#paul levitz

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FSC: LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #294

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Bah well I just picked up the 1980 and '84 Legion of Super-Heroes series because...because they look neat? /ihaveaproblem

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That didn’t take long!

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Legends Omnibus by John Ostrander, John Byrne, Len Wein, Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen and more. Cover by Byrne. Out in April 2026.

"The legends of the DC Universe are being targeted, discredited, and ostracized as traitors! The president has issued an order banning heroes. Riots are breaking out in the streets, and the goodness of the world is being dismantled. As Darkseid works to turn the public their protectors, his quest to harvest the Anti-Life Equation furthers. As the ticking clock of doom strikes forward, it will take the will of heroes across the globe to overcome the hate spreading and to reclaim the good incarnate in all of us.

Collecting Legends (1986) #1-6; Batman (1940) #401; Detective Comics (1937) #568; Green Lantern Corps (1986) #207; Cosmic Boy #1-4; Justice League of America (1960) #258-261; Secret Origins (1986) #10 and #14; The Fury of Firestorm (1982) #55 and #58-59; Firestorm, the Nuclear Man (1982) #56; Blue Beetle (1986) #9-10; Warlord #114-115; Superman (1987) #3; Adventures of Superman (1987) #426; Action Comics (1938) #586; and Legends: The Making Of Essays, with a brand-new foreword by Mike Gold, introduction by John Ostrander, and a never-before-seen extensive behind-the-scenes look at DC's journey to making a sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths."

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Forty years ago (or 1,000 years in the future) Magnetic Kid, Tellus, Quislet, Polar Boy and Sensor Girl joined the Legion of Super-Heroes.

From Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 3) #14 (September, 1985). Written by Paul Levitz, art by Steve Lightle and Larry Mahlstedt, coloring by Carl Gafford, and lettering by John Costanza.

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Samantha Reads Comics: Adventures in the Bronze Age DC edition #2

already love this dude's vibe.

Shining Knight?

Wally Wood doing the lineart solo now instead of inking over someone else, and his style is reliably fun and endearing, even if not the most polished.

it's a pretty cool panel yeah

love this bonkers-ass twist lmao

nice to see Hawkman actually doing something for once.

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As an adolescent, [Jim Shooter] decided to learn to write comics and draw them, and tactically studied what he thought were the best written comics of the mid-1960s (Marvels, as written mostly by Stan), and targeted his pitch to what he thought was one of the most old-fashioned/weakest comics (DC’s Legion of Super-heroes). Ridiculously, impossibly, the first story he submitted was bought by editor Mort Weisinger, not an editor particularly focused on new talent. And even more incredibly, it was one of the best written comics on the stands that month. And he was 13 when he started this project, 14 when it was published.

I was 9 when I read about that in the Legion’s letters page, and sitting on my porch in Brooklyn, for the first time thought that I might do something writing comics…after all, 14 wasn’t THAT far away. (For the record, I didn’t sell a comics story until I was 17, and that was with the geographic advantage of being a New York kid, not working from Pittsburgh. And if I eventually measured up, it wasn’t until my 20s.)

Jim’s writing progressed, and his Legion was often the best written comic in the DC line, if not mainstream comics. He stopped trying to sketch out his stories, and that sometimes improved the art and sometimes didn’t, depending on who he was teamed with. But like a number of the best writers of my generation, his art skills made him a far better comics writer.

Paul Levitz on Jim Shooter via The Beat. More, much more, there.