Legion of Super-Resources --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a comprehensive list of Legion-related resources on and off the internet. All of the sub-bullets under a particular entry are available on a sub-page of the main document that has the link. Just about anything you want to find will be on one or more of these pages. * LSH on the web * LSH elsewhere on the internet * LSH online * LSH offline This compilation is copyright 1996 by Michael Grabois, Troy McNemar, Sidne Ward, and Andrew Woodard. It may be reused only with permission. Violators will be turned over to the Interplanetary Bank Beast Guards. Last updated: July 22, 1996. New Pages: [7/11] Andrew Apold's Dr. Mayavale page [7/08] Glenn Colby's Legion Cover Gallery New Addresses: [7/11] JD Hancock's Mirror Lad's Legion of Super-Heroes Icon Gallery [7/05] Adnan Hussain's 30th Century's Greatest Heroes page (cover gallery) [7/04] Lev Kalman's Legion of Super-Heroes page Other: [7/22] Added World Sourcebook to LSH Offline/Reference Material section --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want your page linked here, or if you know of another page that's not here, please tell us about it! You can send your information to Michael Grabois [orbit@ix.netcom.com]. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSH on the Web * Mike Chary's LSH General Information Post http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~fchary/legion.html * Greg "Elmo" Morrow's LSH Other General Information Post http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~fchary/lshgip.html * Stuart Alford's LSH Page http://www.thecia.net/users/lsalford/lsh.html * Andrew Apold's Dr. Mayavale page http://www.magg.net/~mordru/mayavale.htm * Kynn Bartlett's FTP site ftp://ftp.idyllmtn.com/pub/kynn/legion/ o Benchmarks for the Legionnaires for the "DC Heroes" RPG o Statistics errata for the 2995 LSH Sourcebook o Mattis Keller's comprehensive LSH.HLP file, v2.0 * John Censullo's Outpost II: Legion E-zine ftp://users.aol.com/outpost2 o A Legion checklist 1958-1996 ftp://users.aol.com/outpost2pc for PC's ftp://users.aol.com/outpost2ma for Macs o Six issues (and counting) of an e-zine (MS Word format, though there's a viewer if you don't have Word) * Glenn Colby's Legion Cover Gallery http://www.realtime.net/~beatnik o scans of covers of Superboy and Superboy and the LSH from 197-253 (1973-1979) * Michael Grabois' Bits O' Legionnaire Business http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mgrabois/lsh.htm o The Anal Retentive Checklists (preboot and postboot appearances, reprints, and merchandise) o Unofficial Drinking Games (online, v2/v3, and postboot) o Tyroc trivia quiz o DC Superstars Society, along with LSH trivia quiz o Semi-official list of the ages of the various Legionnaires * Lisa Gunderson's Incarnations of Magic page http://titan.neca.com/~legion/index.html o White Witch and Amethyst o Legion and DC Links * JD Hancock's Mirror Lad's Legion of Super-Heroes Icon Gallery http://www.realtime.net/~jdh2/mirrorlad * Rob Hansen's Omninet: Welcome to the 30th Century http://www.interedu.com/hansen/legion3.html * Vernon Harmon's The Legion of Super-Heroes Omnicom http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/vernon/www/lsh.html o Omnicom: the Online Legion APA o Omnicom Archives o Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes and the 30th Century. o Legion Outpost (a Legion-dedicated MUSH) o (a number of outdated links, all of which are duplicated elsewhere) * Jeff Harvey's Legion of Super-Heroes Chronology http://hertz.njit.edu/~jrh7925/html/legion.html * Brad Horning's Klordny APA page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Brad_Horning/Klordny.htm o The Klordny APA Constitution o The Klordny APA FAQ o The Klordny APA history * Adnan Hussain's 30th Century's Greatest Heroes page http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6432/legion.htm o Custom made Legion-related pictures * Lev Kalman's Legion of Super-Heroes page http://home.earthlink.net/~levkowman/lsh/lsh.htm o Brainiac 5 for LSH leader campaign page o Matter-Eater Lad pictorial history * H. Jameel al Khafiz's Legion animals pages