Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #732 - Black Panther Movie Trailer

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #732 - Black Panther Movie Trailer

Hi Mom,

Welcome back to Saturday in which I present something to watch.

I have been holding on to this one for a few weeks, as the trailer and the subsequent posting by my friend Charles Skaggs (shared here with credit) came out on June 10th.

I am a huge Black Panther fan.

I wrote about Black Panther in my T-shirts blog, here

http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/09/t-shirt-185-black-panther-1978.html

I feel I am due for a T-shirt reprint, and so I am going to reprint this Black Panther entry from T-shirt #185 along with some extra videos plus the blog entry from DAMN GOOD COFFEE AND HOT.

The trailer shown first in the video sequence below teases the film devoted to Black Panther scheduled to debut on February 16, 2018.

Excited!

Since the beginning of the year, I have intended to write about the new Black Panther comic book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates  since 2016 - Official Marvel Comics Link. Entertainment Weekly named the new Black Panther comic book as one of the best comic books of 2016, and so I saved the page from the magazine's year end issue, and I have been planning to finish a post about it since January. Six months later, it seems like a good time to mention that I am still planning my Black Panther comic book post. I set out the new issues in a prominent and visible space in my office remodel. Anyway, I will try to get to that entry soon.

Black Panther ranks among my favorite Marvel heroes in my list of non-Franchise characters (the biggest names) that I have shared several times, here it is again (but this time with Comic Vine and wiki Links)(this is yet again a modified list as I forgot Nova):

MARVEL TOP TWENTY NON-FLAGSHIP SUPERHEROES - MEN
Yes, here it is, the list you have been waiting for. It was difficult to make this list. I had to confine myself to male Marvel heroes who either did not have their own books or who had/have solo books but are not considered the pillars of the Franchise (like Spider-Man and Captain America). Doctor Strange heads the list.

1. Doctor Strange - wiki
2. The Silver Surfer  - wiki
3. The Black Panther  - wiki
4. The Vision  - wiki
5. Adam Warlock  - wiki
6. The Black Knight  - wiki
7. Daimon Hellstorm - Son of Satan  - wiki
8. Iron Fist  - wiki
9. Killraven  - wiki
10. Falcon  - wiki
11. Ka-Zar  - wiki
12. Deathlok  - wiki
13. MOON KNIGHT  - wiki
14. Black Bolt  - wiki
15. Nova - wiki
16. 3D Man  - wiki
17. Machine Man  - wiki
18. Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu  - wiki
19. Quasar  - wiki
20. Captain Mar-Vell  - wiki

As you can see, I have Black Panther ranked as my NUMBER THREE favorite, and really the top five could shift at any time depending on my mood, though Doctor Strange would probably always remain NUMBER ONE.

VIDEOS

The Black Panther movie looks very good (trailer first, directly below) with the Charles Skaggs entry following. I include a video that dissects the trailer, another with an interview with Stan Lee, two videos about history and background, and a final video with a great instrumental cut from Run the Jewels. Following the videos is the reprint of my T-shirt post #185 about The Black Panther plus a lot of covers! Even though I had a comic book related post yesterday, it was time for some more significant comic book content.




Text below FROM - http://charlesskaggs.blogspot.com/2017/06/black-panther-teaser-trailer-debuts.html


What do you know about Wakanda?

Last night, Marvel Studios debuted the first teaser trailer to their upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther during Game 4 of the 2017 NBA Finals, where the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors 137-116.

The one-minute, fifty-second trailer opens in an interrogation room, where CIA Agent Everett K. Ross (Martin Freeman) is questioning arms dealer/smuggler Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) following the events of Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Klaue, having lost his arm at the hands of Ultron, asks Ross, "Tell me something.  What do you know about Wakanda?

"It's a third world country," replies Ross.  "Textiles, shepherds, cool outfits."

"All a front," Klaue remarks.  "Explorers have searched for it, called it 'El Dorado'.  They've looked for it in South America, but it was in Africa the whole time."

We see T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) exiting his personal shuttle, the Royal Talon Fighter, and he's met by various tribal representatives and the elder statesman Zuri (Forest Whitaker) at at place called Warrior Falls.

"I'm the only one who's seen it," continues Klaue, "and made it out alive."  Klaue laughs at the room's one-way window, knowing he's being watched by T'Challa and Okoye (Danai Gurira), the leader of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's all-female special forces.

The Royal Talon Fighter arrives in a technologically-advanced Wakandan city, as we hear the voice of T'Chaka (John Kani), T'Challa's dead father.  "The world is changing," T'Chaka says in a voiceover.  

