Podcasts about substitute heroes

Is someone getting married, or is this the ol' bait and switch? The untold origin of Colossal Boy awaits! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 3 #39 "The One That Got Away" October 1987 - On Sale June 16, 1987 w: Paul Levitz a: Greg LaRocque/Curt Swan It's the untold history of Colossal Boy! LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 3 ANNUAL #3 "There's No Substitute For The Real Thing" October 1987 - On Sale June 30, 1987 w: Paul Levitz a: Greg LaRocque/Mike DeCarlo/Arne Starr Must there be a Legion of Substitute Heroes?

Is someone getting married, or is this the ol' bait and switch? The untold origin of Colossal Boy awaits! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 3 #39 "The One That Got Away" October 1987 - On Sale June 16, 1987 w: Paul Levitz a: Greg LaRocque/Curt Swan It's the untold history of Colossal Boy! LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES VOL 3 ANNUAL #3 "There's No Substitute For The Real Thing" October 1987 - On Sale June 30, 1987 w: Paul Levitz a: Greg LaRocque/Mike DeCarlo/Arne Starr Must there be a Legion of Substitute Heroes?

This week we're talking about all the subs out there...substitutes, that is. That's right, the Doc is talking about the Legion of Substitute Heroes!   Intro Music by Aaron Barry   To ask questions for the next episode, or to continue the conversation online visit us here: On Facebook  On Instagram On our Website Or check out our new store for merch And our Patreon!

This week, we take a look at Legion of Substitute-Heroes Special #1, and discover the point where the Substitute Legion became the butt of the joke. Punching up? Punching down? Let's discuss. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_747963" align="alignright" width="223"] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link[/caption] LEGION OF SUBSTITUTE HEROES SPECIAL #1 "You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down" July 1985 - On Sale March 12, 1985 w: Keith Giffen/Paul Levitz a: Keith Giffen/Karl Kesel Pulsar Stargrave returns, with Matter-Eater Lad's homeworld as his next target! Can the Substitute Heroes stop the most powerful foe the Legion ever faced?

This week, we take a look at Legion of Substitute-Heroes Special #1, and discover the point where the Substitute Legion became the butt of the joke. Punching up? Punching down? Let's discuss. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_747963" align="alignright" width="223"] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link[/caption] LEGION OF SUBSTITUTE HEROES SPECIAL #1 "You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down" July 1985 - On Sale March 12, 1985 w: Keith Giffen/Paul Levitz a: Keith Giffen/Karl Kesel Pulsar Stargrave returns, with Matter-Eater Lad's homeworld as his next target! Can the Substitute Heroes stop the most powerful foe the Legion ever faced?

This week, we take a look at Legion of Substitute-Heroes Special #1, and discover the point where the Substitute Legion became the butt of the joke. Punching up? Punching down? Let's discuss. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_747963" align="alignright" width="223"] You can purchase this issue via our Amazon affiliate link[/caption] LEGION OF SUBSTITUTE HEROES SPECIAL #1 "You Can't Keep a Good Villain Down" July 1985 - On Sale March 12, 1985 w: Keith Giffen/Paul Levitz a: Keith Giffen/Karl Kesel Pulsar Stargrave returns, with Matter-Eater Lad's homeworld as his next target! Can the Substitute Heroes stop the most powerful foe the Legion ever faced?

Let's wrap up the weird tournament we started last week: Our latest FlopFight, featuring maids and butlers from sitcoms, cartoons, and beyond. We have TV characters from the 60s like Lurch (The Addams Family), Mr. French (Family Affair), and Rosie the Robot (The Jetsons). From the 80s we have Mr. Belvedere (from, you know, Mr. Belvedere), Nell (Gimme a Break), and even more maids from Diff'rent Strokes. And once again our special guest judge is Joe Crowe, Co-Director of the DragonCon American Sci-Fi Classics Track! Along the way, Kornflake celebrates Moonshine Day! Kevin has a squouse infestation! (A what?) Joe brings us Tales of the Nedra Volz Appreciation Society! We accidentally create a (perhaps inappropriate) new member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes! And one of us provides a pretty remarkable impression of Leon Redbone! So yeah, it gets a little silly. But only one maid or butler will survive. To make it more interesting, put some money down on your favorite. If you're Richie Rich, either your super-strong butler Cadbury or your robot maid Irona can fetch your wallet. Find Joe at DragonCon's American Sci-Fi Classics Track! And our regular links... The Flopcast website! The ESO Network! The Flopcast on Facebook! The Flopcast on Instagram! The Flopcast on Mastadon! Please rate and review The Flopcast on Apple Podcasts! Email: info@flopcast.net Our music is by The Sponge Awareness Foundation! This week's promo: Con Guy!  

On this Tales of the Legion Project, Peter and I discuss Legion of Super-Heroes v3 Annual #3, "There's No Substitute for the Real Thing"! (00:21) Preamble (09:58) Legion of Super-Heroes Annual 3 synopsis, general thoughts, and cover discussion (33:23) Main discussion (1:46:21) Who's Who Update '87 #3: Legion of Substitute Heroes (1:48:11) Wrap-up and outro MUSIC INTRO/OUTRO: “Invasion” by Blake Neely from the Flash Season 3 original television soundtrack The Legion Project Forum: https://justanotherfanboy.freeforums.net/board/19/legion-project Please leave comments below, send your comments to longboxreview@gmail.com or peter@thedailyrios.com, or chat with us @longboxreview or @peterjrios on Twitter. Thanks for listening!

