Valor #19 annotations: Better Off Dead

 Annotations for Valor #19

• On sale 3/15/94
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 697 (Feb 21, 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:

• This was inker Mischa McDowell's last work on the title. Her entire career consisted of inking the interiors to Valor #14-19 (12/93-5/94) & the cover to Classic Star Wars the Early Adventures (newspaper strip) #7 cover from Dark Horse (2/95). I tracked her down to find out how she got into comics and where she went. See this entry for her story.
• There’s a crossover that will have been going to have been with Legionnaires #16 that we don’t know about yet, because Legionnaires #14 will have been going to have just come out. It’s happened in the past for us, since we’re reading the Valor series, but it’s also in the future for us in the Legionnaires series. Or, normal English: 
• Several Legionnaires leave their own time to go back in the time stream in Valor #14, which matches Legionnaires #16 page 9-10. 
• The events outside of time in Valor #15-19 take place in between pages 10-11 of Legionnaires #16. 
• Pages 19-20 of this issue are an expanded version of Legionnaires #16 page 11.

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I'm not tracking the dates in the Valor timeline, other than they occur in 1994, 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), but the presence of Waverider and seeing his fellow Legionnaires vanish changes his mind. Once he accepts his fate, the Legionnaires appear back in their own time and the legend of Valor is restored (Valor #19), which will be seen in Legionnaires #16 page 11.