We see fleeting images of the villainous Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) wearing a mask and T'Challa's love interest Nakia (Lupita N'yong'o) in a casino.

"Soon there will only be the conquered...and the conquerors," T'Chaka continues. "You...are a good man with a good heart, and it's hard for a good man to be a king."

We see a brief scene of T'Challa's mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) with Ross, possibly surrounded.  This is followed by a battle between T'Challa and Killmonger at Warrior Falls.  The final shot shows T'Challa as Black Panther, reeling backwards from an upended car as it crashes.

If you'd like to check out the teaser trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Marvel Entertainment account on YouTube...

T-shirt #185 - Black Panther-1978

Happy Autumn people.


Is the Black Panther autumnal?


Is a yellow shirt the color of autumn?

No, definitely not. I associate yellow with Spring, even though many leaves on trees turn yellow in the autumn.



The Marvel Comics character Black Panther is one of the coolest characters in all of comics. More on this subject in a minute.

This is a new shirt since the start of the blog. I bought it via an Internet store for the specific purpose of writing about it on my blog.

If you check my category, so far, I have only 18 new shirts since the start of the blog, which includes one you cannot see yet because it's under production for a future blog entry. So of the 17 shirts featured so far that have been purchased since the beginning of the blog, four of them are KUDL shirts, not really purchased for the sole intention of being featured on the blog. Two were purchased at concerts, which is something I would have done anyway. Two shirts, including the very first shirt, T-shirt #1: Son of Satan, and T-shirt #49: Hawkman were both on order before the blog began, which is how the blog project began when T-shirt #1: Son of Satan arrived at Fanfare. And one was a gift. This leaves me with nine shirts that have been featured so far that were purchased just for the blog.

I know these statistics may be more interesting to me than anyone else, but here's another interesting point to make: I have many newly purchased T-shirts waiting in the wings. Five are stacked in my office awaiting the photo shoots. I have photos with three others that are hanging in my closet. I wore another one (ninth overall) on Friday hoping to take photos and never did. So, if I am truthful, this brings me to a total of twenty-six shirts, twenty-two not counting KUDL, that were purchased so far for the blog. But given that I am featuring T-shirt #185 today, I do not think those purchasing numbers are significant (26 of 185 is about 15%). Granted, it's likely that there has been no other six month period in my life in which I bought or acquired twenty-six T-shirts. But then, I was not writing this blog before.

I originally featured Black Panther in T-shirt #104 along with the Silver Surfer and Daredevil in the image directly below. Promising you readers more on Black Panther and Daredevil in future posts, here's my delivery of some Black Panther content.

I focused the majority of T-shirt #104 on the Silver Surfer.

Black Panther also came up in the incredibly huge Doctor Strange entry that I wrote for T-shirt #119.

In the Doctor Strange entry, I listed my top twenty male superheroes that were not "Flagship" characters. They were not the big and best known characters. Black Panther ranked third on that list just after Doctor Strange and the Silver Surfer.

Of those three characters, two of them--Silver Surfer and Black Panther--were created by Jack Kirby. In the photos, you see me posing with various Jack Kirby Black Panther books and the Jack Kirby Collector magazine, featuring Black Panther content.

Jack Kirby invented the Black Panther for issue #52 of the Fantastic Four comic book published in 1966. Interestingly, the naming of the Black Panther, which must have occurred at least a couple of months prior to the July publication date of the comic book preceded the foundation of the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary socialist organization, which came in October of 1966. With some minor exceptions, which are not significant enough to detract from the following claim, the Black Panther is the first black hero in comics, certainly the first black hero with any kind of powers in the history of comic books.


I missed the introduction of the Black Panther in Fantastic Four as my first issue of FF was #69. But later, after the Black Panther (whose name is T'Challa) became an Avenger, he became one of my favorite Marvel characters.

The idea of an African king of a fictional nation called Wakanda that was scientifically advanced and bestowed its king with a super powerful panther spirit was very intriguing.


Some of the earliest Panther stuff is the best as seen here in Avengers #87 with cover by John Buscema and a story inside "Look Homeward, Avenger!" written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Sal Buscema published in 1971. This issue elaborates quite effectively on the origin of the Black Panther first told in Fantastic Four #53, which was the second issue of the arc introducing the Black Panther by Lee and Kirby. It was also the first mention of Wakandan Vibranium, the special extraterrestrial ore that gives Wakanda its technological advances. Check out that link, too.

