Sunday, February 21, 2010

Trivia Answers #44

Answers to the special road-trip edition...

  1. What did the Legion do when they used the Time Bubble for the first time?
  2. As explained in various retcon stories, they wanted to go back in time to visit Superboy and ask him to join. But they didn't want to mess things up with the Boy of Steel, so they first went back 1000 years to visit Supergirl instead. Once they were able to control their stopping points, then they went back for Superboy.
  3. Why did the Legion switch from flight belts to flight rings?
  4. Vibrex, master of vibration, disabled the Legion's flight belts (see LSH v2 #267, which takes place immediately prior to Adventure 329), so Brainiac 5 used an experimental flight ring he'd been working on, made of Element 152 that Mon-El created. (Here's a "Not Approved" look at Vibrex from Living Between Wednesdays.)
  5. What was the 11th version of the Legion Cruiser known as?
  6. Not the Mark XI, as you'd suspect (which was actually the 12th version), but the Mark 494. See Get-a-Life Boy's history of the Legion Cruiser for the details.
  7. What was the name of Captain Frake's space pirate ship?
  8. She commanded the Antares.
  9. The "Secret Origin of the LSH Clubhouse" story that introduced Fortress Lad was a last-minute replacement for a story which showed a different origin, one in which the clubhouse really was a rocket. Where did that rocket originate?
  10. As seen in a number of places, the original story had the spaceship coming from Krypton. See page 10 of the story for the details; it's a cute story and I don't want to spoil it further.
  11. What was the name of the ship that Garth Ranzz, Imra Ardeen, Rokk Krinn, and R. J. Brande were travelling on when an assassination attempt was made on Brande's life?
  12. I thought I knew the answer but I can't find my copy of Superboy 147 to double check, and the Sannings' Silver Age Legion page doesn't specify the ship's name. Was it it specified? The Legion Wiki doesn't have an entry for that story. I'll update this if someone can verify. The original story in Superboy 147 didn't say, but in a v4-era retcon, the ship's name was the Nova Express - which was also the same ship that was shown to have a fuel leak in Adventure 247 during Superboy's recruitment.
  13. What are the names of Metropolis' two Spaceports?
  14. The smaller of the two was Grand Central Spaceport, located on what is now Staten Island. It was primarily used for industrial and government traffic. The bigger, more well known one is the Metropolis Spaceport.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Mattel: "Legion’s going to be big"

Then there was this exchange at Action Figure Pics with Mattel's Toy Guru:

H: Is there anything you can tell us about Legion of Superheroes? People are dying for some Legion.

TG: Read the article in Toy Fare Magazine.

H: We did. So it’s just a matter of…what?

TG: Just…lining everything up. Legion’s going to be big.
 Anyone read ToyFare? I think it's issue #152 that just came out.

New Mon-El figure, more Tyr

Another figure revealed today at Toy Fair in NYC: Mon-El, in his World of New Krypton costume from DC Direct (Via Action Figure Pics):


And another picture of Tyr in a great closeup, by Mattel. Nicely scuplted! See four AFP photos of Wave 14 (which will be a Wal-Mart exclusive) here.

Monday, February 15, 2010

More Tyr from Toy Fair

According to Toy News International, the Tyr figure is the only Legion-related figure that was announced at Toy Fair this weekend. There's still some more news to come Monday, though. Nothing new yet for the JLU collection (except Green Lantern and Green Arrow who, technically, are Honorary Legionnaires in that Universe).

Here's a better look at the new Tyr from the TNI site:


 

Now compare that to a closeup of the original Tyr. Pretty nifty!


Sunday, February 14, 2010

Toy Fair 2010: New Tyr coming from Mattel

The MattyCollector Facebook page posted a new image taken from Today's Toy Fair in New York. Among the figures coming soon (don't know when "soon" is) will be a new Tyr figure. Mattel is remaking and reissuing the figures that came out in the 1984-85 "Super Powers" line. Among all the other cool figures, Tyr is in the lower left corner next to new Obsidian, Zatanna, and Ultra-Humanite.



 


For reference, here's the original Tyr figure from the Super Powers line.



Thursday, February 11, 2010

Legion v6 #1 cover and page 1

Via the DCU blog The Source, here's the cover to LSH v6 #1 (pencils by regular artist Yildiray Cinar, inks by Wayne Faucher, according to Cinar's site).

