ComicBinding.com » Legion of Three Worlds http://comicbinding.com A Community for Comic Binding Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Legion of Super-Heroes: The Retro Era http://comicbinding.com/mapping/legion-of-super-heroes-the-retro-era http://comicbinding.com/mapping/legion-of-super-heroes-the-retro-era#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2017 21:08:02 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=4759 After the third version of the Legion launched, Geoff Johns introduced yet another version, and eventually revealed them to be the original Legion, a few years later.  While this set of issues will be placed on most bookshelves following the “threeboot”, it pretty much continues from the Classic Era.  The two main Legion of Super-Heroes series covered are volume 6 (which started in 2010) and volume 7 (which started in 2011 as part of the New 52).

Volume 1: Legion of Three Worlds (3007-3009)
Justice League of America #8
Justice Society of America #5
Justice League of America #9
Justice Society of America #6
Justice League of America #10
Action Comics #858-864
Final Crisis:  Legion of Three Worlds #1-5

Volume 2: The Battle of Brainiac (or Last Stand of New Krypton) (3009-3010)
Adventure Comics #1-4/504-507 ( backups)
Adventure Comics #8/511
Last Stand of New Krypton #1
Supergirl #51
Superman #698
Adventure Comics #9/512
LSoNK #2
Adventure Comics #10/513
Supergirl #52
Superman #699
LSoNK #3
Adventure Comics #11/514

This volume caused a conundrum for me, as I already have a five volume New Krypton set with my Superman collection.  There really is no way to condense LSoNK down to just extract the Legion parts.  Ultimately, I realized that I already have some double dipping going on in other parts of my collection, especially with the Final Night in the reboot era, and even the Superman and the Legion arc in the previous volume.  This volume does allow me a book to just focus on the Legion, and keep reading their adventures straight through.  Some people will want to include more of the Mon-El storyline, but I think that will start cluttering up this set.

Volume 3:  Secret History (3010-3012)
Legion: Secret Origin #1-6
Adventure Comics #517
Superman: Secret Origin #2
Legion (volume 7) #0
Adventure Comics #12/515
Supergirl Annual #2
Adventure Comics #518-520
Brave and the Bold #33-34
Adventure Comics #516

Except for Adventure #516, all of this volume is flashback stories with no “present day” framing material.  I debated as to whether to make it a volume 0 or not, but I think it’s best to start with the team being reintroduced, heading to New Krypton, and then getting a history lesson before continuing with their 31st century adventures.  If it were to be a volume 0, then Adventure #516 would need to be moved to one of the surrounding volumes.

Volume 4:  Choices (3010-3011)
Legion (volume 6) #1-6
Legion (volume 6) Annual #1
Legion (volume 6) #7
Adventure Comics #521
Legion (volume 6) #8
Adventure Comics #522
Legion (volume 6) #9-10
Legion of Super Villains #1
Legion (volume 6) #11-16
Adventure Comics #523-529

Starting with #521, Adventure Comics started telling stories concurrent with the Legion series.  I determined that the best reading order for #521-522 was in publication order, while the Legion Academy arc that started in #523 fit best at the end.  The Annual is moved a little prior to publication, due to some character continuity, namely the leadership of the Legion and Dawnstar.

Volume 5:  The Last Stand (or Long Live the Legion) (3011-3013)
Legion (volume 7) #1-23

I did not see a need to follow the adventures of the team stranded in the 21st century in the Legion Lost series.

Chronology
Classic Era
Glorithverse
Reboot Era
Prime Era
Retro Era

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