisboot Legion. Its a pretty book when Sook draws it, but thats about it.

[Zero Hunter]

My order is Levitz/Giffen then Giffen/Bierbaum (5YL...) and finally the Zero Hour Reboot. After that you have the Johns Retroboot, Silver Age, Levitz's Nu52 2nd run, Waid/Kitson, and finally Bendis in dead last.

[The Darknight Detective]

It's definitely the Levtiz/Giffen era for me. Especially the early stuff like the Great Darkness Saga. I do love the DnA run a lot too, and some of the other stuff.

I picked the '70s era due to nostalgia's sake, but the Great Darkness Saga is easily my favorite Legion story.

[HandofPrometheus]

Zero Hour Reboot for me. I want to read Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen plus Baxter book but don't know where to start.

[caj]

Zero Hour Reboot for me. I want to read Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen plus Baxter book but don't know where to start.

My two cents - start with Legion of Super Heroes #287. It's the first full issue where Giffen is the main artist and it's a good starting off point just a few issues before The Great Darkness Saga.



or

Get the Trade Paper Back that has the beginning of Paul Levitz's 2nd run on Legion. I think it has issues #284 - 296.

[Zero Hunter]

Zero Hour Reboot for me. I want to read Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen plus Baxter book but don't know where to start.

The one thing that always makes me mad looking at DCs treatment of the Legion is just how much of what almost everyone considers the best Legion stuff is not collected. Barely any of the Baxter series is collected in trades. For being considered the best Legion writer there are a good 60 or 70 issues written by Levitz uncollected. It makes it look even worse when somerhing like the Waid threeboot was all collected when it is no where near as good.