Via the link, there's a map to the likely location of Wakanda. Awesome.

Hold on to your hats and galoshes, kiddos. There's gonna be a lot of art on the blog today. In fact, it's mostly art. Directly below are the title splash page and part of the last page of Fantastic Four #53.

Splash Page Fantastic Four #53

Most of the last page of Fantastic Four #53

Some of my favorite Marvel heroes have nobility, which is what attracts me to them. I probably should revise the top twenty list from T-shirt #119 to include one of the most noble of all: Namor, the Sub-Mariner. I probably did not include him because in many ways he is a Flagship character, especially since he is also one of the oldest Marvel Comics characters (dating back to 1939). I often wondered if the idea for the character's name, Namor, came from reversing "Roman," or if that's simply a coincidence.

On the subject of nobility, Black Panther and Namor are currently in conflict in the comics and one of their conflicts, two kings, two nobles is immortalized in one of the images in today's art gallery.

After debuting in Fantastic Four and being featured featured in Avengers, the popular character found a home in the comic Jungle Action (please forgive Marvel Comics for the potentially insulting title). Don McGregor along with many artists, including one of my favorites, Gil Kane, created what many comic historians consider the first comic book graphic novel from Jungle Action #6-24 (spanning 1973-1976). Though my comic buying was sporadic in those years, I own many of these issues and have since read the entire story, known as "Panther's Rage." The story is considered the first long story conceived as a novel, a two hundred page story of Wakanda ravaged by revolution against its king, T'Challa, the Black Panther.


Following on his success with "Panther's Rage," McGregor wanted to focus a Black Panther story on the Klu Klux Klan. Deemed too controversial, the story ended midway and Jungle Action was canceled.

Jack Kirby, who had been working at DC Comics since leaving Marvel in 1970, launched a wacky, unique, totally wild, and Kirby-esque Black Panther comic book that ran 15 issues from 1977-1979. You see me holding the collected volumes in one of the pictures. At this point in my comic buying, I bought every issue. As I wrote about previously when I wrote about Jack Kirby (1917-1994) in T-shirt #106: Captain America, I was buying all of Jack Kirby's work in this period, including Black Panther, Captain America, Eternals, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Devil Dinosaur, the last in the list is seen in the picture to the above left and is one of the permanent images on the blog page (see upper right corner): "Bonk! Bonk!"

yes, I actually wear the shirts
Me in Detroit on 1309.14
working in the hotel

Kirby's Black Panther is among his most creatively brilliant work in comics like all that 1970s work, especially the late '70s return to Marvel. Kirby started the Panther mid-adventure with no explanation for his association with someone named Mister Little. The socially relevant stories of Don McGregor were gone without a single reference or connection for continuity. The first issue begins as the duo enters the home of someone named Queely, who has just been killed by a mysterious swordsman, whom the Panther battles, over an artifact called King Solomon's Frog. The stories became increasingly more wacky and surreal as the Panther encounters a strange, purple-headed visitor from the future called Hatch-22.

The Kirby stuff from the late 1970s at Marvel was much maligned by the majority of fans at the time. I found it to be brilliant, and I still find it completely unhinged and chimerical. It's wild stuff from one of the greatest geniuses in the history of comic books.

The book Marvel Comics in the 1970s claimed that the Marvel Comics landscape that Kirby had helped to create had moved on without him and called him an "anachronism." Granted, more ground breaking and modern work was being done in other comics of the time, but Kirby's stuff was hardly as abysmal as the writers of that book claim. Now that the Black Panther comics have been collected as well as his other work from that period, the Eternals being the best and some of the best of his career, others can judge his genius in retrospect.

The Black Panther continued without Kirby though for many years only as a guest in other books or as an Avenger. Christopher Priest and Mark Texeira launched a new series (known as volume three) about the character in 1998, which eventually resulted in a new character, Kasper Cole, adopting the mantle of the Black Panther for 13 issues, ending with issue #62 in 2003. Volume four ran from 2005-2008 with John Romita Jr. on the art originally (as seen in some of the images here - directly below) and written by filmmaker Reginald Hudlin. Volume five started in 2009 as T'Challa's sister took on the role of the Black Panther. I would love to review all these stories in detail, but this will have to wait for another shirt (not that I own any at this time) and another blog entry after I re-read those runs.

I will note that one of the smartest moves at Marvel in years was to ret-con T'Challa meeting Ororo Munro (Storm of the X-Men) when they were young and falling in love. The two later rekindled their love and married, with Storm becoming Queen of Wakanda for a time.

