So when Saturn Girl, Lightning Boy (later “Lad”) and Cosmic Boy showed up in late 1950s Smallville and announced they were from a teenage superhero club 1,000 years in the future, it’s unlikely anyone at the DC offices expected newspaper columnists to be writing about them 61 years later. “Throwaway story” isn’t as much of an insult as it sounds in those days, DC didn’t pay much attention to its on-page history - what today is called “continuity” - and every story was seen as disposable. The LSH first appeared in 1958, with a throwaway story in “Adventure Comics,” then headlined by Superboy. But that enthusiasm launched one of the earliest, pre-internet fan organizations, and it still smolders today. The Legion isn’t among DC’s best-known properties, and its existence is more a testament to fan enthusiasm than editorial planning. And judging by the reaction on the internet, it’s going to make a legion of readers pretty happy. DC Comics is reviving the Legion of Super-Heroes with some pretty big names.
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