Greg Thompson is a writer-producer known for Bob's Burgers, Glenn Martin D.D.S., and King of The Hill.Greg Thompson on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860188/Greg Thompson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregthompMichael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAutogenerated TranscriptionsGreg Thompson:Try to pay attention to the voices of the show. Know the show. Watch, watch every episode. Um, you know, when we were hired on King of the Hill, I, I'd watched King of the Hill, but I hadn't seen everything. But, you know, I methodically started plowing through hundreds of episodes at that point. I think maybe 200 episodes had happened by the time we, we joined it. So, and that's just kind of an education and you internalize the voices of the characters and, and it, it helps you. It helps you know what to pitch. You'reMichael Jamin:Listening to Screenwriters. Need to Hear This with Michael Jen.Hey everyone. Welcome to Screenwriters. Need to hear this. I'm Michael Jamin and I got another special guest today. This is my old friend. I'm gonna, this is my friend Greg Thompson, and I'm gonna give you a proper introduction, Greg. So sit down, just relax. Let me just talk to the people for a second. Um, so Greg is a very successful TV writer and he started on bunk, a show called Bunk Bread Brothers. We're gonna run through some of, through some of the credits. I'm heard of Bunk Bread Brothers, then fired up, which was interesting. This was the heyday of nbc. This was when, uh, the character she lived instead of a clock. She was, she was a church mouse, wasn't she? GregGreg Thompson:. Yeah, she was a church MassMichael Jamin:WhoGreg Thompson:Is second, second season. She moved into a shoe, uh,Michael Jamin:.Greg Thompson:It was Sharon Lawrence with, uh, Leah Remedy.Michael Jamin:Ah, Sharon Lawrence with Leah Remedy. This was back in the heyday of NBC shows like, uh, musty tv. And then a show called, I'm gonna run through some of your credits. Maggie, big Wolf on campus, then one of your bigger credits. 30, uh, third Rock from the Sun. Great show, then Grounded for Life. Another great show. Everyone hates Chris. Everybody hates Chris. Everybody hates Chris. Another great show. I'm in Hell. We're gonna talk about that. King of the Hill. You were there for many years. Glen Martin, dds. I never heard of that one, but I was involved in it. then Now, most recently you were writer, what are you executive, co-executive producer on Bob's Bergs.Greg Thompson:So I, I'm, I'm down to consulting producer. Technically I was we'll talk, I was co exec. I was actually executive, I was actually executive producer to be, to be most technical. Well, yeah, we all got promoted up to executive producer after aMichael Jamin:Certain And what happened? Why did you get bounced down to co exec? I mean, a consulting producer.Greg Thompson:I decided to rank fewer, fewer days a week. So I, I've, I've, am I, do you still want me on the show?Michael Jamin:Yeah, I'm, now I'm jealous of you. How many days a week are you working?Greg Thompson:I only work two days.Michael Jamin:Oh. And of those two days, how many days are you really working? ?Greg Thompson:I don't know. Probably four. Cuz it filters into other days andMichael Jamin:Yeah,Greg Thompson:It does over it also. Yeah.Michael Jamin:We're gonna talk about that. But I wanna get into the beginning, Greg. Cause I, I, I, so we met in the Warner Brothers Writers Program, writers workshop, or whatever it was called. Yeah, we did. And you were, were supposed to be you and your partner. Our Abrams were supposed to be the competition that me and Seavert were facing. And, but very quickly we realized we weren't, we weren't gonna, we weren't gonna make good enemies, friends and love.But, but I gotta say, Greg, you've always been, and I know I've never, probably never said this to you personally, but you were, it may seem odd since we don't talk that often, but you were definitely one of my closer friends, closest friends in the industry, because I always feel like I, I feel like we're not in competition. I can always be, I can confide in you to tell you what's going on with my career. I never feel like I'm gonna get stabbed in the back. You always got my back. I got your back. So you, you've always been a great friend. And that's why as I thank, thank you for doing the show and helping everyone Oh, tell your story.Greg Thompson:You're, you're very welcome. You, of course, it's of course it's mutual. Um, and I'll just say at the Radcliffe or at the, uh, pardon me, the Writer's Warner Brothers Writer's Workshop, um, I was, uh, so intimidated by you and Seavert. I, uh, you like you, we were kind of sited. We were seated in kind of a big o and you were, you guys were like across the room and you already, you already had credit. You had a credit on Lois and Clark, which was like, you know, incredibly impressive. We didn't have credits.Michael Jamin:That's what you were, that's what you're, because there was no other reason to be intimidated by us. So we never said anything like, IGreg Thompson:Think, I don't know, you just, you looked, you looked the right part. Sea had this kind of scowl on his face all the time, which, which was very untrue to his personality. But he just looked, uh, super serious. Like, like heMichael Jamin:WasGreg Thompson:Interesting figuring it all out.Michael Jamin:Turns out neither of us. It was a prestigious program. And, and it didn't help either of us. It didn't help. It definitely didn't help. But it didn't help you did itGreg Thompson:Other than Well, it, it did get us, it did lead us to an agent, which then, which then led us to our first job. So it actually did help us, even though the Warner Brothers, the studio was not interested in hiring us,Michael Jamin:Right? So after,Greg Thompson:After watching us work,Michael Jamin:As I tell our audience to catch 'em up, um, so yeah, we worked together. So we never worked together. We were just, we became friends on that. And then later, then later we shared a bungalow. We both had overall deals at CBS Radford. And so we shared a bungalow. We'd have lunch together. Remember we'd hang out in your office and just talk about ideas. Bounce Yeah. Each other that think an overall deal's great. That was fun. And then later was, no, king Hill was before that.Greg Thompson:King Hill was beforeMichael Jamin:That. Right? And then later Radford, our overall deal. Then later we hired you guys on, on Glen Martin. And you guys saved our butts. You and your partner Aaron, saved our butts. And then how did I Thank you. I almost, I almost thanked you by destroying your career. . I only remember you guys, you guys came in, was it, it was season two, right? Of Glen Martin.Greg Thompson:Yeah. Season two. Yeah.Michael Jamin:We, we brought you in. We had the money. We wanted very, we wanted season writers. And you guys came in, you always delivered great drafts, which is, is, I always say, this is all you want from a writer. Can you turn in a good draft? And you guys always did. And then there was talk of spinning off Glen Martin to a spinoff. And I remember we were like, Hey, we'll do this show. And then you could run the other show or which one, one or the other you guys could run. And you're like, eh, we got this other offer to go to this cartoon called Bob's Burgers. You don't wanna go to Bob's Burgers,Greg Thompson:,Michael Jamin:You wanna stay here? . And then, and thank God you took that offer, cuz I would've felt terrible like ruining your career. Cause that they spinoff never happened. . And then Glen Martin was canceled and it jumped off just in time to go to,Greg Thompson:There was an idea that Glen Martin was gonna jump to Fox or something, andMichael Jamin:There was a lot of lies floating .Greg Thompson:Yeah. It was probably Michael Eisner was planning these thoughts.Michael Jamin:Um, right. I forgot Fox. Fox didn't, Fox had no, had no knowledge of that. They weren't on Greg Thompson:. But, uh, yeah. But yeah, I think we all thought the puppet animation genre was gonna explode. And, and I have to say, it's really funny. It's still, when I look at, I've dug up some old Glen Martin's. It is really funny. I mean, it is, it was an underrated show under watched certainly, but also underrated.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Yeah. It was, we did some good stuff. You guys wrote some great episodes. But then, so you got the offer because Bob's Burgers co-create by Jim Dore. We both work with on King of the Hill. So he reached out to you guys. How did you have this Bob about, and why didn't he reach out to us? ?Greg Thompson:I didn't probably You were working. You, you're busy. Um, weMichael Jamin:Were busyGreg Thompson:Developed by Jim DotR. I should make sure I say that properly. Created by Lauren Bouchard, developed by Jim DotR. Um, yeah, he was just staffing up. And actually he, he had hired two other guys, uh, before us. And then there, um, and gosh, I'm blanking blanket on their names. Sorry. Um, but they had a pilot going, and their pilot got picked up to production. So they had to drop out of Bob's burger's mm-hmm. . And, and then that opened up a slot and Jim, Jim called us to, to come interview for it. And we saw the That's been, and, and you guys, you guys let us out of our Glen Martin deal early by the way. You, you did us a favor that not everybody would've done.Michael Jamin:That's that is true. Now some people wouldn't. But, but I think most,Greg Thompson:I most, I think most would good, good people would,Michael Jamin:Good people let you out. Our contract. Um, and so, and how many that was 2008, you've been on that? Oh, no,Greg Thompson:That was 2000, 2010. We went over there, 10, I think we, we went over to Glen Martin. We were there for actually second half of the first season through most of the second season.Michael Jamin:Oh, that's what it wasGreg Thompson:Like Glen Martin. Yeah. So I think we wrote It'sMichael Jamin:A amazing song. You've been on Bob's Burgers. It's crazy. Like that's, that's job security.Greg Thompson:Yeah, I was thinking, yeah, it's, it's 12 over 12 years now. And I, I'm wearing, um, I'm wearing the first piece of swag we ever got on Bob's. I don't know if it's visible on camera or not. This, this, uh, old hoodie, which is now just in taters. It's 12 years old. AndMichael Jamin:Do you, is it hard coming up with stories that at the, for 12 years?Greg Thompson:Yes. Yes. Very hard. Um, also because unlike The Simpsons, which is kind of branched off into the peripheral characters, they'll do a episode about APU or whatever they used to. Anyway. Um, Bob's stays with the, the family. Right. And, and doMichael Jamin:You, how, how does the musical numbers work? How do you guys produce, you know, how do you write and produce that?Greg Thompson:Uh, well, I, Lauren is extremely musical. Lauren Bouchard very musical. So he always had, you know, a big interest in that. And he can, he can write and play. And then there are, you know, there are, uh, musical people, you know, uh, uh, on the show.Michael Jamin:Who writing the lyrics for that? Do you write some script or what?Greg Thompson:Well, we do, yeah. Yeah. Most of the writers will write some lyrics. I've written. Yeah, I've written some lyrics. And that's, you know, don't write the music occasionally. You might like take a stab at a tune for something silly, but yeah. And that's, that's like, and that's, that's like funMichael Jamin:For the music as wellGreg Thompson:Then. Yeah. Yeah. You do like the, um, yeah, we're like members of ASCAP or BMI or something. Yeah. And, um, yeah, there's actually been, um, two Bobs Burgers record albums that have come out. Didn't that sub pop?Michael Jamin:Were you with the movie as well,Greg Thompson:Though? Yeah, I mean, to a limited degree. It was, the movie was, was really written by, by Lauren and Nora Smith, who's also the, you know, his number two, she's also Show Runner. Um, and then, but all the other writers pitched in on Story and, and jokes and, you know, we looked at lots of cuts. And so we, we were, we were part of it. Uh, we're, we have credit, but, um, but they did the, uh, heavy lifting for sure.Michael Jamin:And, you know, you're kind of like the last writer, Guild of America. Cartoon , one of the last, right. I mean, you're covered by the writer Guild, right? It's not ascap. I mean, notGreg Thompson:Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, it's a, yeah, it's a, it's a writer's guilded show. Yeah. And I guess, like, I don't know, not to tell Tales Outta School. I think Disney is still trying to, you know, put shows on the air on, you know, Disney now owns 20th Century Fox Television. Um, still try to get, you know, II covered shows, which that's a, a guild with fewer, bene fewer benefits for your, your viewers.Michael Jamin:It's nonstarter now. It's like, it's, I, it's, it's the animation.Greg Thompson:Oh, is it really? Yeah. Okay. Things are tough. Okay. I didn't realize that.Michael Jamin:How did you, now you didn't start you, what was your career for the, for people who are listening, what was your career before you got into writing? I'll start from theGreg Thompson:Beginning. Um,Michael Jamin:Year was 1948.Greg Thompson:. I was, I was 12. The, uh, that wasThe, I I would just say in brief that like, I always loved television growing up. I loved movies and television. Uh, and I, I became a writing major in college, uh, creative writing major, which wasn't, wasn't a good idea. Uh, but at all that time, it never occurred to me that there were people that wrote television . I never looked at the credits. And so it never occurred to me that there would be a career doing screenwriting. Um, and so after I got outta college, I went into, I moved to New York and I got into, uh, book publishing and was a, worked in marketing for a few different publishers. Uh, book and magazine publishing. And that was go, that was my career. That was what I was doing. I was gonna be kind of a business person. And, you know, in, I wore a suit, uh, took the subway.Um, and then I went to business school to get an MBA thinking, well, that's the next step of my, my, uh, tremendous business career. And that brought me out to LA afterwards to work at the LA Times. Um, and, uh, uh, Aaron Abrams. So you bet you, before my friend, uh, had split up with his wife, he'd moved out to LA to be a screenwriter, and then his marriage had blown up. Um, so he had an empty bedroom. And I moved in with him to begin my job at the LA Times. And Aaron was trying to be a screenwriter. And so for the,Michael Jamin:From college,Greg Thompson:Uh, yeah, we kind of, we did an equivalent of the, uh, we, we did a little, uh, summer school publishing bootcamp kind of thing. Um, interesting. One summer after college, like a six week program, a little like the, the sitcom writing workshop in a way, but for people interested in publishing. Um, and so just like a summer school thing. So I met him doing that. We, we hit it off. We had, you know, kind of this instant, instant rapport. Um, and, uh, I thought he was hilarious and everything. And so I wasn't surprised when he eventually decided that he was gonna try to be a screenwriter. So then I move into the, I move into his, uh, terrible, messy apartment. Um, and, and I see like he is got a bunch of scripts. I'd never seen a script before. Uh, you know, it's kind of, it was pre-internet.You couldn't like, download scripts. It's like, oh, wow, this is weird. So that led me to reading scripts, talking to Aaron about what he was doing. Uh, you know, he very generously would ask me to read things he was working on and ask if I had any ideas or thoughts. Uh, and, and then, and then, and then Aaron suggested we were, we were having some conversation about the, uh, actually the NFL player's strike, uh, of the eighties. And he said, I always thought that would be an interesting movie. Um, so, uh, then he said, do you wanna try to write a movie about that with me? So together, we basically hammered out this, um, comedy that did not become the, was it a Keanu Reeves movie, but was The Replacements. Ours was called Substitute Heroes. And it was much like The Replacements. And, and that was the first thing we wrote together. And that ended up, um, we ended up selling that for a guild minimum to some place.Michael Jamin:Hey, it's Michael Jamin. If you like my videos and you want me to email them to you for free, join my watch list. Every Friday I send out my top three videos. These are for writers, actors, creative types. You can unsubscribe whenever you want. I'm not gonna spam you, and it's absolutely free. Just go to michael jamin.com/watchlist.Greg Thompson:The substitution Heroes, where did you sell it? Football comedy. Yeah.Michael Jamin:AndGreg Thompson:Where did you want? And it ended up selling to like, uh, some producers for Guild minimum, um, low budget minimum, which was I think like $26,000 or something like that. Or maybe, maybe more. Uh, but that was, I, you know, obviously that would be thrilling even now to sell a movie for, you know, a little bit of money. So it was very thrilling to, to me and, um, and Aaron. And so, and then at the same time, like I'm working my LA Times job, and I wasn't enjoying that a ton. You know, I was in like this, I don't know, weird little group called Market Planning. And we'd do these like analyses of like Orange County advertising market and stuff that no one would ever look at. Um, and, uh, and the LA Times was a place, I always remember this. They would do casual Friday, one day a month.So you had to, you had to remember what Friday remember? Casual. Casual. That was before we were casual all the time. Yeah. Right. So you had to remember what Friday of the month was, casual Friday. So you could not wear your suit. Um, and then for our, uh, Christmas party, we had a, like an annual Christmas party. You'd have to come in an hour early that morning. And the, the Christmas party would be like, between the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 AM , or 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM I, I forget when work started , at least in my department, that's,Michael Jamin:You have to get up to your party. Some party.Greg Thompson:It wasn't . Yeah, no, it wasn't, it wasn't festiveMichael Jamin:.Greg Thompson:So it was that there was that kind of, it was that kind of play. So meanwhile, you know, then I'm like, you know, thinking, oh, well this, this screenwriting thing's working out great. I'll do that instead. Um, you know, and I think, you know, like, you know, we are getting a lot of meetings and I think, you know, in Hollywood, like a meeting sounds exciting. Yeah. It'll almost inevitably lead to nothing. But still for a moment you feel like, you know, you're driving on a lot, you have a pass, they're waiting for you, you sit down, someone brings you out water, you feel important. And, and it's, the people you're meeting with are almost always just filling their schedule to feel important. Yes. So you go in there and together, all of you feel important, and then you leave. ItMichael Jamin:Sounds like you're, you've listened to my podcast. Cause I've said these words many times.Greg Thompson:OhMichael Jamin:Yes, go important, but go on. Right. Then go. What happened?Greg Thompson:Uh, so then, um, I, I remember Aaron was like, he had this, um, he played like beach volleyball, uh, in this like league or something like that, even though he was terrible. ButMichael Jamin:I don't, I don't believe that part of his story,Greg Thompson:But, well, I'll say he was on a beach volleyball team. Whether you could describe it as playing, I don't know. But I think he was trying to beat girls. And so, but he, but there were a couple like TV writers in his, in the beach volleyball group, and he said, these guys are all doing great. They all have like, big houses. Uh, they're so successful. We should like, let's forget movies. Let's try to write television. So we started working on, uh, some spec scripts, as you know, I'm sure you've probably talked about that at different times. And, uh, you know, we wrote an Ellen, you know, and a spec is your sample to get hired onto a show. We wrote an Ellen that I thought was great, uh, that I still remember what it was about. It was about Ellen dates her assertiveness instructor and then can't break up with him because she's not assertive enough. Which,Michael Jamin:Funny.Greg Thompson:Well, well, for one thing, I, I don't know if there is such a thing as an assertive assertiveness instructor , I think it felt, it felt right to us in 1994 or so. Um, but, you know, but we thought, okay, we've nailed it. We've written one spec, now we're gonna, now our career will begin in television. And everybody hated it. And I mean, you've probably experienced this, or people experienced people who've felt this way. They fall in love with their spec. They think their spec is great. It's really the, the first spec they've written. And they become very, very attached to it. Not attached to every part of it. Every, every element. They're not receptive to notes. And I, I think I was certainly that way about this, this one, but the, uh, the feedback was so uniformly negative. It was like, okay, well let's , I think we have to write another one. So we wrote a Larry Sanders uhhuh, uh, a Larry Sanders spec, which went much better. It was just a much better show for us. It was more in our sensibility. It was. So, uh, that's the one that, uh, we ended up using to get into the, uh, Warner Brothers sitcom writing workshop.