John Romita Jr's Black Panther

GOOD LINKS


BLACK PANTHER WIKIPEDIA

BLACK PANTHER MARVEL WIKI

COMIC VINE BLACK PANTHER PAGE

Marvel's Black Panther Movie Confirmed!

STAN LEE SPILLS ON THE BLACK PANTHER MOVIE

Lots of art images to share today. Probably too many, but I kept finding good stuff on the Internet showcasing T'Challa, the Black Panther.




COVERS AND ART GALLERY

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1707.08 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #731 - The Legion of Superheroes - My Oldest - A collection of comic books - part three

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #731 - The Legion of Superheroes - My Oldest - A collection of comic books - part three

Hi Mom,

Because if I post it, they will come.

DC stopped publishing Legion of Superheroes as its own comic in 2012 with issue #13 OF THE new 52.

I miss the Legion of Superheroes.

I miss them so much that I bought a Bugs Bunny and Legion of Superheroes crossover comic (see below) recently simply because it was the first thing DC has published with the Legion of Superheroes in many years.

But the rumor mill has it that the Legion is coming back, and since I have not posted about comic books in some time (since May 19th if we're speaking strictly of comic only content as opposed to something that mentions comics - Hey Mom #682), then it's time to continue this "my oldest" feature with some updates!

Two immediate things come to mind.

One is that I am culling my comic collection.

So, there's this:

So, yeah, I am not a hoarder.

I can get rid of stuff.

Most of these boxes are filled with comics from the last 2-3 years that I do not plan to keep.

Two of the short boxes are full of comics I did not read and realized that I would not read.

The long box was not full, but it did contain the CD set of digital Amazing Spider-Man issues that I finally archived on my hard drive and backed up twice. So that's done.

But there's still this at my Dad's

So, yeah, that's a lot of comics. Plus I still have a few long boxes here at my house.

The only titles I am absolutely NOT getting rid of are The Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans, and The Fantastic Four. I plan to keep some of the oldest comics from my childhood from many titles. But the rest? Right now, I am not certain that I will keep entire, long-time running comic titles of anything else.

It's funny because those three choices make it seem as if I a bigger DC fan than anything else. But as I was sorting those comics in the picture shared from Facebook (via Instagram), my DC stack was the smallest (just Aquaman and Batman). Marvel was the biggest stack and Image/other was in between. I will take some comics west, but I am trying to reduce the number. Right now, it looks like five small boxes and some yet to be determined. But not much more than that. I have two milk crates full, which is probably another small box. I may not take any long boxes.

For now, the collection is staying at Dad's. And I have collected volumes of those three titles -- The Legion of Superheroes, Teen Titans, and The Fantastic Four -- which are going west for sure.

But maybe not this trip. I may not take those boxes until I future trip.

I am trying to be mindful of not having as much storage space in the new place as I do here.

Anyway, here's the Bugs and Legion comic cover (right).

It was a fun issue, especially with page spreads of the legion characters dealing with their "angst" in humorous sequences, (see below) illustrated by Tom Grummet, whose work I have always enjoyed going back to his days on the Titans comic.

It was a fun comic, and I do not regret buying it. I liked seeing the fun that the artists and writers were having with the Legion.

THE MAIN REASON THAT THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES IS SO ATTRACTIVE is that it fosters a sense of community. This idea of a group of teenagers from various planets, some human, some not, some humanoid, some not (though originally all were humanoid at least), all coming together for a club of kids with powers who all have fun adventures but also get to hang out with like-minded kids with similar issues was a genius idea. The idea clearly appealed to others because the Legion fandom is possibly the single most active fan group in comics.

There's romance and romantic storylines. When the Legion is done well, there's a great mix of high adventure, science fiction, space opera, and soap opera, romantic-based melodrama. The page above captures that spirit. Look at Dream Girl's pose: oh the angst produced by the burden of her powers. Ayla (Light Lass) and Jo Nah (Ultra Boy) are quick to draw appropriate conclusions and ready for action.

So, below I have some more Legion content. First, I am sharing an article from moviepilot.com about the possible return of the Legion at DC Comics yet this year.

Next, there's my own T-shirts content about the Legion, in which I never really shared exactly which issue of mine is the oldest.

Below that, I think I have identified that Superboy #147 is my oldest appearance featuring the Legion of Superheroes.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-147-the-origin-of-the-legion/4000-114932/

There's a lot of great graphics, like these shared by my friend George Gustines, one via Arlen Schumer, whom I met many years ago in New York.