http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/ha09/superpets o The Super-Pets Home Page http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/usr/ha09/scpa.html o The Space Canine Patrol Agents Page * Mike Kooiman's Media Maelstrom http://members.aol.com/myke4/mykey.html o Legion Chronology (pre-Zero Hour): chronicles all significant Legion events up until Zero Hour o Legion Membership (pre-Zero Hour): A simple list of all pre-Zero Hour members. o Tenure in the Legion. A detail of the amount of time each Legionnaire served in pre-Zero Hour times o Legion Chronology (post-Zero Hour): chronicles Legion events since Zero Hour o Links to John Censullo's Outpost II: Legion E-zine * Yeechang Lee's home page http://www.columbia.edu/~ylee/ o Doug Atkinson's FAQ v2.0, written around 1993 during v4. o Mattis Keller's comprehensive LSH.HLP file, v2.0 (mirror site) * Charles LePage's LSH Chat Archive http://www.america.net/~cslepage/legion.html * Steve Mohundro's Kent Shakespeare Info Page http://rowlf.cc.wwu.edu:8080/~n9243585/lsh/shakespeare.html o Kent Shakespeare info page o LegionMUSH Nostalgia page o LegionMUSH FAQ * Tony Pi's Legionnaires Draft page http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~mordru/mmbentry.html o Mission Monitor Board (covering the entire main, supporting, and villain cast) * Don Sakers' Legion of Super-Heroes Page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MeerkatMeade/lsh.htm o A comprehensive index of LSH stories o A list of alternate-universe versions of the LSH o An annotated list of LSH stories that might have occurred during the infamous "Five-Year Gap" * Christopher Schmitt's Zero Hour fact file http://freenet3.scri.fsu.edu:81/users/schmittc/ZeroHour.html * Greg Sheets' Encyclopedia Galactica http://www.onu.edu/~stu3131/encygal.html o Brainiac 5's Medical Logs: Legionnaires' Powers o A History of the DC Universe o Interlac o a mirror of Mattis Keller's LSH.HLP file o Other resources * Will St. John's Insect Queen Home Page http://www.cfw.com/~stjohn/insectqueen/index.html * Dan Williams' The Legion of Super-Heroes WEB pages http://www.peak.org/~djwilli/lsh.html o About the Current Titles and Stories. o About the Legion before Zero Hour. o Information on how to join in on the lsh-l legion mail list. o V4 explained. o Here are some Legion pics generated by fans. o Legion Fans can't stop writing about the Legion. Here are some Legion fan fiction writings. o What Vernon does in his spare time. :-) * Jack Wilson's Writeups of Legion of Superheroes members for the Champions RPG http://www.cu-online.com/deejay-bin/team?legion --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSH elsewhere on the internet * AOL Chat Reports by Troy McNemar o Troy edits the chat logs from the twice-weekly AOL sessions into something semi-coherent, and posts them on the internet. o If you want the reports by mail instead, send an e-mail to troyesq@indirect.com asking to be put on the list. o The chats are archived at http://www.america.net/~cslepage/legion.htm * The DCU MUSH at IDYLLMTN.COM telnet://muds.idyllmtn.com:3333/ o Contains the former Legion Outpost MUSH and LegionMUSH * IRC chat on #lsh A real-time "chat" with fans, communicating via typing o Usually on the uncc.nc.us.dal.net server, port 6667 o Channel #lsh o To chat, just type what you want to say o Regularly scheduled each Tuesday night at 10pm Eastern/9pm Central US time (0300 GMT from April to October, 0400 GMT from October to April) * Lev's Pic-list o Lev Kalman (see his page above) draws a humorous Legion-related picture on the computer each week. o Send an e-mail to majordomo@idyllmtn.com o In the body of the message type: subscribe lev-pics * The LSH-L Mailing List at Idyllmtn.com o Send an e-mail to majordomo@idyllmtn.com o In the body of the message type: subscribe LSH-L o Traffic is very high (often over 100 messages per day), so if you have an e-mail limit you may want to get the digest instead o For a digest version, in the body of the message type: subscribe LSH-L-digest o Visit the archives at http://www.idyllmtn.com/archives/lsh-l/ * rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh news:rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh o Usenet newsgroup o Traffic averages around 30 messages per day, but gets higher when new issues come out --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSH online * America On-Line (AOL) Weekly chats with the creative teams; message boards o Legion of Super-Heroes Chat is held every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Legionnaires Chat is held every Thursday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. o Hit CTRL+K and get the "Keyword" box. Type "DC Chat" and then select the right chat room (usually labelled LSH or L*). If it's not there, it will be in either "DC Comics Online I" or "DC Comics Online II". If you need to change rooms, just close the window with the chat room. o Lots of new and long-time fans attend as well as pros; past pro attendees have included Ron Boyd, John Byrne, Cory Carani, KC Carlson, Mike McAvennie, Tom McCraw, Jeff Moy, Tom Peyer, Roger Stern, and Mark Waid o For the Legion message board, Keyword "DC Comics", then click on the button on the Superman picture. Click on the "Convention Center" in the Gotham City skyline. The Legion folder is in the DC Universe folder. * Compuserve Information Service (CIS) Comics and Animation Forum o from main menu, use the "GO" interface (press the stoplight icon or CTRL+G) and type GO COMICS o Best places to post messages are section 1 (General) and 3 (Comic Books) o Frequent contributors to LSH threads are McCraw, Moy, Waid, and Kurt Busiek o Lots of new and long-time fans --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSH offline * Conventions o Legion creators are frequently at major conventions, in particular San Diego and Chicago. o There is usually a dinner planned for those fans and creators who want to attend, mostly from the online community. o Conventions are a good chance to meet the creative team, get autographs, and buy sketches. o There may even be a special panel for the Legion. * Dinners o The fans don't have to wait for conventions to have dinner together; all it takes is someone to get the ball rolling. o A recent dinner in New York City was attended by Carlson, McCraw, and a dozen fans from as far away as Washington DC. * Reference Material o Amazing World of DC Comics #9 (1 issue, 11/75), published as a fanzine by DC Comics. o The [Official] Legion of Super-Heroes Index (5 issues, 12/86-5/87), published by Independent Comics Group, written by Mark Waid. This series indexed each major appearance of the Legion from Adventure 247 (4/58) to Action 390 (7/70). Included in each issue is a bio of the Legionnaires that joined during the period covered in that issue, a cover reproduction, creator credits, all characters (including annotated chronologies), comments, and a synopsis. Waid indexed up to v3 #28, but the series was cancelled before all his information could be published. o Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes (7 issues, 4/88-11-88), published by DC Comics, written by Barbara Randall [Kesel], with Paul Levitz as research consultant and Mark Waid and Karen Berger as editors. This was a Legion-specific version of DC's Who's Who in the DC Universe series, which was a listing of virtually all DC characters in an encyclopedia-like format. This series focused on the Legion and its supporting cast of heroes, villains, friends, and relatives. In addition to listings and pictures of everyone from Absorbancy Boy to Zymyr, it also touched on the Legion's history, homeworlds, Interlac, the Mission Monitor Board symbols, the Legion Constitution, HQ, Earth, and Metropolis. o Character Sourcebook (item #213, 1986), published as part of a role-playing game system by Mayfair, co-written by then-current writer Paul Levitz. o World Sourcebook (item #216, 1986), published as part of a role-playing game system by Mayfair. o Atlas of the DC Universe (item #247, 1987), published as part of a role-playing game system by Mayfair. o Character Sourcebook 2995 (item #263, 1988), published as part of a role-playing game system by Mayfair, co-written by then-current writers Tom and Mary Bierbaum. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------