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And that, the rest, now Aaron, Aaron Abras was this, you know, we were both friends. One of the sweetest guys you ever met. And then he tragically died halfway through your career. And then I remember, I mean, it was just awful, but I remember either calling you or writing to you, and I was like, listen, cuz you had to reinvent your career at that point. You were, you had a writing partner that you relied on and you bounced things off. And then you had to become a solo writer. And I remember reaching out to you saying, listen, if, like, if you wanna, if you might need to write new samples, if you want help breaking a story or anything, like just call me receiver. Well, happy. But, but you never did. What wasGreg Thompson:That like? I re I re I I, I, I do remember that, and I still grateful for that. Uh, but you and Stever both reached out and were were terrific during that time. Um, it was, it was fortunate for me that I was on Bob's burgers. We had done, Aaron and I had done a season on Bob's, so, uh, it hadn't even aired yet. Um, but it was, I'm trying to think when it got it. Season two order, I guess it didn't get that until it had aired for a few, a few weeks. Um, once Bob's began airing and the show got picked up for another season, which was a little nip and tuck, cuz the ratings were a little, um, or touch and go rather, uh, uh, the Lauren and Jim offered me, you know, the opportunity to come back as a solo writer. Uh, so I, I did not have to produce those other specs. I did have to write a pilot that Aaron and I had been contracted to write. So I had to, I did have to finish the pilot. We'd outlined it, but we hadn't written it yet. And, um, I had to, I had to write it. But when you, that was, so that was the first thing I wrote.Michael Jamin:And was it like, even now, do you hear his voice? Like, do you think, what would Aaron do here? Or, or are you like, you know, now this is, are you, you know, areGreg Thompson:You Yeah, no, I I I, I still totally do. Uh, I mean, he was, he's such a funny guy and, you know, it was, you know, he used to say like, you know, the, unfortunately the funny person of the writing team died. So the, the, the guy who's like, does little, I don't even know what my specialty was, kind of doing things Aaron did, but a little less well founded. Uh, and, um, but yeah, no, I'll, I'll sometimes if I'm, if I'm writing and if a, a joke will occur to me, and I'll think that is an Aaron kind of joke, right. You know, that that's, that's his sensibility. So as much as I can cha uh, channel, uh, Aaron's voice, I, I I try to, um, he was, you know, just a unique voice.Michael Jamin:I imagine it would be honestly be a little paralyzing that first, at least the first couple of scripts you're like, I'm, I'm, I'm flying solo here.Greg Thompson:Yeah. Uh, and I, you know, I don't know how it is with you and Seaver, I think, you know, you, you do work separately at times. I know. Um, but, uh, every, everything Aaron and I had written, we'd written together in the same room. You know, we might go off and work on a scene by ourselves for a while and then share it, but mostly it was like kind of taking turns at a keyboard while the other guy was there in the room. Yeah. Uh, looking, you know, looking over the shoulder. So it was, uh, it was, you know, a pretty, um, uh, uh, close writing situation. So yeah, I just, um, I, I, I would do a couple tricks of, I would, I remember the, when I was writing the pilot, uh, it was like, okay, I'm gonna write the scenes that I think are easier to write first.Mm-hmm. . And so I wrote scenes out of order just to make progress. Right. Uh, and so then when you make a little progress, you begin to feel better, you begin to feel more confident. Um, right. And, and I also, and I still do this, I'll, I'll write a scene maybe with some, some of the dialogue at all caps, which is my way of saying this is not the dialogue. This is an approximation of what has to be said here in this moment. Uh, just to get through it, just to get through it so I don't get stuck. Um, yeah. Uh, because yeah, I mean, Erin and I would, we'd, we would try to do as little rewriting as possible, just maybe outta laziness. So we would kind of get a lot of consensus on everything before we wrote, uh, or as, you know, as we worked our way down the page. But as a, as a solo writer, I just couldn't do that. It was like, Nope, I'm, I'm gonna have to do more revisions, I'll have to do more passes. Um mm-hmm. . So that's what, that's what I started doing.Michael Jamin:And now does it just feel comfortable on your own or, you know, I, it's interesting,Greg Thompson:You know, I know it, it, it does and it doesn't, it always feels a little in like, you know, right now I'm, you know, trying to come up with story ideas to write one and looking at the calendar and looking at how much time I have, and I think, oh God, am I gonna have enough time to break it? And, uh, you know, holidays are coming up that's gonna cut into time. Uh, so I, I always have a little bit of panic, and I think I'm known for this on the show of being fairly neurotic about scripts, worried I won't put it together. Uh, cuz you know, there's so many, so many, Michael, you know, there's so many jokes in the script, it's like several hundred by the time you're done. And it's like, oh, how will I think of all those jokes?Michael Jamin:It's that, that's the part that's intimidating to me. It's the getting the story out. Well,Greg Thompson:Yeah, no, I mean, the story, you know, obviously the most important part. Um, but, you know, every element is hard. And so it's whatMichael Jamin:Now how mu like how is it run, how is it differently working on Bob's workers than it was either at Glen Martin or Kim King of the Hill for you? You know, the process.Greg Thompson:Uh, I'd say Bob's Berger's, it's much more, uh, you kind of become your own little executive producer of your episode all the way through production, you know, and basically, most of the times you will be coming up with the idea of your episode. You will be pitching it, you will be running the room, uh mm-hmm. as you, you know, put, uh, break the story. Uh, you know, then you're updating, you know, Lauren, the, and Laura, the showrunners. But you're, it's, it's kind of on you. It's, it's not, it's not like, and there will be people breaking stories simultaneously, which I guess was what we had at King of the Hill too. Yeah. Uh, a a few small rooms, um, but it isn't like probably most of television today still where it's everybody around a table, the whole staff breaking one story at a time. Right. With, you know, walking through the beats on a, on a board, kind of assembling it all, everybody, the staff, everybody together. It's, it's more individual. Uh, you, you, we kind of have more rope to, you know, make magic or get in trouble.Michael Jamin:And now you're doing, you're consulting, which is so interesting, just a couple days a week. Um, yeah. What, how's that for you working out? Everyone talks about what?Greg Thompson:It's,Michael Jamin:It'sGreg Thompson:Perfect. It's simultaneous with, it's simultaneous with C so it's, it's, it's hard to separate the two in a way. So it's, so far it's been people are beginning to come back to the office, but for the last two and a half years, it's been all Zoom.Michael Jamin:Yeah. Uh,Greg Thompson:And uh, I would say like, if I didn't have to like write scripts occasionally, it would be fent it would be so easy. I mean, not easy, but, but it's always like, you know, if you could sit back and give people pitches on their episode all day, and it's like, well, here's my idea. If it works, terrific. If it doesn't work, well , you know, it's not my problem. It it is. ButMichael Jamin:Do you think you'll stay there for, for a, for a while longer? What do you, what are your plans? Do you have any?Greg Thompson:I I, I, you know, I've just kind of taken it year by year. Uh, the, um, we'll see, um, I don't know. It's, it's still been a fun thing and, and most of the staff is the same staff as when we first grouped up 12 years ago.Michael Jamin:No one's, no one's leaving back, back when we started, um, uh, you know, we, you could jump shows, you might work on a show for a couple years, then jumped to another show. But now with the market, you'd be crazy to leave any show if you're on a show, you stay there and you hang on for dear life.Greg Thompson:I think so. I think so. I think that's been true of Bob's and, you know, uh, Wendy and Lizzie Molino, two of to have really, you know, very funny writers on, on Bob's. They did, they left only because they developed their own show, uh, the Great North. So, but despite that, they still have a hand in Bob's and write an episode a year. So nobody really wants to let go of Bob's.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And then, uh, yeah. Do you, are you developing at all? Have you tried to develop in recent years or,Greg Thompson:You know, I, past the first year, no, I haven't, I haven't tried to develop, and that's, you know, I have to say that's a little bit of laziness on my part. Like, you know, why do I wanna develop myself out of a job, this great job on Bob's? Uh, yeah. And, and also it was like, you know, we, Aaron and I, Aaron and I think did like eight or nine pilots, only one produced, but it was always really hard and, uh, a distressing experience. You'd, you'd, you know, we'd go in full of, full of ambition and hopes and dreams of how this next pilot was gonna be great. And then, and then you'd get so ground down by the process, we'd be miserable and hate, and hate our pilot by the end of it. Michael Jamin:People don't under no understanding, uh, of how the industry actually works. That's what I'm trying to educate them. But like we say the same things, like if we didn't have, if we were on full time staff, we, we wouldn't have to develop, we wouldn't run out to develop. It's only because staffs, the orders are so much shorter that you kind of have to, if you wanna make a living, you gotta sell what you gotta,Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, tell provision's changed, changed it that way. So so, you know, I'm a little embarrassed. I haven't, you know, tried to develop in the last decade, but I don't know, I'm just,Michael Jamin:So what, what advice do you have? Do you, I mean, are you bringing on any young writers or what advice do you have when you see a young writer join the show?Greg Thompson:Uh, well, boy, I don't know. I guess it would be the advice. Uh, I'd give any young writer, you know, just try to, try to pay attention to the voices of the show. Know the show, watch, watch every episode. You know, when we were hired on King of the Hill, I, I'd watched King of the Hill, but I hadn't seen everything. But, you know, I methodically started plowing through hundreds of episodes at that point. I think maybe 200 episodes had happened by the time we, we joined it. So, and that's just kind of an education and you internalize the voices of the characters and, and it, it helps you, it helps you know what to pitch. So, you know, we'll, we'll have, obviously, like a new writer will often like, pitch an episode idea that we've kind of already done. And, you know, it's hard to catch up with everything, but you have to try.Michael Jamin:Right.Greg Thompson:And just, I guess trust that you're, trust that you're there for a reason and that your ideas are good and, you know, do your best.Michael Jamin:Right. Right. But it's a pretty supportive environment there, it sounds like.Greg Thompson:Oh, it's great. Yeah. No, it's, it's really a nice group of people. Um, you know, you've been on many staffs and I was on many staffs, and I think my experience was almost always good. Uh, I hope yours was too. But you know, the, I think we probably all have both had the experience of being in a room where you're sitting in the same, you're around a table, same table every day. You're not only that, but you're seated in the same seat every day. Mm-hmm. , uh, same person to the left, same person to the right. And, and sometimes there will be people who will make a point of only laughing at, uh, somebody's, somebody several people's pitches, but never several other people's pitches.Interesting. Trying to, right. Yeah. I mean, uh, and, uh, it, it is a little bit of a, and this is, you know, it was rare to have this experience, but, you know, maybe did once or twice, um, pe writers are trying to get their jokes in. Uh, they would rather have their joke in than a funnier joke from somebody else. So there is that, there is that bit of competition. And I'm not saying I would have the funnier joke that no one would want in or anything like that, but, uh, uh, it's, it's this natural, um, selfishness, self-preservation, I guess. Yeah. Of like, right. I must, I must have a certain number of jokes in the, in the episode, or I'm not, I'm not earning my, my morsel of meat Yeah. Today. Yeah. So, um, so there, you know, there is a competitiveness. And I think, I think some shows, I think very could be bad miserable places. Um, Bob's was a fantastic place. Everybody was great. Right. Everybody was supportive. Uh, everybody was funny. Uh, everybody is funny. So many great writers. So it's been a, a fantastic situation.Michael Jamin:And how, and you say you were, you're involved heavily in the production. So you'll watch the animatics, you'll give notes on the air, or do you watch all the automatics or just the ones you, you produce?Greg Thompson:Uh, we watch all thematics and colors. Uh, but the animat, you know, for your own episode, you, you will be, you know, more involved in notes and revisionismMichael Jamin:Just forGreg Thompson:People. And the,Michael Jamin:The a animat are the rough, uh, before like crude sketches of the, uh, cartoon, the animation. And then you give notes on that. And then, then it's more like for blocking, which before the character should do and what kind of shot you have. And then later they color it in and, you know, that's, then you, you give notes on that as well. But you, are you also at the record? Are you, um, recording the actors?Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, we've done that a few different ways. In the beginning of the show, it was the, uh, Bob's was unique in this, in that they, you'd have multiple actors in, you know, on, on Mike, uh, at the same time. And it would be a simultaneous recording, so you'd have overlap mm-hmm. , uh, and improv. And that was kind of a hallmark of Bob's. And then in, uh, as c happened, we had to kind of break that apart and actors were recording in their homes, and so we were getting them one at a time. Right. Um, and so now it's, it's kind of a little combination of,Michael Jamin:But are you direct in a way, the actress yourselves or someone else? One of the store runners directingGreg Thompson:Lauren, Lauren was the director for like the first 10 years mm-hmm. every episode. And then during Covid we began to direct our own episodes. Right. Uh, but now we're actually in the process of having one writer direct all the episodes, uh, uh, with the, uh, a writer producer will direct all of them. And just so there's kind of a, a unified voice coming from the directing booth. Right. Um, and then Theri, the writer is also there to give notes and suggestions.Michael Jamin:Roll their eyes. You're doing it wrong.Greg Thompson:Yeah. I'd say, no, that's not, that's not, it's goes. So, yeah. And uh, I'd say Lauren is kind of constantly tinkering with the process, trying to improve it, even after like 12 years you think it would, things would be, okay, this is how we do it, this is how we'll always do it. But no, it's still being, aspects of production are being reinvented and tinkered with all the time.Michael Jamin:It's a great show. Cause it has such a sweetness to it, such an earnestness to, uh, who knew, who knew it was gonna be sort of giant.Greg Thompson:It does. It does. Uh, and I know early on, like, um, you know, Aaron and I would pitch, uh, coming from a, well, I guess working on every other show, we pitched a lot of, like, stories that involved conflict between the family, you know, uh, that was a little maybe sharper than Lauren wanted to do. Yeah. He didn't want, you know, his thing is he doesn't ever want the characters being mean to each other. Right. Anything perceived as mean. And so, like, you know, like, oh, if you're watching most sitcoms, it's like, oh, I don't know, everybody's, everybody does this all the time. You know what, so, but he wanted something sweetie.Michael Jamin:Yeah. And it's a good instinct. When we, we, when we worked for, uh, Chris Lloyd who, you know, he ran Frazier for many years, and then later we worked for Man Practice. He used to say the same things. He, he would say Velvet Gloves. So when the characters slapped each other, they had to be wearing velvet gloves. So you never wanna hit too hard. Everyone saw too hard, you know, I was like, oh, that's, that's smart. I'll start using that wordGreg Thompson:. I won't do it, but I'll use the word. Yeah. Um, yeah. And, and, and certainly like, you know, one thing with the internet, now, you can see what everybody thinks of every episode and on Reddit. And do you guysMichael Jamin:Do that?Greg Thompson:Uh, Twitter? Do you go? Yeah. Yeah. DoesMichael Jamin:That change the way you write future episodes?Greg Thompson:I think a little, um, like we did an episode once where the family was on a game show, which is kind of an unusual episode for us. It was pretty early. And they end up kind of getting cheated out of their prize at the end of the game show. It's kind of a, they're kind of ripped off. Mm-hmm. and the ending, we thought, no, it's a great ending. It's, you know, it's, it's perfect. It's funny, it's, uh, it's television viewers hated the bels that that had happened to the Belchers that they'd been, it, it felt like an unsatisfying ending to many, many, many viewers. And they would keep bringing it up. In fact, they still bring it up, uh, online as, as a, an episode ending. They don't like, uh, and you know, I think maybe because it was an unearned, they hadn't really done anything wrong and they ended up being, you know, kind of robbed. So I think we, we avoid, we try to avoid lessons where they, or episodes where they just have complete egg on their face by the end. Right. There has to be some kind of little, little victory or something learned, something positive that comes outMichael Jamin:It. Yeah. That's interesting. It's interesting you take that few, cuz I never sire kind of does. I, I'm really kind, I stay away from, I don't want to hear about the reviews. I don't want to hear about what the viewers think, just wanna, you know, do my thing and cross my fingers. But it's, you know, different.Greg Thompson:I mean, that's probably healthier. But if it's an episode that I wrote that's airing, um, I just devour Twitter.Michael Jamin:Do you really?Greg Thompson:Trying to, trying to, uh, oh, yeah. No, I, I I definitely try to cherry pick , you know, any positive comments.Michael Jamin:We went on, geez, this is about a year ago, Sierra and I went on, I don't know when we went on YouTube to like, see what people were saying about Glen Martin. We hadn't watched the show in years. And, and then there's some guy from his basement, some young guy talking about the show and he nailed it. He, he was as if he was in the writer's room. Like he understood the show better, better than we did. And it was just hilarious to hear him take it apart. I was like, man, this guy,Greg Thompson:I think, did you send that around? Did you send that around to the writers? I kind of remember reading something that I thought, yeah, this guy's, this guy's good, thisMichael Jamin:Guy's, he was like a spy me. So much Funny .Greg Thompson:Yeah. Yeah.Michael Jamin:Wow.Greg Thompson:That, oh, it was a funny, it was a funny show. Does that air, I mean, does that, how does that, as a quick aside, is Glen Martin accessible on anyMichael Jamin:Platform? I think, yeah, I think it's on YouTube where you can watch it all for free. So we don't get any, I mean, we have some points and we don't get any of it. I don't think you make money by showing,Greg Thompson:But it'sMichael Jamin:For free.Greg Thompson:Did some, I mean, did some kid upload it or is it, is it like they're all this, whoever owns it, put it, putMichael Jamin:It on Michael Eisner there as a whole, like maybe we get enough used, like he can even sell it again somewhere. I'm like, you know, yeah. Sell it somewhere. Let's, let's bring it back. But I don't think we've pushed band to bring it back. I can't, we reboot Glen Martin. I don't think there's anything there. Oh, that's funny.Greg Thompson:Oh. Oh,Michael Jamin:Well,Greg Thompson:Uh,Michael Jamin:Greg, is there any place, is there anything you wanna plug? Do you wanna talk about your next season? Should people follow you anywhere? Is there anything you wanna get off your chest before eight?Greg Thompson:Oh, well, God, I'm not really on Twitter. No. I mean, I can't, it's, I'm unfollowable on social media cuz um, I don't know. Just, uh, I guess keep watching. Uh, uh, I kind of forget where we are production-wise. I never know what episodes about to air. Yeah. Cause as you know, the, the production schedule in in animation is very long. It's almost don'tMichael Jamin:Without nine months with you guys in almost a year.Greg Thompson:Well, it can be, you know, if, especially if you know, the order changes. Right. And, andMichael Jamin:How manyGreg Thompson:Episodes do you get, you know, after production. But it's a longMichael Jamin:Time. What, what is your order this year? Like 22?Greg Thompson:Uh, I think it's 22. I think it's, yeah, Bob's is one of the last, you know, shows that still gets a 22 order. Uh, and it does less so now, but it did, you know, repeat a lot too. So there was residuals involved. Um, so, but fortunateMichael Jamin:It worked out.Greg Thompson:Um,Michael Jamin:,Greg Thompson:No. Let's see what I, I, I, uh, I would merely plug, uh, your,Michael Jamin:My Plus this in my Pod . All right. Everyone that well,Greg Thompson:Are you still doing the videos as uh, what? Oh, I was just asking if you're doing the video, the video, uh, podcast things as well. Yeah.Michael Jamin:These will air, yeah, they air they'll be on YouTube as well, and we run clips across media. Okay. People can, you know, they can get it everywhere. They can. Yeah. Continue following.Greg Thompson:Okay. It'sMichael Jamin:All part of that. Yeah. It's all, but that's, yeah. I, I, I, this has been fascinating hearing your story as far as I'm concerned, but ,Greg Thompson:But Greg,Michael Jamin:Thank you forGreg Thompson:I, I, uh, well, thank you. I hopeMichael Jamin:You're a good dude.Greg Thompson:Uh, thank, thank you for having me, Michael. I, you know, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of yours, uh, and, uh, yeah, honored.Michael Jamin:Oh God, this is my honor. But alright, everybody, thank you so much to great comic comedian, writer Greg Thompson. And, uh, yeah. So what, let me tell you what else is going on over here. So keep, if you guys wanna sign up for my watch list, that's my free newsletter where I send out daily tips for screenwriters and creative types at Michael jam.com/watchlist and keep following us here. And, uh, yeah, we have different content on YouTube. Our YouTubes at Michael Jam, writer and, uh, Instagram. Keep follow My Instagram, the TikTok Act. Michael Jam writer. All right, everyone. Thank you so much, Greg. Thank you. Until next week for more people. All right. Be good.Phil Hudson:This has been an episode of Screenwriters. Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin and Phil Hudson. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider subscribing, leaving your review and sharing this podcast with someone who needs to hear today's subject. For free daily screenwriting tips, follow Michael on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @MichaelJaminWriter. You can follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @PhilAHudson. This episode was produced by Phil Hudson and edited by Dallas Crane. Until next time, keep writing.