There's even a couple of videos.

Enjoy.

FROM -

https://moviepilot.com/p/dc-comics-rebirth-legion-of-super-heroes-return/4188657

#DCRebirth

The Legion Of Super-Heroes Are About To Return In DC Comics's "Rebirth"!

January 16, 2017 at 06:40AMByTom Bacon, writer at CREATORS.CO

I'm a film-and-TV fan who grew up with a deep love of superhero comics! Follow me on Twitter @TomABacon or on Facebook @tombaconsuperheroes!

Launched last May, DC's "Rebirth" event has proven to be a hit! As the "Rebirth" era nears its one-year anniversary, Geoff Johns is teasing his return, and a Batman / The Flash crossover event looks set to lift the lid on some of DC's greatest mysteries. Meanwhile, a year after the first hint, it looks as though the Legion of Super-Heroes is about to return!

Created by writer Otto Binder in 1958, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of heroes based in the 30th & 31st centuries. The initial version of the LSH was inspired by the adventures of Superboy, and they traveled back in time to add him to their number. To Binder's surprise, the LSH proved so popular that they became recurring characters in Adventure Comics, and they eventually took over the feature completely. It wasn't until the 1970s that the Legion began to star in their own official title, though.

The origin of the Legion has been rewritten with pretty much every reboot of the #DC universe, but they've remained the future's premiere superteam. Each member typically has fairly distinct powers, but all wear a flight ring marked with an 'L'.

Over the decades, there have been countless Legionnaires, but the staple members include the telepathic Saturn Girl, the electricity-manipulating Lightning Lad, and the electromagnetic Cosmic Boy. The Silver Age added characters such as Triplicate Girl, Phantom Girl (who turned intangible), the shapeshifting Chameleon Boy, and the genius Brainiac 5.

The Legion's Role in "Rebirth"

The Legion flight ring. [Credit: DC Comics]

Last May, all-star writer #GeoffJohns launched the "Rebirth" era with DC Universe - Rebirth #1. A tremendously successful comic, Rebirth teased a lot of major arcs that would be developed over the next two years, and one of them was a teaser that the Legion of Super-Heroes would soon be returning.

In one brief scene, we were introduced to a mysterious young woman who had been arrested after stealing food. She claimed to be a friend of Superman's, and wasn't particularly shaken at the news that he'd recently died; in fact, when interviewed by Captain Maggie Sawyer, she told her she'd seen the future and everything would turn out fine. Sawyer was understandably impressed, but the GCPD considered having the girl evaluated for psychological help. In one final scene, we saw this mystery character's only possession; a Legion flight ring.

Fans of the Legion were thrilled, not least because they deduced the mystery woman was most likely Saturn Girl — a key member of the Legion. They were right, as we learned after a second teaser in Batman #9. Launching Tom King's phenomenal 'I Am Suicide' arc, Batman #9 saw the Dark Knight recruiting a crack team of Arkham inmates. Significantly, as Batman stalked through the corridors of Arkham Asylum, he passed a cell containing a 'Jane Doe', who breathed on the glass of her cell and inscribed the Legion insignia. It seemed the Legionnaire had been sent to Arkham after psychological evaluation.

Why Saturn Girl?

Geoff Johns has always loved the Legion of Super-Heroes — and he's always had a particular love for Saturn Girl. In his view, three members of the Legion are absolutely fundamental to the history of the DC Universe: Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, and Lightning Lad. After all, back in Binder's 1958 origin story, these were the guys who taught Superman what it meant to be a hero! He reserved particularly warm words for Saturn Girl:

"Saturn Girl is the heart and soul of the Legion of Super-Heroes. When everybody's saying, "Legion doesn't work anymore. There's too much xenophobia. You can't change people." Saturn Girl says, "Yes, you can." Then suddenly, you realize she can read people's minds. She knows everyone's deepest, darkest secrets. If she has faith, then at the base level, human beings and aliens and everybody can reach that goal, can reach that achievement and have that goodness inside them. I believe her. I'm with her. And that's why Saturn Girl is so important to the Legion. She says, "We can do this." And it's like, well, if she believes it, then I believe it too. She's at the epicenter of truth for the entire universe for me."

So it's hardly a coincidence that Johns added Saturn Girl into the "Rebirth" mix, emphasizing once again the fundamental vitality and positivity of the reborn DC universe.

What's Next?

