In which we discuss the Legion of Superheroes! We discuss their origin, their creators, their impacts, and maybe why they stuck in peoples' imaginations. This is one of our first Silver Age dives and it won't be our last!
With our 15th episode, we got some good stuff! We both really enjoyed doing this episode because this was story-telling from a different, kind of crazier, and definitely less cynical time. I hope you catch our enthusiasm! Anyway, let us know what you think! If you're listening via some podcatcher, leave us a rating and comment! If you feel like hitting us up via the social media, we gots that too! Talk to us!
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Phil here: Believe it or not, this was also one of my more daunting episodes to handle research-wise. The further back you go in time for many of these topics, the less info you have to work with. Fortunately, I did find a few resources to help me out through this. One big one being an out-of-print book that I hope goes back in to print at some point. Aside from the bios of the creators, I mostly just ended up talking about the various recurring themes of the Legion. Anyway, I'll show you what I got.
The Legion Companion (TwoMorrows Publishing): This is out of print, unfortunately, but I did manage to snag enough info from a borrowed copy to get a mini-bio on John Forte.
Some online resources include:
https://www.pulpartists.com/Forte.html
http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com/2018/05/john-forte-rip-1918-1966.html
http://sequart.org/magazine/11675/on-adventure-comics-332-by-edmond-hamilton-and-john-forte-1965/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160403121104/http://tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/1270-classic-leigh-brackett-a-edmond-hamilton-interview
Here's the comics that we read for the episode:
Adventure Comics: 247, 267, 282, 290, 293, 300-345
Action Comics: 267, 287, 289
Superboy: 86, 89, 98, 117, 124, 125
Superman: 147
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: 72, 76
