From: tyg@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Thomas Galloway)
Subject: DC: LSH: Editorial Plans for '92
Reply-To: tyg@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Thomas Galloway)
Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 23:12:51 GMT

The following information was obtained from the DC Editorial Presentation
book for '92. It was produced for distributors and dealers, and this should
be kept in mind where I quote some of the hype/marketing direction for some
items. Books are spoiled in various levels of detail, usually just future
guest stars and general plot directions, so the meat is after a ^L

This post deals with Legion universe books and contains substantial spoilers.
Pretty much all the non-spoiler material has already been posted to the
net, so I just went with the spoiler stuff here.

LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES has a fairly detailed account of upcoming issues. #31
is the Element Lad/Shvaugn Erin spotlight with art by Colleen Doran and Curt
Swan. #33 is titled "Whatever Happened to Kid Quantum" and will explain just
who that extra memorial statue in the Ranzz' garden is for. It looks like
Ferro Lad may not have been the first Legionnaire to have been thought to
be killed. Terra Mosaic concludes in #36. #37 is a Star Boy spotlight.

For #38 "this issue kills off more characters than you can count in the
biggest disaster the world has ever witnessed"...recalling the handling of
the moon blowing up real good, my thoughts are "be afraid...be very afraid".
It'll be told in splash pages with narrative text only. Let's just hope
whatever it is doesn't involve gravity in any way, shape, or form...

#39 is double-sized. Giffen will pencil a story about Cham and R.J. Brande.
Pearson will illustrate the aftermath of last issue's disaster. Sprouse will
draw a story leading into the Legionnaires title about the teen Legion.

After that, stories will spotlight Luornu, Tenzil and his search for Polar
Boy, Laurel and the Subs, and an arc titled "Son of Jo".

The annual will have Brin coming to the 20th century and a picnic at the
Ranzz' with a revelation about Lightning Lad and updates on characters not
seen for a while.

LEGION ARCHIVES v. 2 is scheduled for October.

LEGIONNAIRES is about the teen Legion..mostly. They'll have a clubhouse,
costumes, code names, and will fight super-villains in an "action-oriented
book". Chameleon aka the adult Reep will be the adult advisor. There'll be 
20 members at the start, with Legion tryouts starting in #2. Get those votes
in for "David Goldfarb as Suicide Squid, the ten-tentacled terror of the
deep" now folks. Members who I'm sure of are Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, 
Triad (aka Triplicate Girl...guess Computo killing her third body didn't
show up in whatever magic process the Dominators used), Element Lad, Ultra
Boy, Matter-Eater Lad, and Live Wire (aka Lightning Lad...bleah).
I'm pretty sure that Ferro will be Ferro Lad, and Inferno would be Sun Boy,
but I'm unsure who Catspaw, Gossamer, and Andromeda would be, and the
Kid Quantum character from the LSH description is also listed. The characters
aren't bound by any events of the past. In particular "unlikely romances
develop". It'll be in standard format starting in December. Sprouse's
designs for the characters are described as "Legion 90210" by the editor. 

L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 mentions crossovers with the Green Lantern Corps and the
LSH in the next year. 

TIMBER WOLF will be a 5 issue mini-series starting in October done by
Al Gordon and Joe Phillips. In addition to Brin going back to contemporary
San Francisco, Gemini will also be going back. Brin will end up in a 
government group of super-agents called Point Force. "He was Wolverine before
there even was a Wolverine" says editor Michael Eury.

WORLDS OF VALOR is an ongoing series about Lar Gand in the 20th century.
It'll be by Robert Loren Fleming and Mark Bright and starts in September.
Roughly around the turn of the year the flames should start. The first two
issues take place on Earth, then Luthor creates a starship for Lar (who's
given the name Valor by Superman in Eclipso:The Darkness Within #2) which
serves as his HQ as he goes on a joyride through the universe. The ship's
computer is sentient and sarcastic. Starting with #3, he's on his road trip
and will soon get a new look, new costume, and discover that his powers mutate
under different suns...see what I mean about the flames starting around the
turn of the year? Btw, it's plugged as "the first super-hero with changable
powers"...anyone remember Dial H For Hero? Then again, DC also seems to have
forgotten all those Adventure digests which reprinted Legion stories too.
He'll fall in puppy love with a female space pirate and follow her around. She
and her ship's crew will be his supporting cast. Also up are appearances by
Vril Dox and the Blasters. From the description, Lar is going to be much more
immature than we're used to. "teenage boy in his first car on the ultimate
joyride" and "he first gets to be a kid" are taglines used.

"This must be the Red Sox' year. Statistics of the last 75 years prove that
the Sox always win the World Series one year after a Russian revolution."
  --Dan Shaughnessy
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