Ross' joy this week was another Legion of Substitute-Heroes story. Adventure Comics 315 has the Legion find out about the Subs. As a reward for being a good team they must not compete against each other for a single slot in the Legion of Super-Heroes.     Shout outs and recommendations; Near Mint Condition and Omar, I really do enjoy his videos and it has spark my interest in Omnis. I have discoverd a few I had to have. His video point me to our next shout out. https://www.youtube.com/c/nearmintcondition @NearMintCon Shout out #2 CheapGraphicNovels.com I just got my first Omni from, them.  Great price, quick shipping, and wonderful book: New Warriors Volume 1 @CheapGN Tom King and Jorge Fornes' graphic Rorschach  @TomKingTK #JorgeFornes

Yay! More Legion of Substitute Heroes. This time very are force to fight their idols, but are they. Another neat little Silver Adventure in the 30th Century by Weisinger, Hamilton, and Forte. I hope you enjoy it. 

It's time to introduce the Legion of Substitute Heroes.  This group of amazing "never say never' kind of heroes are a joy to behold. Adventure Comics 306 is a great comic book and just what I need to brighten my day and week.

The Legion's greatest foe returns! Who will live, and who will die? Find out in this installment of The Legion Clubhouse. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_679724" align="alignright" width="233"] You can read this issue via our Amazon affiliate link.[/caption] LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #289 "A Cold And Lonely Corner Of Hell!" July 1982 w: Paul Levitz a: Keith Giffen A Legion romance dies on a freezing asteroid. ----------------------- "Once Upon An Insanity" July 1982 w: Paul Levitz a: Carmine Infantino Can Brainiac 5 save the mind of an old friend? [caption id="attachment_679726" align="alignright" width="228"] You can read this issue via our Amazon affiliate link[/caption] LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1 "Monster In A Little Girl's Mind!" August 1982 w: Keith Giffen (plot); Paul Levitz (plot, script) a: Keith Giffen It's all-out war and the last line of defense is the Legion of Substitute Heroes!

The Legion's greatest foe returns! Who will live, and who will die? Find out in this installment of The Legion Clubhouse. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_679724" align="alignright" width="233"] You can read this issue via our Amazon affiliate link.[/caption] LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #289 "A Cold And Lonely Corner Of Hell!" July 1982 w: Paul Levitz a: Keith Giffen A Legion romance dies on a freezing asteroid. ----------------------- "Once Upon An Insanity" July 1982 w: Paul Levitz a: Carmine Infantino Can Brainiac 5 save the mind of an old friend? [caption id="attachment_679726" align="alignright" width="228"] You can read this issue via our Amazon affiliate link[/caption] LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ANNUAL #1 "Monster In A Little Girl's Mind!" August 1982 w: Keith Giffen (plot); Paul Levitz (plot, script) a: Keith Giffen It's all-out war and the last line of defense is the Legion of Substitute Heroes!

LEGION OUTPOST IS BACK! This time we cover the Dark Man Saga in LOSH #269-271, and 3 separate tales focusing on The Legion of Substitute Heroes, Adam the Computer's favorite! Plus, Dave gets totally carried away and excited by Ambush Bug! This is a fun - relax, kick back, and ENJOY! ps Another episode COMING SOON! Please support the show on Patreon! Every dollar helps the show! https://www.patreon.com/SignalofDoom Follow us on Twitter: @signalofdoom Dredd or Dead: @OrDredd Legion Outpost: @legionoutpost Follow Dave on Twitter: @redlantern2051

Wes is joined by award-winning comic book editor Joe Corallo and life-long reader Eric Breen to discuss classic Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. ADVENTURE COMICS #330, #331, #332, #335 and #336 introduce space pirate Vorm infiltrating the Legion as Dynamo Boy. Eventually taking leadership and kicking out the original members. The story features The Legion of Super-Villains and The Legion of Substitute-Heroes. DC icons Jerry Seigel and Jim Mooney and sci-fi luminary Edmond Hamilton create a vibrant, fun silver age comic story before DC took a more mature turn later.    YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/ThinkingCritical   Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and like the video!   Thinking Critical Comic Book Podcast is live on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music/Audible, TuneIn + Alexa, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM and Listen Notes. Link: thinkingcriticalcomicbooks.podbean.com   Support Thinking Critical at Ko-fi. Monthly subscriptions receive bonus content and early access to some channel content. Ko-fi.com/thinkingcritical Thank you for supporting the channel!

On this 42nd episode (42!) we talk to Legion of Superheroes expert John Ordover about his favorite super-team. What made Legion comics salacious for their time? What was different about the Legion books? What character died and stayed dead? Who was in charge of the Legion comics for a long time? When did the Legion books get dark and grim? What did every Legion member have? What other powers does the Legion Flight Ring have? What did they change Lightning Lad's name to? Who is Matter Eater Lad? What is Stone Boy's power? What makes a good Legion of Substitute Heroes story? Who is Brainiac 5? Is he related to the bad guy Brainiac? What about the version of the Legion on Supergirl really bothers John? What is Brainiac's real name? What are Nemesis Kid's powers? What was the best version of the Legion onscreen? Who does John think should be in charge of the Legion books? What are John's problems with Spider-Man? Legion Reading tips: The Great Darkness Saga, The Curse Recorded 5/31/21 via Cleanfeed

The Legion of Super-Heroes are attacked on all sides, as they try to prevent Earth from falling, and keeping the galaxy from falling into all out war. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_608266" align="alignright" width="227"] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link[/caption] SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #243 Earth’s Last Stand!” September 1978 w: Paul Levitz a: Joe Staton It’s all out war and the last line of defense is the Legion of Substitute Heroes! [caption id="attachment_608267" align="alignright" width="233"] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link[/caption] SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #244 “The Dark Circle That Crushed Earth” October 1978 w: Paul Levitz a: Joe Staton The true enemy stands revealed… but will it be too late for the Legion?

The Legion of Super-Heroes are attacked on all sides, as they try to prevent Earth from falling, and keeping the galaxy from falling into all out war. Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Join our Discord server and chat with fellow Spoilerites! (https://discord.gg/jWF9BbF) [caption id="attachment_608266" align="alignright" width="227"] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link[/caption] SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #243 Earth's Last Stand!” September 1978 w: Paul Levitz a: Joe Staton It's all out war and the last line of defense is the Legion of Substitute Heroes! [caption id="attachment_608267" align="alignright" width="233"] You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link[/caption] SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #244 “The Dark Circle That Crushed Earth” October 1978 w: Paul Levitz a: Joe Staton The true enemy stands revealed… but will it be too late for the Legion?

Presenting a joint podcast production with Peter from The Daily Rios podcast (where you can also listen and subscribe to The Legion Project), where we will discuss, issue by issue, the 1984 Legion of Super-Heroes (volume 3) series affectionately known as the "Baxter run". In this episode we discuss Legion of Super-Heroes #20: "To Control a World". Some Legionnaires take over a (war)world and then Dream Girl and White Witch attend a party! Plus, Who's Who entries and Legion appearances in other comic books in early 1986! Timestamps: (00:42) Preamble (05:20) Legion of Super-Heroes #20 synopsis, cover discussion, and general thoughts. (23:02) Main discussion; a look back at Tyr’s first appearance in Superboy 197 and 199; the subplots with Brainiac 5 and Sensor Girl and others; and the art (1:06:41) “Night of Madness” backup tale with Dream Girl and White Witch (1:15:11) Who’s Who #13 Legion entries: League of Super-Assassins, Legion Academy, Legion of Substitute Heroes, Legion of Super-Heroes, Legion of Super-Villains, LSH HQ, Legion of Super-Pets, Lightning Lad, Lightning Lass, Lighting Lord, Krypto, and Lady Quark; also, quick mentions of Crisis 12 and Booster Gold 2. (1:57:04) Wrap up and outro Please leave comments below, send your comments to longboxreview@gmail.com or peter@thedailyrios.com, or chat with us @longboxreview or @peterjrios on Twitter. Thanks for listening! Intro theme: “Lost City” by RhoMusic https://twitter.com/ItsRhoMusic https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2l0TFmixfahHLxpdyV5Uw/videos

On this episode the guys discuss the history of the Legion of Substitute Heroes.  Mike previews X-Force, LT reviews Mechanism Volume 1, Josh goes on a tangent about cold using heroes and villains, and Tom rates egg nog.  The guys also talk about Star Wars source material. Thanks for listening and please consider joining the Longbox Legion at www.patreon.com/thelongboxguys.  You can follow us on Twitter @thelongboxguys, find out where we're going to be doing panels at www.thelongboxguys.com, and watch our videos on YouTube, just search for The Longbox Guys.

