The Legion at its Best
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In volume 7 of DC's 12 volume run charting the Silver Age adventures of the Legion of Superheroes, we see the Legion at its first peak. By 1968, the team of teenage writer Jim Shooter, penciller Curt Swan and inker George Klein was turning out a constant stream of classic stories. Change was on the horizon, heralded in this edition by some later issue cover art by Neal Adams, but for the time being all was well with the Legion.
In this period of Legion lore, we are treated to the Legion as outlaws, the return of the Fatal Five and a brush with the Circle of Death (the first of many). In these stories we begin to see Shooter using characterisation to personalise the various members, a trait that would continue in his work up until about 1970 when the Legion was unaccountably cancelled only to be resurrected a year or so later.
These are the stories that I savoured as a young comic reader some 40 years ago and still do today with the benefit of this hardback edition. If you only buy one edition in this series, make it this one (or possibly Vol 6...)
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