Legion Worlds: coming eventually
Here's an excerpt from a project I've been working on since May 2015. I call it "Legion Worlds" (for now, at least). Or maybe it should be "Where's Where in the Legion of Super-Heroes"? I guess "Encyclopedia Galactica" is already taken.
Back in 2007, Geoff Johns (who apparently read my blog at the time) emailed me to ask if I could help with a project he was working on, which later turned out to be Legion of 3 Worlds. He asked "Do you know where I can get a list of the members of the United Planets from the original series - up to Crisis?" I was able to give him the list of UP worlds in a list that combined the "World Book" and the "Atlas of the DC Universe" from the Mayfair role playing game, "Who's Who in the LSH", and Mark Waid's Legion index (later published as "The Official Index to the LSH" from ICG). I came up with a list of 158 named worlds. If he used anything from my list, I don't know for certain.
But that exchange got me thinking, "I should do some more research to find out if such a list exists". Never found anything that had been created as part of Interlac of the Legion Outpost. But I eventually found a list generated by "Portfolio Boy" on the Legion Worlds message board in 2014, and it was just what I was looking for - but it only went up to Adventure Comics #349.
So beginning in 2015, I went back and looked up every Legion story starting with Adventure Comics #247, and made notes on every dimension, galaxy, solar system, star, planet, country, city, and building that I could find, including whatever history was given, notable inhabitants or animals, whose homeworld it is, and anything else the Encyclopedia Galactica said about it. I'm up through LSH v3 #45 now, covering up to early 1988 ("only" 30 years of history!). I intend this first volume to cover the Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis, Five Years Later, Retroboot, and New 52; the Reboot, Threeboot, and Rebirth versions will come later (and will be far shorter). This should be the definitive list of Legion-related worlds (plus some 20th century places they visited).
Once I'm done (eventually), I will release it with a Creative Commons license.
This is just the list of "A" places (1958-1988). Who remembers all of these? I have 93 pages of notes so far, covering A-Z plus numbers and unnamed places.
- Aarok
- Aegea
- Aktar
- Aldebaran
- Alkoz
- Alkrania
- Alpha-4
- Alpha XVII
- Altair
- Althar
- Amadus
- Amarta
- Amazonia
- Ananke (12th Moon of Jupiter)
- Andalu
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Angtu
- Anakar
- Ankar
- Antares II
- Anterio
- Anti-Matter Universe
- Anv
- Anvor
- Apokolips
- Arane II
- Arbro
- Arctoraan
- Arcturus
- Ardemo
- Arguv
- Arion Star
- Arnak
- Arok-1 and Arok-2
- Arturus
- Asteroid 108
- Asteroid Archipelago
- Asteroid 73-Q
- Asteroid Belt
- Asteroid X52
- Asteroid YW-89
- Asteroid Z
- Asteroid Zone
- Asteroid ZYX-1W
- Avalon
- Avatanda
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