Introducing: Tales of The Legion Project! A supplemental podcast spotlighting Legion v3 Specials, Annuals, Mini-Series & more!...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Tales of the Legion Project where we discuss Legion v3 adjacent material, such as The Legion of Substitute Heroes Special (1985). Timestamps: (01:00) Intro and origin of the Tales podcast (05:42) Legion of Substitute Heroes Special synopsis, general thoughts, and background info (29:04) On the cover, costumes and designs (38:27) Main discussion on Pulsar Stargrave, connections to older Subs stories, Matter-Eater Lad, and more (1:07:20) Additional thoughts and highlights (1:44:24) Brief thoughts on DC Comics Presents #59 featuring Superman, the Subs, and Ambush Bug (2:00:11) Outro Please leave comments below, send your comments to longboxreview@gmail.com or peter@thedailyrios.com, or chat with us @longboxreview or @peterjrios on Twitter. Thanks for listening!

The Subs take a look at Secret Origins 37, featuring the origin of the Substitute Heroes. They also discuss the recent Arrowverse Crossover, as well as the Fall Finale of The Flash. (Spoilers start when we mention them, and end at minute 42)

Programa grabado el Miércoles 14 de Febrero del 2018En esta ocasión los temas fueron:Legion of Super-HeroesLegion of Substitute HeroesMordruTime TrapperThe Great Darkness Saga

In this week's issue we talk all about obscure, useless, or joke characters from the DC pantheon! Whether it's their sucky powers, their limited comic book appearances, or their horrible track record - we are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel this week! First we break down the latest in DC news, and what's in the Doctor's pulls!? Intro music by Aaron Barry Sponsored by Great Lakes Grooming Co.   Prescribed Reading from Issue #42: Invasion #1 – Snapper Carr is one of six humans abducted by the Dominators who manage to survive a gauntlet of death when their metagene activates, in his case, allowing him to teleport by snapping. Fate vol. 1 #0 – Jared Stevens is hired to retrieve the artifacts of Doctor Fate, and is forced to take them and use their magic following the death of Kent and Inza Nelson. Detective Comics vol. 1 #267 – The 1st appearance of Bat-Mite, a 5th-Dimensional imp like Mr. Mxyzptlk. New Titans vol. 1 #85 – The birth of Baby Wildebeest, fusing mysticism and genetic science. Hit Comics vol. 1 #1 – The 1st appearance of Richard Raleigh, the first Red Bee, as well as the debut of his pet bee Michael. Adventure Comics vol. 1 #342 – Ulu Vakk, otherwise known as Color Kid, auditions for the Legion of Super-Heroes and is rejected due to the uselessness of his power. Flash vol. 2 #174 – After getting his astral self trapped in tar-form, Tar-Pit attempts to steal the Stanley Cup from a hockey game in Keystone City. Superboy vol. 1 #201 – Infectious Lass tries out for the Legion of Super-Heroes, causing severe illness in a Legionnaire and subsequently being rejected. Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 1 #251 – Matter-Eater Lad consumes the Miracle Machine to save the day, but its energies render him insane. Secret Origins vol. 2 #46 – Arm-Fall-Off-Boy is retconned in as the first ever rejected applicant to the Legion of Super-Heroes Sixpack and Dogwelder: Hard-Travellin’ Heroz vol. 1 #6 – Dogwelder harnesses his full power to weld together two stars in the Sirius star system.   SHOW NOTES (courtesy of Josh Gill)   Scott Snyder to take over JL in June http://dccomicsnews.com/2018/01/29/scott-snyder-to-take-over-justice-league-in-june/ No Justice coming May 2018 http://dccomicsnews.com/2018/01/27/justice-league-no-justice-coming-may-2018-thanks-to-snyder-tynion-iv-and-williamson/ Brainiac http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Vril_Dox_(Prime_Earth) New JL rosters https://www.cbr.com/justice-league-no-justice-teams-analysis/ Dark Nights Metal http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Nights:_Metal Scott Snyder reveals evil Batmen cut from Metal http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/01/21/dark-nights-metal-evil-batmen-scott-snyder/ Dark Knights http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Knights_(Dark_Multiverse) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-22) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bryce_Wayne_(Earth_-11) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-32) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-12) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-1) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-44) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_(Earth_-52) Casting Call at Titans hints at Solstice https://screenrant.com/titans-tv-series-solstice-casting-call/ Solstice http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kiran_Singh_(New_Earth) Cassie Sandsmark http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Cassandra_Sandsmark_(New_Earth) Morrison and Snyder to feature Detective Chimp http://dccomicsnews.com/2018/01/26/morrison-and-snyders-wild-hunt/ The Wild Hunt https://www.newsarama.com/36924-dark-knights-rising-the-wild-hunt-1.html Detective Chimp http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bobo_T._Chimpanzee_(Prime_Earth) Shadowpact http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowpact_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bobo_T._Chimpanzee_(New_Earth) DC to publish a lost Superman story https://nerdist.com/lost-superman-story-dc-siegel-shuster/ Action Comics 1000 http://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/action-comics-2016/action-comics-1000-80-years-of-superman Jerry Siegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Siegel Joe Shuster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Shuster Superman (1940’s cartoon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1940s_cartoons) Japoteurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japoteurs Pink Kryptonite http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kryptonite http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Kryptonite http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Supergirl_Vol_4_79 Does the Deathstroke vs Batman storyline hint at the DCEU future? https://nerdist.com/deathstroke-vs-batman-comic-dceu/ Episode 2 of BL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lightning_(TV_series)#Episodes James Remar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Remar The Quest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quest_(film)   The Doctor’s Pulls   Aquaman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman_Vol_8_32 Mera: Queen of Atlantis http://www.dccomics.com/comics/mera-queen-of-atlantis-2018/mera-queen-of-atlantis-1 Justice League http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Vol_3_37   Bottom of the Barrel   Snapper Carr http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lucas_Carr_(New_Earth) Snapper Carr gets powers http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Invasion! Jimmy Olsen http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/James_Olsen_(New_Earth) Batman V Superman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman:_Dawn_of_Justice Countdown to Final Crisis http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Countdown_to_Final_Crisis Mister Action   Fate Jared Stevens http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jared_Stevens_(New_Earth) Casey Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Jones_(Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles) Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles Lords of Order http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lords_of_Order Earth 13 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_13 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jared_Stevens_(Earth_13) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Etrigan_(Earth_13)   Bat-Mite http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bat-Mite_(New_Earth) Mr. Mxypltzk http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mister_Mxyzptlk_(New_Earth) Bat-Mite Vol. 1 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bat-Mite_Vol_1   Baby Wildebeest http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Baby_Wildebeest_(New_Earth) Pantha http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rosabelle_Mendez_(New_Earth) New Titans http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Teen_Titans_(New_Earth) Superboy Prime http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kal-El_(Earth-Prime) Infinite Crisis http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Infinite_Crisis   Red Bee http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Raleigh_(Quality_Universe) Jenna Raleigh http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jenna_Raleigh_(New_Earth)   Color Kid http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Ulu_Vakk_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Legion of Substitute Heroes http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Substitute_Heroes_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Legion of Superheroes http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Super-Heroes_(Pre-Zero_Hour)   Tarpit http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Joseph_Monteleone_(New_Earth) Clayface http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Basil_Karlo_(New_Earth)   The Legion Bouncing Boy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Taine_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Duo Damsel/Duplicate Girl/Triplicate Girl http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Luornu_Durgo_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Infectious Lass http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Drura_Sehpt_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Stone Boy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dag_Wentim_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Matter-Eater Lad http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tenzil_Kem_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Miracle Machine http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Miracle_Machine   Most Useless Superpower? Flight Super Speed w/o stamina Invisibility Wealth   Arm-Fall-Off-Boy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Arm-Fall-Off-Boy_(Pre-Zero_Hour)   Dog Welder http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dogwelder_(New_Earth) Section Eight http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Section_8 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bueno_Excellente_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Defenestrator_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sidney_Speck_(New_Earth) Section 8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_(military) Six-Pack and Dogwelder: Hard-Travelin Heroez http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sixpack_and_Dogwelder:_Hard-Travelin%27_Heroz_Vol_1   Doomsday http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Doomsday_(New_Earth)   Black Spider http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Eric_Needham_(New_Earth)   Terry Long http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Terrence_Long_(New_Earth) Marv Wolfman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_Wolfman Donna Troy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Donna_Troy_(New_Earth) Robert Long http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Hinckley_Long_(New_Earth) Sugar and Spike http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sugar_Plumm_(Prime_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Spike_Wilson_(Prime_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legends_of_Tomorrow_Vol_1 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legends_of_Tomorrow_Vol_1_3 Wonder Woman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Diana_of_Themyscira_(Prime_Earth)   Hemo-Goblin http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hemo-Goblin_(New_Earth)   Friendly Fire http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Friendly_Fire_(New_Earth) Havok http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Summers_(Earth-616)