[Credit: DC Comics]

As with the main "Rebirth" story, DC is playing the long game with the Legion of Super-Heroes. But plans are clearly set in place; at Baltimore Comic Con 2016, they revealed that one of the DC Rebirth panel would soon be writing Legion of Super-Heroes. That’s a choice of Dan DiDio, Tom King, Hope Larson, James Tynion IV, Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens and Yannick Paquette. While I'd highlight Paul Levitz and Tom King — Levitz has been associated with the Legion for decades, while King gave a nod to Saturn Girl in Batman #9 — the truth is that any one of those writers could easily pen the series.

Still, that text box suggests that the Legion plot is heading over to the pages of Supergirl. Solicits to date haven't given any indication of a Legion-centric plot here — or of an encounter with the Emerald Empress, for that matter. So that exciting arc can't happen until April or May at the earliest; my money's on May, the one-year anniversary of "Rebirth", when I'm expecting DC to kick off a second phase. If I'm right about that, then we can expect the Legion of Super-Heroes to get a high-profile relaunch in just a few months' time!

So, I have a "My Oldest" category on this blog with a few entries.

In reprinting T-shirts content in which I wrote at more length about the oldest comic books in my collection, I started parceling out the material in parts. Here's the links to the other two parts.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #624 - My Oldest - A collection of comic books - part one

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #651 - My Oldest - A collection of comic books - part two

FROM - http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-127-legion-of-superheroes-logo.html

T-shirt #127: Legion of Superheroes Logo

How cool would it be to belong to a club of teenaged superheroes?

In the future.

FAR in the future, like 1000 years in the future.

In which every superhero has special and unique powers.

And it's a club SO BIG that it has a waiting list (the "reserves"): The Legion of Substitute Heroes.

It's the LEGION OF SUPERHEROES.

AND membership provides each hero with a ring that lends the wearer the power of flight and a special force field to be able to fly in space while breathing Oxygen magically produced from the tiny gadget while keeping the wearer safe from the vacuum and cold of space by some other magic technology provided by the ring, which, like many uniforms features a cool logo, the team logo of THE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES (and, no, this is not technically a run-on sentence).

I want to belong to that club.

I had to buy this seven-figure PVC figurine set when I saw it solicited in Previews, featuring the original three founding members of the Legion in their original costumes (Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad) as well as four of the earliest members in their original costumes. The box mirrors the Legion's original headquarters, The Legion Clubhouse, which was a rocket ship that crashed in Kal-El (Superman's Kryptonian name) Memorial Park where it became a tourist attraction until the Legionnaires discovered that it was a second supply rocket equipped by Jor-El of Krypton and launched to follow the rocket that carried Kal-El to Earth. Later, the clubhouse was nearly destroyed in a battle with the Fatal Five and the Legion relocated its HQ. The old rocket ship was refurbished and served as an HQ for the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

One thing about the Legion of Superheroes that drew the attention of fans is the relationships between the large cast. Many of these relationships were only hinted at in the original Silver Age comics. The Legion developed a huge and rabid fan base. Large, more vocal, and with greater subtext on which to focus than any other fan community, the Legion fandom were so intense and devoted that they alone kept the Legion published when the general comic book readership had abandoned it as a goofy, throwback to the 1950s and 1960s with heroes sporting very silly names that ended in "Boy," "Lad," "Girl," or "Lass."

In fact, the Legion fan community was so devoted that many came to produce Legion comics, starting with Jim Shooter who wrote his first Legion script at the age of fourteen, soon  becoming the regular writer on the Legion comic. Longtime fan Paul Levitz may have logged the most issues and the most defining run in Legion history aided by great artists like Mike Grell, Steve Lightle, and Keith Giffen. Starting in 1989, other fans straight out of Legion fandom, Tom and May Bierbaum, took over writing Legion comics and did some work that was inscrutable to most readers and yet much loved by some of the hardcore Legion fans (like me). The Bierbaums were very active in the exclusive APA (Amateur Press Association - see my T-shirt #61: Nightwing for more explanation of what an APA is) Interlac, named after the International Galactic Language of the Legion era, which is 1000 years in the future.






Interlac and The Legion Outpost fan club are the holy grails of comic book fandom.

Legion fans are very fun and interesting people as seen here in a "Cos Play" photo.

I may be a fan, but I don't do Cos Play.

Not that there's anything wrong with Cos Play. Just not my thing.

Some of my bets friends do Cos Play.

Okay... whatever. Shutting up now.

