Valor #18 annotations: DOA Aftermath

Annotations for Valor #18

• On sale 2/8/94
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 691 (Jan. 10, 2022)
• Legion timeline: immediately after the last issue; for the Legionnaires, in between pages 10-11 of Legionnaires #16 (which has yet to be published), coming from TBD in September 2995

Notes:

• Cover: an homage to the death of Supergirl from Crisis on Infinite Earths #7, by this one by Immonen & Giordano
• Page 3 panel 2: the SW6 Valor left in LSH v4 #37 to go back to 2978 to see if he could figure out who were the clones, the SW6 batch or the older Legion. This was on 5/23/95, just a few days before the Earth exploded. The Legionnaires have come from the pages of Legionnaires #16 which is just a bit in the future from their most recent issue, which was 9/19/95 (so it’s been about 4 months).
• Page 4 panel 4: the 5YL version of Valor getting sent to the Twilight Dimension (or Phantom Zone, or whatever they’re calling it this week) can of course be read in LSH v4 Annual 2, also available in LOSP episode 594.
• Page 5 panel 5: Dragonmage vanishes, never to be seen again. Pour one out for another dead Legionnaire!
• Page 11: the Linear Men are watching. The white-haired guy with the cyborg eye is a future Rip Hunter, the blond man is Matthew Ryder, the woman is Liri Lee, and of course Waverider who is Matthew Ryder from the alternate future ruled by Monarch.
• The Linear Men were a team of scientists based at the Vanishing Point who monitored and studied the timestream of the entire universe from its beginning to its end. In their first appearance, one of its members went rogue and attempted to bring Booster Gold back to his own native time period in the 25th Century, but was stopped by Superman who inadvertently caused himself to be traveling out of control through the timestream. The rogue Linear Man then used his equipment to bring Superman to a point in the 30th Century where the timestream would be so unstable that he could send Superman back to his own time period, and promptly destroyed the moon in order to initiate the event, killing himself in the process. (Time & Time Again, spring 1991 - as recapped in LOSP 580)
• In DC chronology:
• Time & Time Again (spring 1991)
• Armageddon 2001 (summer/fall 1991) (LOSP 597 Event Theater)
• Armageddon Inferno (summer 1992)
• The Legacy of Superman (3/93)
• Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey (early 1994)
• Valor #18

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I'm not tracking the dates in the Valor timeline, other than they occur in 1993, just the Legionnaires stuff. Once we get into Legionnaires #16 everything will retroactively fit into place but for the moment they're still TBD. Boldface indicates something new learned this issue about the timeline.

• TBD: Triad reviews Valor’s history with Catspaw (Valor #11, in between Legionnaires #15-16)
• TBD: Brainy & Triad find that Valor has been retconned from history (Valor #13, which is the same as Legionnaires #16 pages 9-10); Brainy, Triad, Saturn Girl, Dragonmage, Ultra Boy, and Cosmic Boy leave to go back in time to find out what happened (Valor #14, which is the same as Legionnaires #16 page 10).
• Outside of time: the Legionnaires are in the time stream and crash their Time Bubble (Valor #15); The Legionnaires fight Valor and find out that Lori is Glorith (Valor #16) and then fight Glorith, but Valor succumbs to the effects of his lead poisoning and dies; another Valor appears (Valor #17); Brainiac 5 tells SW6 Valor that he will have to spend another 1000 years in the Phantom Zone in order to save time, and Valor does not take it well (Valor #18).