In this issue we ring in the new year! This week we are talking about second chances, bad guys gone good, good guys gone bad! Can these capes and cowls change there stripes, and for how long? But first we talk all that has been missed in DC comics, movies and TV news. All this and more in the newest issue of the Doctor DC Podcast! Sponsored by Great Lakes Grooming Co. Intro music by Aaron Barry   Prescribed Reading from Issue #39: Zero Hour #1 – Parallax reveals himself as the mastermind behind the time crisis, using Extant as his minion Flash vol. 2 #31 – Pied Piper reforms and becomes a hero when he teams up with the Flash to defeat the Comforter Flash vol. 4 #8 – In the New 52, Pied Piper retains his past as a reformed Rogue Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1 – Maxwell Lord is revealed as the mastermind behind the OMAC Project and kills Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle Justice League America vol. 1 Annual #4 – Major Disaster’s Injustice League reformed as the Justice League Antarctica Action Comics vol. 1 #560 – Ambush Bug, who has been a villain/antagonist until this point, finally appears as a hero trying to impress Superman Batman: Gotham Knights vol. 1 #61-65 – This arc explores Poison Ivy’s relationship to the orphans she “adopted” and protected during the events of “No Man’s Land” as well as her subtle shift to protagonist Identity Crisis #5 – A deranged and insane Shadow-Thief kills Firestorm using Shining Knight’s magic sword Final Crisis: Submit #1 – Black Lightning sacrifices himself fighting Darkseid’s Justifiers and tasks the villain the Tattooed Man with finding the remaining Justice Leaguers and saving the day   SHOW NOTES (courtesy of Josh Gill)   Legion of Superheroes premiers on Supergirl https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1722240/supergirl-is-finally-introducing-the-legion-of-super-heroes-heres-who-was-cast-first http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/01/10/supergirl-legion-of-super-heroes-extended-trailer/ Reign http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Reign_(Prime_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Reign_(Arrow:_Earth-38) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odette_Annable Mon El http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lar_Gand_(Pre-Zero_Hour) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mon-El_(Arrow:_Earth-38) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wood_(actor) Saturn Girl http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Imra_Ardeen_(Pre-Zero_Hour) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Imra_Ardeen_(Arrow:_Earth-38) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Jackson Brainiac-5 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Querl_Dox_(Pre-Zero_Hour) https://www.cbr.com/supergirl-tv-brainiac-5-first-look/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Rath Matter Eater Lad http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tenzil_Kem_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Bouncing Boy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Taine_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Legion of Substitute Heroes http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_Substitute_Heroes_(Pre-Zero_Hour) Disney purchased Fox http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/disney-fox-merger-deal-52-4-billion-merger-1202631242/ http://collider.com/disney-fox-deal-explained/ Gotham is unaffected http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/01/04/gotham-safe-from-fox-disney-purchase/ Doomsday Clock ticking close to Golden Age and JSA http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2017/10/13/doomsday-clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock_(comics) Johnny Thunder Rebirth http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Thunder_(Prime_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/DC_Universe:_Rebirth_Vol_1_1 Green Flame http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Starheart http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Lantern/Superman:_Legend_of_the_Green_Flame Carter Hall http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Carter_Hall_(Prime_Earth) http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/12/20/hawkman-returns-dc-metal-4/ Killing Joke confirmed as part of Rebirth Continuity http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke Darkseid War http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League:_Darkseid_War Mobius Chair http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mobius_Chair Three Jokers http://www.techtimes.com/articles/160951/20160525/justice-league-50-finally-reveals-the-jokers-real-identity-sort-of.htm http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/25/dc-rebirth-introduces-mind-blowing-joker-twist Barbara Gordon http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Barbara_Gordon Aquaman Images https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/12/07/sexy-shirtless-jason-momoa-aquaman/ WB release first look at Hawk & Dove http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/15/live-action-dcs-titans-first-look-hawk-and-dove Don Hall http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Donald_Hall_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths_Vol_1_12 Crisis on Infinite Earths http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths DC’s streaming service https://www.cinemablend.com/television/1651249/why-dcs-new-streaming-service-could-be-a-gamechanger http://www.player.one/dc-streaming-service-young-justice-teen-titans-movies-tv-shows-119061 Geoff Johns to remain as DC films co-head http://collider.com/dc-films-restructuring-justice-league-jon-berg-geoff-johns/ http://variety.com/2018/film/news/warner-bros-taps-walter-hamada-to-oversee-dc-films-production-exclusive-1202652878/ Walter Hamada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hamada Upcoming DC films http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/dc-movies/269805/what-does-the-future-hold-for-dc-movies X-Men films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(film_series) Zack Snyder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_Snyder Patty Jenkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Jenkins New vision for Wonder Woman 2 https://nerdist.com/patty-jenkins-hints-at-totally-different-wonder-woman-2/ Keanu Reeves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanu_Reeves Richard Dragon http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Ricardo_Diaz,_Jr._(Prime_Earth) Arrow Cannot Use Deathstroke http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Deathstroke http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Slade_Wilson_(Arrow) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Slade_Wilson_(DC_Extended_Universe) http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/22/arrow-cant-use-deathstroke-anymore-because-of-joe-manganiello-movie Joe Manganiello movie http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/25/justice-league-deathstroke-joe-manganiello-photo/ Diana’s brother Jason http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jason_(Prime_Earth) Grail http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Grail_(Prime_Earth) Zeus http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Zeus_(Prime_Earth) Darkseid http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Uxas_(Prime_Earth) King Arther fights to take back Atlantis https://nerdist.com/aquaman-31-exclusive-preview-king-arthur/ Corum Rath http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Corum_Rath_(Prime_Earth) Dolphin http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dolphin_(Prime_Earth) King Shark http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nanaue_(Prime_Earth) Vulko http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Vulko_(Prime_Earth) Mera http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mera_(Prime_Earth) Throne of Atlantis http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Throne_of_Atlantis DC and WB have plans to bring the Question into DCEU/DCAU http://comicbook.com/dc/2017/12/21/dc-comics-the-question-tv-show-movie/ Vic Sage http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Charles_Victor_Szasz_(New_Earth) Charlton Comics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Comics Denny O’Neill’s The Question https://www.amazon.com/Question-Vol-Zen-Violence/dp/1401215793 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Question_Vol_1 Hub City http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hub_City   Second Chances   Are there any heroes you can imagine turning bad for a while? Hal Jordan becomes Parallax http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Parallax_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Reign_of_the_Supermen Hank Hall becomes Extant http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Henry_Hall_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Monarch http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Armageddon_2001 Zero Hour http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Zero_Hour Captain Atom becomes Monarch http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Monarch http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nathaniel_Adam_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Countdown http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Countdown:_Arena Metamorpho http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rex_Mason_(New_Earth) Sapphire Stagg http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Sapphire_Stagg_(New_Earth) Mister Terrific http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Michael_Holt Future’s End http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Futures_End Mister Horrific http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mister_Horrific_(Crisis_on_Two_Earths:_Crime_Syndicate_Earth) Crisis on Two Earths http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League:_Crisis_on_Two_Earths_(Movie) Plastic Man http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian_(New_Earth) Hawkman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hawkman Before the New 52, Piper was handcuffed due to the Trickster and ended up being outed and going good. Pied Piper http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hartley_Rathaway_(New_Earth) Trickster http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Giovanni_Giuseppe_(New_Earth) Flash’s Rogues http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rogues Mirror Master http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mirror_Master Pied Piper (Arrowverse) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Hartley_Rathaway_(Arrow) Flashpoint (Arrowverse) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flash_(2014_TV_Series)_Episode:_Flashpoint Max Lord http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Maxwell_Lord_IV_(New_Earth) Countdown to Infinite Crisis http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Countdown_to_Infinite_Crisis Justice League http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_International_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League:_A_New_Beginning http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Antarctica Martian Manhunter Choco Addiction http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Chocos Kills Blue Beetle http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Countdown_to_Infinite_Crisis_Vol_1_1 Killg%re Virus http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Kilg%25re_(New_Earth) Injustice League, Justice League Antartica http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Injustice_League http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_Antarctica Cluemaster, Big Sir, Major Disaster, G’nort, Scarlet Skiier http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Brown_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dufus_P._Ratchet_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Paul_Booker_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/G%27nort http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Dren_Keeg_(New_Earth) Current JLA and Luthor.  Outside of Major Disaster (pre-Flashpoint), has any villain ever turned hero and not gone back to being a villain? Justice League of America http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_of_America_II_(Prime_Earth) Killer Frost http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Caitlin_Snow_(Prime_Earth) Lobo http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lobo_II_(Prime_Earth) Lex Luthor http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Luthor_(Prime_Earth) Forever Evil http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Forever_Evil http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Injustice_League_(Prime_Earth) Death of New 52 Superman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman:_The_Final_Days_of_Superman Ambush Bug http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Irwin_Schwab_(New_Earth) Argh!Yle! http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Argh!Yle! Catwoman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Catwoman JLA New 52 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Justice_League_of_America_(Prime_Earth) Earth 2 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_2 http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Selina_Kyle_(Earth_2) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Helena_Wayne_(Earth_2) Clayface http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Basil_Karlo_(Prime_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Gotham_Knights_(Prime_Earth) Harley Quinn http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Harleen_Quinzel_(Prime_Earth) Poison Ivy http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Pamela_Isley_(Prime_Earth) No Man’s Land http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_No_Man%27s_Land In the past, Batman and the Flash have had the most villain-turned-hero stories, other than Pied Piper, Clayface, and Riddler, have there been any other villains that have been good for a long time? The Flash’s Rogues http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Rogues KIller Croc http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Killer_Croc The Riddler http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Edward_Nashton_(New_Earth) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Detective_Comics_Vol_1_822 What minor villain do you think would be the most interesting to see reform into a hero? Shadow Thief http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Carl_Sands_(New_Earth) Starro http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Starro Toyman http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Winslow_Schott_(New_Earth) Mark Richards (Tattoo Man 3) http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Richards_(New_Earth)    

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, the Knave from Krypton returns and the Legion has a Suicide Squad? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #319 The Legion's Suicide Squad April 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats. When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #320 The Revenge of the Knave From Krypton! May 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte & George Papp After finishing his homework, Superboy travels to the 30th Century for his regular visit with the Legion of Super-Heroes. There they are alerted by the security system of an intruder and Superboy is shocked to find it is his old tormentor Dev-Em. Capturing Dev-Em, Superboy explains how Dev-Em was a juvenile delinquent on Krypton who was sentenced to suspended animation, survived Krypton's destruction and was revived on 20th Century Earth. Superboy then recounts about how Dev-Em managed to trap Superboy in the Phantom Zone and pose as him to cause chaos around Earth. After returning from the Phantom Zone, Superboy was unable to stop Dev-Em who escaped into the distant future. Superboy would finish his story by explaining that the only way he was able to clear his name was with the help of his friend Chief Parker who told everyone Red Kryptonite was the "reason" for Superboy's rampage. However, it is revealed that Dev-Em has turned over a new leaf in the 30th Century and is a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps. However, when reporting back into the I.C.C., Dev-Em has his mission to stop interplanetary criminal Molock to Superboy. Disguising himself as Dev-Em, Superboy manages to bluff Molock with fake Gold Kryptonite, which is actually Proty II in disguise. After Superboy smashes up Molock's operation and turns him over to the police, the Legion offers Dev-Em membership in the Legion, to which Dev-Em declines, preferring to work with the I.C.C. - via DC Wikia GIVEAWAY Thanks to one of our fantastic listeners, we are giving away a copy of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume One. ENTER TODAY (http://majorspoilers.com/giveaway) It's the long-awaited wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, with a ceremony bringing together Legionnaires and friends from across galaxies! But amid the celebration, one guest's joy for the happy couple is mixed with apprehension: something is wrong with the 30th century, and only Superboy can see it. To figure out what happened to the Legion's future, Superboy and his friends must venture a thousand years into the past—to 1978! Plus, the Legion face off against the Worldsmith, rescue their billionaire benefactor, take over Superboy's brain and more! Continuing directly from the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES, this volume includes stories from SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #234-240, ALL-NEW COLLECTORS' EDITION C-55 and DC SUPER-STARS #17.

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, the Knave from Krypton returns and the Legion has a Suicide Squad? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #319 The Legion's Suicide Squad April 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats. When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #320 The Revenge of the Knave From Krypton! May 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte & George Papp After finishing his homework, Superboy travels to the 30th Century for his regular visit with the Legion of Super-Heroes. There they are alerted by the security system of an intruder and Superboy is shocked to find it is his old tormentor Dev-Em. Capturing Dev-Em, Superboy explains how Dev-Em was a juvenile delinquent on Krypton who was sentenced to suspended animation, survived Krypton's destruction and was revived on 20th Century Earth. Superboy then recounts about how Dev-Em managed to trap Superboy in the Phantom Zone and pose as him to cause chaos around Earth. After returning from the Phantom Zone, Superboy was unable to stop Dev-Em who escaped into the distant future. Superboy would finish his story by explaining that the only way he was able to clear his name was with the help of his friend Chief Parker who told everyone Red Kryptonite was the "reason" for Superboy's rampage. However, it is revealed that Dev-Em has turned over a new leaf in the 30th Century and is a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps. However, when reporting back into the I.C.C., Dev-Em has his mission to stop interplanetary criminal Molock to Superboy. Disguising himself as Dev-Em, Superboy manages to bluff Molock with fake Gold Kryptonite, which is actually Proty II in disguise. After Superboy smashes up Molock's operation and turns him over to the police, the Legion offers Dev-Em membership in the Legion, to which Dev-Em declines, preferring to work with the I.C.C. - via DC Wikia GIVEAWAY Thanks to one of our fantastic listeners, we are giving away a copy of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume One. ENTER TODAY (http://majorspoilers.com/giveaway) It’s the long-awaited wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, with a ceremony bringing together Legionnaires and friends from across galaxies! But amid the celebration, one guest’s joy for the happy couple is mixed with apprehension: something is wrong with the 30th century, and only Superboy can see it. To figure out what happened to the Legion’s future, Superboy and his friends must venture a thousand years into the past—to 1978! Plus, the Legion face off against the Worldsmith, rescue their billionaire benefactor, take over Superboy’s brain and more! Continuing directly from the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES, this volume includes stories from SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #234-240, ALL-NEW COLLECTORS’ EDITION C-55 and DC SUPER-STARS #17.

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, the Knave from Krypton returns and the Legion has a Suicide Squad? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #319 The Legion's Suicide Squad April 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats. When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #320 The Revenge of the Knave From Krypton! May 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte & George Papp After finishing his homework, Superboy travels to the 30th Century for his regular visit with the Legion of Super-Heroes. There they are alerted by the security system of an intruder and Superboy is shocked to find it is his old tormentor Dev-Em. Capturing Dev-Em, Superboy explains how Dev-Em was a juvenile delinquent on Krypton who was sentenced to suspended animation, survived Krypton's destruction and was revived on 20th Century Earth. Superboy then recounts about how Dev-Em managed to trap Superboy in the Phantom Zone and pose as him to cause chaos around Earth. After returning from the Phantom Zone, Superboy was unable to stop Dev-Em who escaped into the distant future. Superboy would finish his story by explaining that the only way he was able to clear his name was with the help of his friend Chief Parker who told everyone Red Kryptonite was the "reason" for Superboy's rampage. However, it is revealed that Dev-Em has turned over a new leaf in the 30th Century and is a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps. However, when reporting back into the I.C.C., Dev-Em has his mission to stop interplanetary criminal Molock to Superboy. Disguising himself as Dev-Em, Superboy manages to bluff Molock with fake Gold Kryptonite, which is actually Proty II in disguise. After Superboy smashes up Molock's operation and turns him over to the police, the Legion offers Dev-Em membership in the Legion, to which Dev-Em declines, preferring to work with the I.C.C. - via DC Wikia GIVEAWAYThanks to one of our fantastic listeners, we are giving away a copy of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume One. ENTER TODAY (http://majorspoilers.com/giveaway) It's the long-awaited wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, with a ceremony bringing together Legionnaires and friends from across galaxies! But amid the celebration, one guest's joy for the happy couple is mixed with apprehension: something is wrong with the 30th century, and only Superboy can see it. To figure out what happened to the Legion's future, Superboy and his friends must venture a thousand years into the past—to 1978! Plus, the Legion face off against the Worldsmith, rescue their billionaire benefactor, take over Superboy's brain and more! Continuing directly from the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES, this volume includes stories from SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #234-240, ALL-NEW COLLECTORS' EDITION C-55 and DC SUPER-STARS #17.