Photo to be found via : http://www.flickr.com/photos/patcave/5011972641/

COOL LINKS

DC-Wiki - Legion Entry

Legion WIKI

Regular Wikipedia Entry for the Legion

List of all Legion Members

COMIC VINE - LEGION OF SUPERHEROES

COMIC VINE - SUPER BOY (WITH LEGION)

TOP TEN FAVORITE LEGION OF SUPERHEROES CHARACTERS

1. Wildfire
2. Dawnstar
3. Element Lad
4. Sun Boy
5. Shadow Lass
6. Timber Wolf
7. The White Witch
8. Lightning Lass
9. Chameleon Boy
10. Cosmic Boy

Honorable mention: Matter-Eater Lad. I have to give him an honorable mention because the idea for the hero is so ridiculous. He eats anything and everything.

The list of names will not mean much to people who are not comic book fans and have some experience with the characters. For instance, in the image to the left, Dawnstar has the wings, Wildfire is in the extreme foreground at the bottom (you can see his shiny visor), and Timber Wolf is in the lower right corner right below Shadow Lass who is the dark colored woman to Dawnstar's upper left (her left is our right).

COVER GALLERY

ORIGINAL T-SHORTS TEXT: I tried to find the earliest Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes comic I own in an online image but that will have to wait for a future posting as there are more Legion shirts (big surprise). But I did find a few of the earliest covers (#201, 204, 205, and 207). I own plus some others that I like. I hope that this gallery may inspire others to investigate this Legion thing.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-202-lost-a-million-miles-from-home/4000-119483/

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-191-the-kid-with-the-super-brain-attack-o/4000-136749/

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-184-the-glass-nightmare-one-legionnaire-m/4000-134166/

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-161-the-strange-death-of-superboy-more-of/4000-131337/

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/superboy-147-the-origin-of-the-legion/4000-114932/

Issue details

Name	The Origin of the Legion
Volume	Superboy
Issue Number	147
Cover Date	June 1, 1968
In Store Date	N/A

This "80 pg. Giant G 47" gives the origins of various super-teams and how various characters joined them.

1. The Origin of the Legion! (Legion of Super-Heroes / written by E. Nelson Bridwell : reprinted in: Secret Origins #6, The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #8)

The origin of the Legion of Super-Heroes is finally revealed. A young Garth Ranzz boards a ship to Earth to find his brother, Mekt Ranzz. On the same ship is already seated Rokk Krinn, also going to Earth, a native of Braal. Rokk and Garth make each other's acquaintaince and come across Imra Ardeen. While leaving the ship, Imra receives a telepathic message that someone is trying to kill the rich R.J. Brande, who was also on the ship. When she shouts this information out, both Garth and Rokk stop the perpetrators and bring them to justice. R.J. Brande is so grateful that he tells them to come to his office the next day. The three teenagers are then asked by R.J. Brande to join up as superheroes, inspired by the heroes of the past like Superman and Supergirl. The Legion of Super-Heroes is formed and news of their making reaches many planets. Their first new member is Triplicate Girl, who cam to Earth to join them after hearing about their exploits. The next member was Phantom Girl and their roster continued to expand, even admitting their inspirations: Superman and Supergirl.

1. The Boy with Ultra-Powers! (Ultra-Boy, Superboy, Legion of Super-Heroes / written by Jerry Siegel : reprinted from: Superboy #98)

Will Ultra-Boy reveal Superboy's identity to join the Legion?

1. The Legion of Super-Traitors! (Superboy, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legion of Super Pets, Supergirl, Mon-El, Jax-Ur, General Zod / written by Jerry Siegel : reprinted from Adventure Comics #293)

The Brain Globes of Rambat want to move Earth to their solar system, and hypniotize the Legion of Super Heroes to defeat Superboy, their only obstacle! How do the Legion of Super Pets factor in all this?

1. Supergirl's Three Super-Girl Friends! (Supergirl, Brainiac, Lori Lemaris, Jerro, Legion of Super-Heroes / written by Jerry Siegel : reprinted from: Action Comics #276)

How did Supergirl get into the Legion of Super-Heroes? Also can she trust Brainiac-5, a descendant of Brainiac?

1. The Secret of the Seventh Super-Hero! (Superboy, Legion of Super-Heroes / written by Robert Bernstein : reprinted from Adventure Comics #290)

There's an imposter in the Legion! Who is it?

1. The Legion of Super-Villains! (Superman, Legion of Super Villains, Legion of Super-Heroes / written by Jerry Siegel : reprinted from: Superman #147)

The first adult appearance of the Legion of Super Heroes. Lex assembles the Legion of Super Villains, can they defeat Superman?