Yes, as the readers there pointed out, the Legion ring is upside down. But it's the OTHER ring that's interesting...



I missed mentioning this earlier, but the first page was also released last week. Cinar has the first page of issue #1 in pencils only at his site.

Trade Paperbacks this Fall

Via the DCU Blog The Source (via Bleeding Cool):

The following DC Universe titles are scheduled to arrive in stores in September:

THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: PROLOGUE TO DARKNESS TP
Writer: Paul Levitz
Artists: Pat Broderick, Keith Giffen and Bruce Patterson
Collects: THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #284-289 and THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1
$19.99 US, 208 pg

  • This bodes well for the reissue of the Great Darkness Saga TP.
 R.E.B.E.L.S: THE SON AND THE STARS TP
Writer: Tony Bedard
Artists: Claude St. Aubin, Geraldo Borges and Scott Hanna
Collects: R.E.B.E.L.S #10-14
$17.99 US, 144 pg

SHOWCASE PRESENTS: THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL. 4 TP
Writers: James Shooter, E. Nelson Bridwell and Cary Bates
Artists: Curt Swan, Win Mortimer, Jack Abel, George Tuska, Dave Cockrum and Murphy Anderson
Collects: ADVENTURE COMICS #369-380, ACTION COMICS #378-392 and SUPERBOY #172, 173, 176, 183, 184, 188, 190 and 191
$17.99 US, 512 pg
  • Next one should cover up to the point where the Archives hardcovers left off.
 SUPERMAN: MON-EL – MAN OF VALOR HC
Writer: James Robinson
Artists: Fernando Dagnino, Bernard Chang, Javier Pina and Matt Camp
Collects SUPERMAN #692-699, SUPERMAN ANNUAL #14 and SUPERMAN SECRET FILES 2009 #1
$24.99 US, 224 pg

SUPERMAN: NEW KRYPTON VOL. 2 TP
Writers: Geoff Johns, James Robinson and Sterling Gates
Artists: Renato Guedes, Pete Woods and Jamal Igle
Collects: SUPERMAN #682-683, SUPERGIRL #35-36 and ACTION COMICS #872-883
$17.99 US, 160 pg
  • Is Mon-El in this one?

The following DC Universe titles are scheduled to arrive in stores in October:

FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS TP
Writer: Geoff Johns
Artists: George Pérez and Scott Koblish
Collects: BATMAN: FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #1-3
$14.99 US, 168 pg

THE STARMAN OMNIBUS VOL. 5 HC
Writers: James Robinson, David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns
Artists: Steve Yeowell, Peter Snejbjerg, Wade von Grawbadger, Keith Champagne, Steve Sadowski, Lee Moder, Chris Weston, David Ross and others
Collects: STARMAN #47-60, 1,000,000, STARS AND S.T.R.I.P.E. #0, ALL STAR COMICS 80-PAGE GIANT #1 and JSA ALL STARS #4
$14.99 US, 464 pg
  • This one has Starman meeting the L2 reboot Star Boy and Umbra.

The following DC Universe titles are scheduled to arrive in stores in November:

SUPERMAN: LAST STAND OF NEW KRYPTON HC
Writers: James Robinson, Sterling Gates and Eric Trautmann
Artists: Pete Woods, Julian Lopez, Jamal Igle and others
Collects: SUPERMAN: LAST STAND OF NEW KRYPTON #1, ADVENTURE COMICS #8-8, SUPERMAN #698 and SUPERGIRL #51
$24.99 US, 160 pg

Trivia Quiz #44

Special road-trip edition! I just got back from a Houston to Orlando to New Orleans to Houston road trip (part of the reason I've been incommunicado) so I thought I'd have a travel-themed quiz this month.

  1. What did the Legion do when they used the Time Bubble for the first time?
  2. Why did the Legion switch from flight belts to flight rings?
  3. What was the 11th version of the Legion Cruiser known as?
  4. What was the name of Captain Frake's space pirate ship?
  5. The "Secret Origin of the LSH Clubhouse" story that introduced Fortress Lad was a last-minute replacement for a story which showed a different origin, one in which the clubhouse really was a rocket. Where did that rocket originate?
  6. What was the name of the ship that Garth Ranzz, Imra Ardeen, Rokk Krinn, and R. J. Brande were travelling on when an assassination attempt was made on Brande's life?
  7. What are the names of Metropolis' two Spaceports?