Location: My Favourite Legion of Superheroes Images
Artists:
Curt Swan
(Penciller)
,
George Perez
(Inker)
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WOW!!!! what an incredible grail acquisition. Perfect depiction of the Legion we both grew up with by the artist most associated with the Legion's Silver Age appearances.
This is a legendary "What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" page and the one that features the Legion and Supergirl so well. A Swan song for Curt Swan and the Perez inks were so gentle to these silver age greats.
Whoa.
Epic and highly memorable story, but with the addition of the LSH, simply priceless!
So cool for you to own such a spectacular piece of comic lore and certainly appropos for this Legion-centric page, their "last salute" to Superman, to be in your amazing collection. While Crisis ushered in the end of the bronze age of comics(along with the silver age), this two-part story by Alan Moore was certainly it's epitaph. Just reread both issues for the first time in decades and it was just as big a gut-punch as when it was released. Perez over Swan was just stunning in the whole issue but in the Legion sequence you can see he shifted his inking style to evoke the silver age Legion feel. In reading the story again, Moore's introduction hit me as hard as it did forty years ago, "This is an Imaginary Story ... Aren't they all?" I've remembered those words all these years and the possibility and hope they inspired. But in rereading today another poignant line stood out, "Why is it that the noblest people are the ones most troubled by conscience?" Moore crafted nothing less than a Superman horror story as the violent modern-age comics writing style invaded the panels of its silver-bronze story narrative signaling its end... the end of an era. Yet, the final story panels conclude with new hope and a familar bronze-age wink signaling it will always endure and inspire. Thanks for sharing this wonderful artwork and prompting me to revisit this classic meaningful story.
Amazing piece of history published in conjunction with Supergirl's sacrificial death in Crisis on Infinite Earths. "Supergirl is in the past" (on the subsequent page) is one of the most tragic lines in any comic book.
Great you were able to get this after so many years! But we need a scan without the overlay!
Sweet! Gorgeous! Historic! Congrats!
A wonderful page from a brilliant story. Thanks for sharing and congrats!
i am not a superman fan at all but i cannpot deny the greatness- that story is just brilliant......... congratulations on getting a great page from this classic story.
I agree with Mike Dunne - this is indeed a "grail" page.