ComicBinding.com » Keith Giffen https://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 Classic Era https://comicbinding.com/mapping/legion-of-super-heroes-the-classic-era https://comicbinding.com/mapping/legion-of-super-heroes-the-classic-era#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:35:48 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=4643 After working on the Legion reboot, I wanted to work backwards, but knew that the odds of going all the way back to the beginning was rather slim, so I started breaking it up into smaller eras. If I go any farther back, I will use the Archives, and continue from there.

This run, which is the second and more famous run by Paul Levitz, started in Legion of Super-Heroes (volume two), which is the series that continued from Superboy and Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. In 1984, that series became Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes, as Legion of Super-Heroes (volume three) was launched. Tales ran new stories for a year before it started reprinted volume 3. Unlike it’s counterpart in the New Teen Titans franchise, Tales of the LOSH stories took place concurrently with the relaunched Baxter series (so named due to the type of paper it was printed on.) Do not be confused by the last page of #325, which was a glorified ad to hype up the beginning of the reprints coming in the following issue.

Volume 1 – The Future is Forever
Legion (volume 2) #284-289
Legion Annual #1
Legion (volume 2) #290-300
DC Comics Presents #59
Legion (volume 2) #301-303
Legion Annual #2
Legion (volume 2) #304-313
Tales of the Legion #314-315
Tales of the Legion #314-316 (backups)

I used the Great Darkness Saga and The Curse TPBs published in 2014, only having to insert the DCP and Tales issues. This allowed for a thinner book with better paper. If I were binding the originals, this would likely get split up into two volumes. Annual #3 is moved to its proper place in the next volume. DC Comics Presents #43 is a teamup written by Levitz that goes near the beginning of this run, but I have opted to skip it for now. If I bind the era before this, it will go there.

Volume 2 – Shadows of the Past
Legion (volume 3) #1-2
Legion (volume 2) Annual #3
Legion (volume 3) #3
Tales of the Legion #316-317
Legion (volume 3) #4-6
Tales of the Legion #318-319
Legion (volume 3) #7
Tales of the Legion #320
Legion (volume 3) #8
Tales of the Legion #321
DC Comics Presents #80
Legion (volume 3) #9
Tales of the Legion #322-323

Volume 3 – Business Decisions
Legion (volume 3) #10-11
Legion of Substitute Heroes #1
Tales of the Legion #324 (backup)
Tales of the Legion #324-325
Legion (volume 3) #12-15
Legion (volume 3) Annual #1
Legion (volume 3) #16-18
Legionnaires Three #1-4

Volume 4 – New Order
Legion (volume 3) #19-26
Booster Gold #8-9
Legion (volume 3) #27
Legion (volume 3) Annual #2
Legion (volume 3) #28-35

Volume 5 – Trapped by Time
Cosmic Boy #1-4
Legion (volume 3) #36-37
Superman #8
Action Comics #591
Legion (volume 3) #38-39
Legion (volume 3) Annual #3
Legion (volume 3) #40-50

Volume 6 – The Magic Wars
Legion (volume 3) #51-52
Legion (volume 3) Annual #4
Legion (volume 3) #53-63

Chronology
Classic Era
Glorithverse
Reboot Era
Prime Era
Retro Era

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