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Originally published in 1972 as the official newsletter of the Legion Fan Club, the Legion Outpost soon became the premier Legion of Super-Heroes fanzine of the 1970s, featuring contributions by fans, pros, and soon-to-be pros. Launched at a time when the future of the Legion of Super-Heroes was in doubt, the Legion Outpost was at the center of fan-based efforts to revive the title, and was largely responsible for its rescue from obscurity, leading to it becoming a runaway best-seller! This trade paperback collects the best material from the hard-to-find fanzine, including rare interviews and articles from creators such as Dave Cockrum, Cary Bates, and Jim Shooter, plus never-before-seen artwork by Cockrum, Mike Grell, Jimmy Janes and others! It also features a previously unpublished interview with Keith Giffen originally intended for the never-published Legion Outpost #11, plus other new material! And it sports a rarely-seen classic 1970s cover by Legion fan favorite artist Dave Cockrum!

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Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing
Pub. Date: 31st October 2004
Catalog: Book
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 160
Ean: 9781893905368
Isbn: 1893905365

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70's Fun
~ Written on Sep 22, 2008. out of users found this review helpful.

"The Best of the Legion Outpost" brought a smile to my face while I was reading it. The various essays covered a great deal of ground. And I enjoyed seeing the unpublished art from and based on that era as well. I was a big Legion fan in those days, back before comics took themselves way too seriously with all their "reboots" and "revisions."

It was nice to see fans get involved with something just for the pure fun of it. Readers, who never picked the Legion of Super Heroes, will be perplexed by all this attention, but it was a more innocent time. Star Wars was a few years away (and so was the commercialization) and cynicism hadn't infiltrated all of our media yet.

The girls: Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Lightning Lass, etc were all so beautiful. It may be thirty or some years late, but I still hope Ultra Boy ties the know with Tinya.

I hope TwoMorrows publishes the rest of the Legion Outpost someday. It was fun.

Sincerely,

JThree
Williston, ND

A Blast from the Past!
~ Written on Jan 10, 2007. out of users found this review helpful.

The Legion Outpost was a Legion of Super-Heroes "fan-zine" published irregularly for ten issues during the seventies. The LSH, for the uninitiated, is known for having one of comicdom's most fervent and knowledgeable set of fans, as this compilation clearly shows.

Filled with fan fiction and artist interviews, this book provides much insight into the series, but, perhaps more importantly, reading it is like stepping back in time and joining the club yourself. Isolated on a farm in Eastern Kentucky before the advent of the Internet and reading the early LSH solely as back issues, I wish I had had friends like Mike Flynn, Harry Broertjes, and Mercy Van Vlack.

Fan fun
~ Written on Jul 21, 2006. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

For anyone who has enjoyed attending a comic convention or been involved in a "fanzine", this will bring a familar smile to your face. While this concentrates on The Legion Of Super-Heroes fandom, specifically The Legion Outpost publication, it recalls pleasant memories of comic fandom and how seriously these characters would often be taken (all in fun, of course). Recommended mainly for Legion fans, it does have some first seen (and not seen since) artwork including Cockrum at the time he was working on The Legion comic book. A great supplement to The Legion Companion book as well as a good read by itself.

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