Thursday, May 09, 2024

The Definitive 5YL Legion Timeline part 9: Five Years Later (Sept 21 to Oct 1, 2995)

The "Five Years Later" story continues in August and part of Sept 2995, from when the Zero Hour time shenanigans start taking effect to just before Zero Hour #4. See the entry for Year 1 for the details.

In this table, rows are color-coded yellow if it was a date confirmed by the 2995 Sourcebook; green if it was a date confirmed in the comic itself; and blue for when I had to estimate a date. If the row is in italics, it means there was no specific date given. And finally, during Zero Hour, there were some things happening in 1994 (red text), in 2995, and at the dawn or end of time (blue text) "simultaneously". Once we get there, it's not strictly chronologically linear, but narratively linear instead.

Date unknown, between 9/19 and 9/29

Triad reviews Valor’s history with Catspaw

Valor #11, in between Legionnaires #15 & #16

Sun 9/23/95

The team arrives on Rimbor, and Jo brings a team to an old warehouse but he and Sussa are captured by a rival gang.

LSH v4 #55

Wed 9/27/95

Legionnaires start the process of going undercover while hiding out on Rimbor, and Sussa escapes

LSH v4 #54

 

Universo looks for the Legion on Rimbor; Jo recruits other gangs to go against the government, while Mysa and Vi sneak into government HQ to find out what’s going on; on Starhaven, Dawnstar undergoes a vision quest

LSH v4 #55

 

The Legion exposes Khundish interference on Rimbor and escape

LSH v4 #56

Thu 9/28/95

The Legion tries and fails to protect Starfinger III from the Khunds, while fighting the Legion Academy, the Khundish ex-Legionnaires, and the mind-controlled Heroes of Lallor; Polestar leaves for New Earth while the rest of the team go to Weber’s World; Valor finds something strange with Dev-Em; Rond Vidar finds something strange in the time stream

LSH v4 #57

Fri 9/29/95

Arriving at Weber’s World, the team tries to stop the Khunds’ bombs from destroying the planet; Dawnstar arrives and meets Wildfire; Firefist kills Veilmist; after studying at the Infinite Library, Glorith travels to Tharn where she restores Mordru’s powers to help her conquer the universe

LSH v4 #58

 

Meanwhile, SW6 Brainy & Triad find that Valor has been retconned from history

Valor #13, Legionnaires #16 pages 9-10

 

A team of Legionnaires goes back in time to find out what happened to Valor

Valor #14, 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

 

The Legionnaires fight Glorith, but Valor succumbs to the effects of his lead poisoning and dies; SW6 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

 

The presence of Waverider and seeing his fellow Legionnaires vanish changes Valor’s mind. Once he accepts his fate, the Legionnaires appear back in their own time and the legend of Valor is restored

Valor #19, Legionnaires #16 page 11

 

From Vanishing Point, the Linear Men see a timequake affect the 30th century, which causes Dream Girl and Star Boy to appear

Legionnaires #16, Valor #20

Fri 9/29/95

The Legionnaires instantly return to their present, unaware of their meeting with Glorith and the Valors

Legionnaires #16 page 11

 

Star Boy, Dream Girl, and Bouncing Boy appear with the Legionnaires and Ferro Lad is long dead, leading Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad – who seem to be the only ones aware that something funny is going on – to take a Time Bubble to figure it out (even though Invisible Kid and Rond Vidar are secretly aware that something’s happening); Polestar appears at New Earth

Legionnaires #16, LSH v4 #59

 

Rond, SW6 Brainiac 5, and SW6 Invisible Kid arrive on Weber’s World along with Mon-El, Shadow Lass, and Dev-Em too late to prevent the death of Laurel Gand from the Khund bomb, after which Jo leaves for 1994 to find Tinya

LSH v4 #59

 

The SW6 Legionnaires confront Polestar at New Earth

Legionnaires #17

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, and see timequakes affect the 30th century

Valor #20, Legionnaires #16, LSH v4 #59

 

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

8/7/1994

Jo Nah arrives from the future in the time bubble He meets who he thinks is Tinya, but it turns out to have been her cousin Enya all along.

L.E.G.I.O.N. #68

 

Jo wants to bring Enya back to the 30th century

L.E.G.I.O.N. #69

Sat 9/30/95

Laurel Gand is laid to rest on Shanghalla in a ceremony attended by a number of adult and SW6 Legionnaires, after which Glorith and Mordru attack the group with replicas of some of their old foes and then kidnap Rokk, and then Dawnstar fades out

Legionnaires #17

 

Valor and others go to New Earth to help Brande bring Pocket Earth into this universe, but while the Subs and several Legionnaires blink out of existence, Pocket Earth turns out to be unstable and will explode in 72 hours

Valor #22

 

Rokk tries but can’t escape Mordru and Glorith

LSH v4 #60

Sun 10/1/95

Rokk escapes Mordru and Glorith by going into the Infinite Library; the surviving members of the adult and SW6 Legions meet on Winath to help look for Rokk, but when Glorith and Mordru show up on Talus seeking the Time Beacon, the Legions go there. The magicians call forth the Infinite Man, and then they take his powers. Gim Allon disappears when his SW6 counterpart Leviathan is killed

LSH v4 #60

 

Mordru and Glorith begin to remake the universe, and the Legion teams fight them and their evil dopplegangers. But one by one, more Legionnaires fade out. Mysa manages to break Mordru and Glorith apart which causes their spell to fail, at least temporarily, before she fades out

Legionnaires #18

 

Valor and Shadow Lass meet Pre-Crisis Superboy, who helps the Legions fight Glorith and Mordru. The team beats Glorith, and her Infinite Man powers flow to Valor. He then dumps it all on Mordru, who is unprepared to have his mind merge with the universe. Mordru teleports away into the core of Pocket Earth, which is ready to explode in a couple of days. Valor and Shady vanish, and after Superboy makes a rousing speech, he too vanishes

Valor #23


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