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, the Knave from Krypton returns and the Legion has a Suicide Squad? Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #319 The Legion's Suicide Squad April 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the isolationist planet Throon builds a giant tower with a ray that incapacitates passing ships, the Legion of Super-Heroes is sent to try and stop them. The first squad which consists Saturn Girl, Bouncing Boy, Superboy, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy, Brainiac 5 and Invisible Kid are dispatched and find themselves easily defeated by devices that are tailor made to deal with their individual threats. When the remaining members of the Legion all try in their own ways to get past the tower on Throon, they all meet defeat in different ways until all of the members of the Legion have been defeated. Having watched the entire fiasco on their viewing monitor, the Legion of Substitute Heroes goes in for the rescue. While the others keep the defenses of the tower busy, Night Girl uses her strength to burrow through the ground into the main control room of the tower. There she finds that the whole operation is controlled by two crazy old men. Easily defeating them and smashing their machine, Night Girl and the rest of the Substitutes free their Legion counterparts and return to Earth. There a special parade is put on in honor of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, finally giving them the recognition they deserve. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #320 The Revenge of the Knave From Krypton! May 1964 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte & George Papp After finishing his homework, Superboy travels to the 30th Century for his regular visit with the Legion of Super-Heroes. There they are alerted by the security system of an intruder and Superboy is shocked to find it is his old tormentor Dev-Em. Capturing Dev-Em, Superboy explains how Dev-Em was a juvenile delinquent on Krypton who was sentenced to suspended animation, survived Krypton's destruction and was revived on 20th Century Earth. Superboy then recounts about how Dev-Em managed to trap Superboy in the Phantom Zone and pose as him to cause chaos around Earth. After returning from the Phantom Zone, Superboy was unable to stop Dev-Em who escaped into the distant future. Superboy would finish his story by explaining that the only way he was able to clear his name was with the help of his friend Chief Parker who told everyone Red Kryptonite was the "reason" for Superboy's rampage. However, it is revealed that Dev-Em has turned over a new leaf in the 30th Century and is a member of the Inter-Stellar Counter-Intelligence Corps. However, when reporting back into the I.C.C., Dev-Em has his mission to stop interplanetary criminal Molock to Superboy. Disguising himself as Dev-Em, Superboy manages to bluff Molock with fake Gold Kryptonite, which is actually Proty II in disguise. After Superboy smashes up Molock's operation and turns him over to the police, the Legion offers Dev-Em membership in the Legion, to which Dev-Em declines, preferring to work with the I.C.C. - via DC Wikia GIVEAWAY Thanks to one of our fantastic listeners, we are giving away a copy of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes Volume One. ENTER TODAY (http://majorspoilers.com/giveaway) It’s the long-awaited wedding of Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, with a ceremony bringing together Legionnaires and friends from across galaxies! But amid the celebration, one guest’s joy for the happy couple is mixed with apprehension: something is wrong with the 30th century, and only Superboy can see it. To figure out what happened to the Legion’s future, Superboy and his friends must venture a thousand years into the past—to 1978! Plus, the Legion face off against the Worldsmith, rescue their billionaire benefactor, take over Superboy’s brain and more! Continuing directly from the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES ARCHIVES, this volume includes stories from SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #234-240, ALL-NEW COLLECTORS’ EDITION C-55 and DC SUPER-STARS #17.

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. Subscribe via iTunes Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #72 The World Of Doomed Olsens! October 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: Curt Swan "Jimmy is taking part in a televised showcase of has many adventures, focusing particularly on the formula that turns him into Elastic Lad, and his various other transformations over the years. His special is suddenly interrupted by an alien creature calling itself the Collector who kidnaps Jimmy with it's scientific devices. Jimmy finds himself transported to an alien world where the Collector hopes to make a collection of all the various incarnations of Jimmy Olsen. Rooting Jimmy to the group (by literally turning his feet into tree roots) the Collector keeps Superman at bay as well and apparently brings forth the giant monster Jimmy, the wolfman Jimmy, porcupine Jimmy and fat Jimmy before the real Jimmy. These alternate versions of him terrorize him before they themselves are rooted into the ground. Before the Collector can do anything else Jimmy suddenly pulls the microphone that's been attached to him since the TV interview, and throws it at the Collector scaring the creature, thus proving to Jimmy that it's a ruse. Jimmy had deduced that the "Collector" is really Mon-El in disguise (due to his reaction to the microphone which was made with some lead parts which used to be a weakness for Mon-El) and that the other "Jimmy's" are really other members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (who are revealed to be Colossal Boy, Chameleon Boy and his new pet Proty II, Cosmic Boy, and Bouncing Boy.) Jimmy learns that this was all planned by the Legion and Superman as an initiation for Jimmy, who is taken to the 30th Century where he is awarded an honorary membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes." - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #315 The Legionnaires' Super-Contest! December 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte "While the Legion of Super-Heroes is attending a law enforcement convention, the Legion the Substitute Heroes fills in for them while they are absent. The Substitutes save a rocket from crashing, their deed is seen by Superboy's x-ray vision. With their existence revealed to the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legion recognizes them as rejected Legion applicants and the Legion decides to give them another opportunity to apply for membership. Each Substitute is sent on a different mission with various members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and use their talents to help solve each mission. Returning from their missions, each Substitute member has their performance graded. Stone Boy ends up getting the highest score and is offered membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, however, enjoying his membership in the Substitutes, Stone Boy declines membership to remain with his friends in the Legion of Substitute Heroes." - via DC Wikia LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS Originally introduced in 1958, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of super-powered teenagers from the disparate worlds of the 30th century's United Planets. Each hero had his or her own powers, unique to their planets of origin; together, they stood against evil across the galaxy. Together with 20th century hero Superboy, this team--originally made up of Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, but soon numbering in the dozens--fought for justice as they dealt with adolescent insecurities. Collects ADVENTURE COMICS #247, #267, #282, #290, #293, #300-328; ACTION COMICS #267, #276, #287 and #289; SUPERMAN #147; SUPERMAN ANNUAL #4 and SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #72, #76; and SUPERBOY #86, #89, #98 and #117. You can buy the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus via our Amazon affiliate link (http://amzn.to/2xRldB1)

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. Subscribe via iTunes Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #72 The World Of Doomed Olsens! October 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: Curt Swan "Jimmy is taking part in a televised showcase of has many adventures, focusing particularly on the formula that turns him into Elastic Lad, and his various other transformations over the years. His special is suddenly interrupted by an alien creature calling itself the Collector who kidnaps Jimmy with it's scientific devices. Jimmy finds himself transported to an alien world where the Collector hopes to make a collection of all the various incarnations of Jimmy Olsen. Rooting Jimmy to the group (by literally turning his feet into tree roots) the Collector keeps Superman at bay as well and apparently brings forth the giant monster Jimmy, the wolfman Jimmy, porcupine Jimmy and fat Jimmy before the real Jimmy. These alternate versions of him terrorize him before they themselves are rooted into the ground. Before the Collector can do anything else Jimmy suddenly pulls the microphone that's been attached to him since the TV interview, and throws it at the Collector scaring the creature, thus proving to Jimmy that it's a ruse. Jimmy had deduced that the "Collector" is really Mon-El in disguise (due to his reaction to the microphone which was made with some lead parts which used to be a weakness for Mon-El) and that the other "Jimmy's" are really other members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (who are revealed to be Colossal Boy, Chameleon Boy and his new pet Proty II, Cosmic Boy, and Bouncing Boy.) Jimmy learns that this was all planned by the Legion and Superman as an initiation for Jimmy, who is taken to the 30th Century where he is awarded an honorary membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes." - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #315 The Legionnaires' Super-Contest! December 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte "While the Legion of Super-Heroes is attending a law enforcement convention, the Legion the Substitute Heroes fills in for them while they are absent. The Substitutes save a rocket from crashing, their deed is seen by Superboy's x-ray vision. With their existence revealed to the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legion recognizes them as rejected Legion applicants and the Legion decides to give them another opportunity to apply for membership. Each Substitute is sent on a different mission with various members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and use their talents to help solve each mission. Returning from their missions, each Substitute member has their performance graded. Stone Boy ends up getting the highest score and is offered membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, however, enjoying his membership in the Substitutes, Stone Boy declines membership to remain with his friends in the Legion of Substitute Heroes." - via DC Wikia LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS Originally introduced in 1958, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of super-powered teenagers from the disparate worlds of the 30th century's United Planets. Each hero had his or her own powers, unique to their planets of origin; together, they stood against evil across the galaxy. Together with 20th century hero Superboy, this team--originally made up of Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, but soon numbering in the dozens--fought for justice as they dealt with adolescent insecurities. Collects ADVENTURE COMICS #247, #267, #282, #290, #293, #300-328; ACTION COMICS #267, #276, #287 and #289; SUPERMAN #147; SUPERMAN ANNUAL #4 and SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #72, #76; and SUPERBOY #86, #89, #98 and #117. You can buy the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus via our Amazon affiliate link (http://amzn.to/2xRldB1)

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. Subscribe via iTunes Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron at http://patreon.com/MajorSpoilers. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #72 The World Of Doomed Olsens! October 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: Curt Swan "Jimmy is taking part in a televised showcase of has many adventures, focusing particularly on the formula that turns him into Elastic Lad, and his various other transformations over the years. His special is suddenly interrupted by an alien creature calling itself the Collector who kidnaps Jimmy with it's scientific devices. Jimmy finds himself transported to an alien world where the Collector hopes to make a collection of all the various incarnations of Jimmy Olsen. Rooting Jimmy to the group (by literally turning his feet into tree roots) the Collector keeps Superman at bay as well and apparently brings forth the giant monster Jimmy, the wolfman Jimmy, porcupine Jimmy and fat Jimmy before the real Jimmy. These alternate versions of him terrorize him before they themselves are rooted into the ground. Before the Collector can do anything else Jimmy suddenly pulls the microphone that's been attached to him since the TV interview, and throws it at the Collector scaring the creature, thus proving to Jimmy that it's a ruse. Jimmy had deduced that the "Collector" is really Mon-El in disguise (due to his reaction to the microphone which was made with some lead parts which used to be a weakness for Mon-El) and that the other "Jimmy's" are really other members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (who are revealed to be Colossal Boy, Chameleon Boy and his new pet Proty II, Cosmic Boy, and Bouncing Boy.) Jimmy learns that this was all planned by the Legion and Superman as an initiation for Jimmy, who is taken to the 30th Century where he is awarded an honorary membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes." - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #315 The Legionnaires' Super-Contest! December 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte "While the Legion of Super-Heroes is attending a law enforcement convention, the Legion the Substitute Heroes fills in for them while they are absent. The Substitutes save a rocket from crashing, their deed is seen by Superboy's x-ray vision. With their existence revealed to the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Legion recognizes them as rejected Legion applicants and the Legion decides to give them another opportunity to apply for membership. Each Substitute is sent on a different mission with various members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, and use their talents to help solve each mission. Returning from their missions, each Substitute member has their performance graded. Stone Boy ends up getting the highest score and is offered membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, however, enjoying his membership in the Substitutes, Stone Boy declines membership to remain with his friends in the Legion of Substitute Heroes." - via DC Wikia LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS Originally introduced in 1958, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of super-powered teenagers from the disparate worlds of the 30th century's United Planets. Each hero had his or her own powers, unique to their planets of origin; together, they stood against evil across the galaxy. Together with 20th century hero Superboy, this team--originally made up of Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, but soon numbering in the dozens--fought for justice as they dealt with adolescent insecurities. Collects ADVENTURE COMICS #247, #267, #282, #290, #293, #300-328; ACTION COMICS #267, #276, #287 and #289; SUPERMAN #147; SUPERMAN ANNUAL #4 and SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #72, #76; and SUPERBOY #86, #89, #98 and #117. You can buy the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus via our Amazon affiliate link (http://amzn.to/2xRldB1)

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #313 The Condemned Legionnaires! October 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: Curt Swan When most the female members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (and Night Girl of the Legion of Substitute Heroes) come down with the Crimson Virus, they have to be sent to a quarantine planet. The rest of the female members are hunted down by a mysterious masked villain named Satan Girl, who seems to be infecting the female Legionnaires with the virus. With the arrival of Supergirl, who is immune to the virus, the male Legion members try to learn the origins of Satan Girl. When she proves immune to Kryptonite, Lead and an anti-android weapon, the heroes are puzzled to figure out her true identity. Unable to defeat her due to her superior powers, Supergirl has the Legion go and collect the Legion of Super-Pets, as Satan Girl's powers would not effect them. The Super-Pets manage to easily defeat Satan Girl, who is unmasked, revealing that she is really -- Supergirl!? The weakened Satan Girl explains that she is the product of Red Kryptonite, which Supergirl was exposed to upon entering the 30th Century. Knowing that she had only 48 hours of life, she adopted the guise of Satan Girl and created a device that would siphon the Red Kryptonite radiation and infect females with it, in hopes that once she had rid herself of the Red Kryptonite energies she could live past the 48 hour period which Red Kryptonite effects. With her plan a failure, and the 48 hours running their course, Satan Girl merges with Supergirl. After wards, the Legion learns that Satan Girl managed to handle Green Kryptonite because she wore a lead suit. After this revelation, although they are victorious and their female members restored to normal, the Legion takes a moment to feel pity for Satan Girl, for all she wanted to do was live. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #314 The Super-Villains Of All Ages! November 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte Posing as an applicant for potential Legion membership, the evil Alaktor manages to take x-ray photos of every device within Legion headquarters. Sneaking back into their base, Alaktor steals one of the Legion's time bubbles in hopes of recruiting histories most evil criminals. The Legion stumbles upon Alaktor's plot and try to stop him across different periods. However, Alaktor manages to avoid capture while recruiting Nero, John Dillinger, and Adolf Hitler from history and bring them to the 30th Century. With a mind swap device, Alaktor manages to switch the minds of Hitler, Dillinger, and Nero into the bodies of Superboy, Mon-El and Ultra-Boy. The three then turn against Alaktor and decide to commit crimes across the universe for their own gain. The Legion tries to stop them, but in the bodies of their near indestructible friends, this proves to the easier said than done. However, the evil and opportunistic natures of Hitler, Dillinger and Nero get the better of them and all three knock each other out using the weaknesses their stolen super-bodies are vulnerable too. This allows the Legion to gather them up, and restore their friends minds back into their own bodies, return the historical figures to their own times and undo the damage they had done in the 30th Century. - via DC Wikia

