Valor #21 annotations: Sudden Death Overtime part 2

Annotations for Valor #21:

• On sale 5/17/94 (same day as last week’s Legionnaires #16)
• Legion of Substitute Podcasters episode 706 (April 25, 2022)
• Timeline: Sometime in 1994

Notes:

• Cover: Just a neat little touch how the costumes of the Legion of Super-Valors are each slightly different and not just copied and pasted.
• Page 1: Shareth is a new planet which we’ve never heard of before
• Page 6 panel 1: as a reminder of which of the Linear Men is which - 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.
• Page 8: The Legion of Super-Valors?
• Page 17-18: Revisiting the events of LSHv4 Annual 2, only earlier than they had been going to have happened
• Page 22 panel 5: It's too late... for the entire continuum! Coming up....
  
  
  

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I'm not tracking the dates in the Valor timeline prior to issue 11, other than they occur in 1994, just the Legionnaires stuff (and where they fit into Valor's continuity). Boldface indicates something new learned this issue about the timeline. To make it easier to follow, the 1994 dates will be in red text and anything outside of time (like at the beginning or end of time) will be in blue text.

• Date unknown, Sept 2995: Triad reviews Valor’s history with Catspaw (Valor #11, in between Legionnaires #15-16)
• 9/29/95: 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 enter 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 is the same as Legionnaires #16 page 11). From Vanishing Point, the Linear Men see a timequake affect the 30th century (Valor #20), which causes Dream Girl and Star Boy to appear (Legionnaires #16).
• Sat 8/6/1994: Valor tries to re-create the feats he did before he went into the Phantom Zone, but fails; the Linear Men watch Valor from Vanishing Point (Valor #20). As a result of the timeline issues, Valor splits into multiple copies of himself and manages to do all the things that legend said he did over the years, in just a few hours, then resigns himself to having Glorith send him back to the Bgztl Twilight dimension. But the Linear Men realize it’s too late, the future is doomed (Valor #21).