1. The Lore of the Legion (full text article about the Legion of Super-Heroes)

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 733 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1707.07 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #730 - Halloween 1969 - Me and Lori - Throwback Thursday

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #730 - Halloween 1969 - Me and Lori - Throwback Thursday

Hi Mom,

Welcome to the two year mark. 730 days is 365 * 2. I started this blog feature two days after your death, Mom, so this is the two year blog mark.

Feels good.

No plans to stop. I may write about that issue (not stopping) and blog recap soon, but not today.

So, about this photo, Mom.

You, Mom, wrote on this photo: "Me - 7rs 3 months and Lori 11-12 weeks."

So these ages are not right, Mom.

Since I was born on January 19, 1962, and turned seven on January 19, 1969, and Lori was born on August 9th, 1969, when she is 11-12 weeks old, I would be seven years and 9-10 months. Clearly, this is a picture from Halloween 1969, then at the end of October, Lori is 11 weeks old, and I am seven years and nine months old. Unless that's supposed to be an 8 for 8 months.

I thought I would share a picture of me and Lori again because we're having lunch later today.

So, we're back to the stream of consciousness sharing thing. I may dress the post up with some more photos.

I am giving myself fifteen minutes at this sitting. It may be my longest session of the day.

I am in high gear right now, so I am going to work on this post off and all day in between grading, making calls for house and moving stuff, finishing setting up my office. I have some before pictures, but I do not have the full effect of the messy office before this culling and remodeling. Though I may save  the entire set of photos for a special post of its own.

Things are happening around here, Mom. We we're going to list the house yesterday, but now we are listing it tomorrow. Professional photos happen tomorrow, though I am hoping we will use some of the photos from the appraisal from six years ago. We have an open house scheduled for Sunday. We are really hoping the house sells this weekend.

There's still so much to do, but I am being philosophical about it. What gets done is what gets done. i am not going to fret about things outside of my control, and I am going to do my best to prioritize for the greatest impact.

That said, I think my office is looking pretty good.

Dad came over yesterday and helped me cut down the pine tree branches around the mail box. The mowing and trimming happened and I had to call. The lawn does not really look well mowed. I believe they set their deck a bit higher so people have to have them back each week. I wanted to a lower, close trim. So I am waiting to here back on that. We received the estimate on the new shower and are trying to decide if we really do want to replace it. And then there's at least a dozen other things that I am juggling along with work, puppies, laundry, my office, and this blog.

At least the puppies are back at Camp Fido today. Remember, Mom? Ellory was turned away with "kennel cough" two weeks ago. She has been symptom free for over a week, she is done with her anti biotics, and she's MORE than ready to go.

Liesel joined us on the long walk last night and held Ellory's leash while I did Satchel. We had a very nice walk. With the breeze and much of the route in the shade, it was not unbearably hot, though Liesel carries a water bottle. I should get her a camel pack for her birthday.

Speaking of Liesel, she reported to me that it 88 degrees in Woodland (our new town) yesterday and 92 in Portland. So much for all these people telling us that we don't need air conditioning.

Switching gears, I am going to take Lori to Arcadia today for lunch, unless it's insanely busy. It was insanely busy Monday, apparently, and Liesel ended up taking Rochelle and Keith (her aunt and uncle) to Maru.

Did I mention that I saw the Wonder Woman movie on Monday? FINALLY. I hope to write about it in a blog entry of its very own, but I will say that I really liked it. So did Liesel. So we'll see if I have time to write something more substantial about the movie.

I have completed cleaning my office, and our rooms are ready for tomorrow's listing and photos. I may do a full post about my office tomorrow, or at least soon. I wish I had more pictures of the mess it was before the renovation. I cleaned a lot out of here. It feels good.

I hope to get plans for the new house soon with measurements, so I can see if my new office will be bigger, smaller, or the same size as my current office. I can begin to make some plans once I have a better idea of the room size.

It's been a pretty long day, Mom, even though I am time stamping and dating from earlier in the day.

Nice lunch with Lori at Zooroona.

Probably going to bed early.

I know, I know, if you're a reader other than my Mom, this is not all that exciting, right? But it's honest, and it is what it is. It not like I have TV show premiering on Netflix tonight like Warren Ellis and Castlevania.

Had to sneak in that mention... :-)

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Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

I miss you so very much, Mom.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.

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- Days ago = 732 days ago

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1707.06 - 10:10

NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.