Index Number – 1209 - 1.0
Issue – All-New Collectors’ Edition C-55
Cover Date – 1978
Title – The Millennium Massacre
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Color Kid, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dawnstar, Dream Girl , Duo Damsel, Duplicate Boy, Element Lad, Fire Lad, Karate Kid, Kid Psycho, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Night Girl, Phantom Girl, Polar Boy, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Stone Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Timber Wolf, Tyroc, Ultra Boy, Wildfire
Villain – Time Trapper
Synopsis – Superboy travels to the 30th century to attend the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. He unexpectedly finds a militaristic society. Apparently, a nuclear exchange in 1978 caused his future / their past to change. After the wedding, he leads a group of Legionnaires to the past to rechange history. They all face off against the Time Trapper at the end of time.
Issue – All-New Collectors’ Edition C-55
Cover Date – 1978
Title – The Millennium Massacre
Characters – Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Color Kid, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dawnstar, Dream Girl , Duo Damsel, Duplicate Boy, Element Lad, Fire Lad, Karate Kid, Kid Psycho, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Mon-El, Night Girl, Phantom Girl, Polar Boy, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Stone Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Timber Wolf, Tyroc, Ultra Boy, Wildfire
Villain – Time Trapper
Synopsis – Superboy travels to the 30th century to attend the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. He unexpectedly finds a militaristic society. Apparently, a nuclear exchange in 1978 caused his future / their past to change. After the wedding, he leads a group of Legionnaires to the past to rechange history. They all face off against the Time Trapper at the end of time.
Writer – Paul Levitz
Artist – Mike Grell / Vince Colletta
Cover – Mike Grell
Editor – Joe Orlando, Paul Levitz
Comment – This was a tabloid-sized book. It featured a two-page spread of the big wedding with all the Legionnaires and the Subs pictured. It also included Duplicate Boy from Lallor, the Martian Manhunter, Paul Levitz, Mike Grell and a character from the John Carter of Mars series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This implies that J’onn J’onzz survived into the 30th century. In fact, later issues will suggest that he is actually R. J. Brande in one of the Legion’s incarnations.
The “Origins and Powers” feature from his book is reprinted in the 2009 collection, Legion of Super Heroes – 1,050 Years of the Future.
This edition has been panned by much of fandom over the years, mostly because it won’t fit in a long box, and although it does feature the type of time travel story that I hate, I treasure this issue for the art. The larger format allowed Grell and Colletta to pull out all of the stops with numerous sweeping panaramas. It’s hard to find, but worth searching for.
Artist – Mike Grell / Vince Colletta
Cover – Mike Grell
Editor – Joe Orlando, Paul Levitz
Comment – This was a tabloid-sized book. It featured a two-page spread of the big wedding with all the Legionnaires and the Subs pictured. It also included Duplicate Boy from Lallor, the Martian Manhunter, Paul Levitz, Mike Grell and a character from the John Carter of Mars series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This implies that J’onn J’onzz survived into the 30th century. In fact, later issues will suggest that he is actually R. J. Brande in one of the Legion’s incarnations.
The “Origins and Powers” feature from his book is reprinted in the 2009 collection, Legion of Super Heroes – 1,050 Years of the Future.
This edition has been panned by much of fandom over the years, mostly because it won’t fit in a long box, and although it does feature the type of time travel story that I hate, I treasure this issue for the art. The larger format allowed Grell and Colletta to pull out all of the stops with numerous sweeping panaramas. It’s hard to find, but worth searching for.
Mike Grell and Vinnie Colletta, a very underrated collaborative team. They worked together on such series' as Warlord and Green Arrow. Classic comic book art.
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