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Legion of Super-Heroes 07 cover by Keith Giffen

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Artists: Keith Giffen (Penciller) , Al Gordon (Inker)

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Title:	Legion of Super-Heroes 07 cover by Keith Giffen
Artist:	Keith Giffen (Penciller)
Artist:	Al Gordon (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
Views:	1,332
Likes on CAF:	11 12
Added to Site:	12/31/2021

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In 1989 DC relaunched the Legion.
The new series taking place five years later than when the old series ended and as such is referred by Legion fans as the FYL (Five Years Later) Legion.
Gone was the bright utopian future and by issue four so was the entire Legion history.
Mordru has conquered Tharn and captured Mysal Nal (aka The Witch Witch), sapping her power and made her his concubine.
Not only the stories were darker and more 'adult' but the art by Keith Giffen had evolved and was darker and the stories (except for a splash page or two) were all told in a nine panel grid.
Also controversially, Giffen was accused of swiping the art of Argentinian artist Jos� Antonio Mu�oz. Years later Giffen addressed the controversy as follows:
"I had a bad incident with studying somebody's work very closely at one point, and I resolved never, ever to do it again. I can get so immersed in somebody's work that I start turning into a Xerox machine and it's not good. . . . There was no time I was sitting there tracing or copying, no duplicating, pulling out of memory and putting down on paper after intense study, absolutely."
The FYL drove divisions among Legion fandom that persist today with many loving it and many hating it.
Despite not being as popular as his earlier art, pages and covers from this era are hard to find.
Here on the cover of issue 7, in the battleground that was Mordru's gardens, battered and bruised, Mysa struggles to free her mind and cast one final spell.

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