Valor #20 annotations: Sudden Death Overtime part 1

Annotations for Valor #20:

• On sale 4/12/94
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 703 (April 4, 2022)
• Timeline: Date TBD [will be determined when the events synch up in Legionnaires #16]

Notes:

• Kurt Busiek picks up the title to the end of the series from here (with help from Mark Waid)
• Page 5: amazingly, Kurt and Mark manage to recap issues 11-19
• Page 9 panel 1: a time-spasm hits the 30th century and will make its effects felt in Legionnaires #16, which we’ll cover in a couple weeks
• Page 11: the full-page splash was inked by Doran, her only inking this issue

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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.

• Date unknown: Triad reviews Valor’s history with Catspaw (Valor #11, in between Legionnaires #15-16)
• Date TBD (but will be established in Legionnaires #16): 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 Valor's companion 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 also be seen in Legionnaires #16 page 11.)
• 1994: Valor tries to re-create the feats he did before he went into the Phantom Zone, but fails; the Linear Men follow Valor from Vanishing Point, and see timequakes affect the 30th century (Valor #20, which will be seen in Legionnaires #16).