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #313 The Condemned Legionnaires! October 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: Curt Swan When most the female members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (and Night Girl of the Legion of Substitute Heroes) come down with the Crimson Virus, they have to be sent to a quarantine planet. The rest of the female members are hunted down by a mysterious masked villain named Satan Girl, who seems to be infecting the female Legionnaires with the virus. With the arrival of Supergirl, who is immune to the virus, the male Legion members try to learn the origins of Satan Girl. When she proves immune to Kryptonite, Lead and an anti-android weapon, the heroes are puzzled to figure out her true identity. Unable to defeat her due to her superior powers, Supergirl has the Legion go and collect the Legion of Super-Pets, as Satan Girl's powers would not effect them. The Super-Pets manage to easily defeat Satan Girl, who is unmasked, revealing that she is really -- Supergirl!? The weakened Satan Girl explains that she is the product of Red Kryptonite, which Supergirl was exposed to upon entering the 30th Century. Knowing that she had only 48 hours of life, she adopted the guise of Satan Girl and created a device that would siphon the Red Kryptonite radiation and infect females with it, in hopes that once she had rid herself of the Red Kryptonite energies she could live past the 48 hour period which Red Kryptonite effects. With her plan a failure, and the 48 hours running their course, Satan Girl merges with Supergirl. After wards, the Legion learns that Satan Girl managed to handle Green Kryptonite because she wore a lead suit. After this revelation, although they are victorious and their female members restored to normal, the Legion takes a moment to feel pity for Satan Girl, for all she wanted to do was live. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #314 The Super-Villains Of All Ages! November 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte Posing as an applicant for potential Legion membership, the evil Alaktor manages to take x-ray photos of every device within Legion headquarters. Sneaking back into their base, Alaktor steals one of the Legion's time bubbles in hopes of recruiting histories most evil criminals. The Legion stumbles upon Alaktor's plot and try to stop him across different periods. However, Alaktor manages to avoid capture while recruiting Nero, John Dillinger, and Adolf Hitler from history and bring them to the 30th Century. With a mind swap device, Alaktor manages to switch the minds of Hitler, Dillinger, and Nero into the bodies of Superboy, Mon-El and Ultra-Boy. The three then turn against Alaktor and decide to commit crimes across the universe for their own gain. The Legion tries to stop them, but in the bodies of their near indestructible friends, this proves to the easier said than done. However, the evil and opportunistic natures of Hitler, Dillinger and Nero get the better of them and all three knock each other out using the weaknesses their stolen super-bodies are vulnerable too. This allows the Legion to gather them up, and restore their friends minds back into their own bodies, return the historical figures to their own times and undo the damage they had done in the 30th Century. - via DC Wikia

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, two very troubling stories that in hindsight were really terrible ideas. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #313 The Condemned Legionnaires! October 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: Curt Swan When most the female members of the Legion of Super-Heroes (and Night Girl of the Legion of Substitute Heroes) come down with the Crimson Virus, they have to be sent to a quarantine planet. The rest of the female members are hunted down by a mysterious masked villain named Satan Girl, who seems to be infecting the female Legionnaires with the virus. With the arrival of Supergirl, who is immune to the virus, the male Legion members try to learn the origins of Satan Girl. When she proves immune to Kryptonite, Lead and an anti-android weapon, the heroes are puzzled to figure out her true identity. Unable to defeat her due to her superior powers, Supergirl has the Legion go and collect the Legion of Super-Pets, as Satan Girl's powers would not effect them. The Super-Pets manage to easily defeat Satan Girl, who is unmasked, revealing that she is really -- Supergirl!? The weakened Satan Girl explains that she is the product of Red Kryptonite, which Supergirl was exposed to upon entering the 30th Century. Knowing that she had only 48 hours of life, she adopted the guise of Satan Girl and created a device that would siphon the Red Kryptonite radiation and infect females with it, in hopes that once she had rid herself of the Red Kryptonite energies she could live past the 48 hour period which Red Kryptonite effects. With her plan a failure, and the 48 hours running their course, Satan Girl merges with Supergirl. After wards, the Legion learns that Satan Girl managed to handle Green Kryptonite because she wore a lead suit. After this revelation, although they are victorious and their female members restored to normal, the Legion takes a moment to feel pity for Satan Girl, for all she wanted to do was live. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #314 The Super-Villains Of All Ages! November 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte Posing as an applicant for potential Legion membership, the evil Alaktor manages to take x-ray photos of every device within Legion headquarters. Sneaking back into their base, Alaktor steals one of the Legion's time bubbles in hopes of recruiting histories most evil criminals. The Legion stumbles upon Alaktor's plot and try to stop him across different periods. However, Alaktor manages to avoid capture while recruiting Nero, John Dillinger, and Adolf Hitler from history and bring them to the 30th Century. With a mind swap device, Alaktor manages to switch the minds of Hitler, Dillinger, and Nero into the bodies of Superboy, Mon-El and Ultra-Boy. The three then turn against Alaktor and decide to commit crimes across the universe for their own gain. The Legion tries to stop them, but in the bodies of their near indestructible friends, this proves to the easier said than done. However, the evil and opportunistic natures of Hitler, Dillinger and Nero get the better of them and all three knock each other out using the weaknesses their stolen super-bodies are vulnerable too. This allows the Legion to gather them up, and restore their friends minds back into their own bodies, return the historical figures to their own times and undo the damage they had done in the 30th Century. - via DC Wikia

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, it's the moment we've all been waiting for - the return of Lightning Lad! But, at what cost? In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #311 The War Between The Substitute Heroes And The Legionnaires! August 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the Legion of Super-Heroes are called off onto a mission in space an alien craft lands on Earth. Finding it suspicious, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decide to check it out. After fighting off the ships defenses, they are chased away by members of the Legion. Offering their aid to the Legion, the Substitute Heroes find that their idols have turned mean, and demand that they disband or be destroyed. Escaping, the group wonders what has gotten into the Legion of Super-Heroes. When Night Girl attempts to talk sense into Cosmic Boy, this leads the Legion to track the Substitutes to their secret headquarters to try and destroy them. However, the Substitutes manage to hold their own, and reveal the "Legion" as members of the Zyzan race who posed as the Legion in an attempt to take over the Earth. With their true motives revealed, the Zyzan invaders are easily defeated by Polar Boy's freezing powers, and the Substitute Legion returns them to their own planet and decide to return to their relative secrecy, choosing to wait to reveal themselves to the real Legion. When the real Legion of Super-Heroes return from space from the fake distress call, they are left to wonder what to make of the alien ship that crashed on Earth. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #312 The Super-Sacrifice Of The Legionnaires! September 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When Superboy finds a world where the sun restores the people to life, it encourages him to go to the Legion and try to find a way to restore their deceased comrade, Lightning Lad to life. After scouring the universe for different ways to restore Lightning Lad to life, the Legion cannot find a method that works. Traveling to his home world of Daxam with Saturn Girl, Mon-El comes up with another method. Bringing the Legion back to the Lightning World where Lightning Lad's body is kept, the shows them a special lightning rod which when struck by lightning would cause the life force from one being to transfer into another, restoring the dead body to life. With all the Legion members wanting to give their all to revive Lightning Lad, they all agree to hold a rod, leaving the choice of who will sacrifice their life to fate. However, when the a bolt seemingly strike Saturn Girl, the Legion are shocked to find that it was really Chameleon Boy's pet Proty in disguise. However, in spite of who sacrificed himself, Lightning Lad is restored to life. When the real Saturn Girl catches up with the Legion, she explains that as Proty was also a telepath, the creature learned of Saturn Girl's intention to sacrifice herself to restore Lightning Lad, and sacrificed itself in her place. With the truth revealed, the Legion takes a moment to mourn the loss of Proty. - via DC Wikia [su_signoff]

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, it's the moment we've all been waiting for - the return of Lightning Lad! But, at what cost? In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #311 The War Between The Substitute Heroes And The Legionnaires! August 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the Legion of Super-Heroes are called off onto a mission in space an alien craft lands on Earth. Finding it suspicious, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decide to check it out. After fighting off the ships defenses, they are chased away by members of the Legion. Offering their aid to the Legion, the Substitute Heroes find that their idols have turned mean, and demand that they disband or be destroyed. Escaping, the group wonders what has gotten into the Legion of Super-Heroes. When Night Girl attempts to talk sense into Cosmic Boy, this leads the Legion to track the Substitutes to their secret headquarters to try and destroy them. However, the Substitutes manage to hold their own, and reveal the "Legion" as members of the Zyzan race who posed as the Legion in an attempt to take over the Earth. With their true motives revealed, the Zyzan invaders are easily defeated by Polar Boy's freezing powers, and the Substitute Legion returns them to their own planet and decide to return to their relative secrecy, choosing to wait to reveal themselves to the real Legion. When the real Legion of Super-Heroes return from space from the fake distress call, they are left to wonder what to make of the alien ship that crashed on Earth. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #312 The Super-Sacrifice Of The Legionnaires! September 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When Superboy finds a world where the sun restores the people to life, it encourages him to go to the Legion and try to find a way to restore their deceased comrade, Lightning Lad to life. After scouring the universe for different ways to restore Lightning Lad to life, the Legion cannot find a method that works. Traveling to his home world of Daxam with Saturn Girl, Mon-El comes up with another method. Bringing the Legion back to the Lightning World where Lightning Lad's body is kept, the shows them a special lightning rod which when struck by lightning would cause the life force from one being to transfer into another, restoring the dead body to life. With all the Legion members wanting to give their all to revive Lightning Lad, they all agree to hold a rod, leaving the choice of who will sacrifice their life to fate. However, when the a bolt seemingly strike Saturn Girl, the Legion are shocked to find that it was really Chameleon Boy's pet Proty in disguise. However, in spite of who sacrificed himself, Lightning Lad is restored to life. When the real Saturn Girl catches up with the Legion, she explains that as Proty was also a telepath, the creature learned of Saturn Girl's intention to sacrifice herself to restore Lightning Lad, and sacrificed itself in her place. With the truth revealed, the Legion takes a moment to mourn the loss of Proty. - via DC Wikia [su_signoff]

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, it's the moment we've all been waiting for - the return of Lightning Lad! But, at what cost? In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #311 The War Between The Substitute Heroes And The Legionnaires! August 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When the Legion of Super-Heroes are called off onto a mission in space an alien craft lands on Earth. Finding it suspicious, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decide to check it out. After fighting off the ships defenses, they are chased away by members of the Legion. Offering their aid to the Legion, the Substitute Heroes find that their idols have turned mean, and demand that they disband or be destroyed. Escaping, the group wonders what has gotten into the Legion of Super-Heroes. When Night Girl attempts to talk sense into Cosmic Boy, this leads the Legion to track the Substitutes to their secret headquarters to try and destroy them. However, the Substitutes manage to hold their own, and reveal the "Legion" as members of the Zyzan race who posed as the Legion in an attempt to take over the Earth. With their true motives revealed, the Zyzan invaders are easily defeated by Polar Boy's freezing powers, and the Substitute Legion returns them to their own planet and decide to return to their relative secrecy, choosing to wait to reveal themselves to the real Legion. When the real Legion of Super-Heroes return from space from the fake distress call, they are left to wonder what to make of the alien ship that crashed on Earth. - via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #312 The Super-Sacrifice Of The Legionnaires! September 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte When Superboy finds a world where the sun restores the people to life, it encourages him to go to the Legion and try to find a way to restore their deceased comrade, Lightning Lad to life. After scouring the universe for different ways to restore Lightning Lad to life, the Legion cannot find a method that works. Traveling to his home world of Daxam with Saturn Girl, Mon-El comes up with another method. Bringing the Legion back to the Lightning World where Lightning Lad's body is kept, the shows them a special lightning rod which when struck by lightning would cause the life force from one being to transfer into another, restoring the dead body to life. With all the Legion members wanting to give their all to revive Lightning Lad, they all agree to hold a rod, leaving the choice of who will sacrifice their life to fate. However, when the a bolt seemingly strike Saturn Girl, the Legion are shocked to find that it was really Chameleon Boy's pet Proty in disguise. However, in spite of who sacrificed himself, Lightning Lad is restored to life. When the real Saturn Girl catches up with the Legion, she explains that as Proty was also a telepath, the creature learned of Saturn Girl's intention to sacrifice herself to restore Lightning Lad, and sacrificed itself in her place. With the truth revealed, the Legion takes a moment to mourn the loss of Proty. - via DC Wikia [su_signoff]

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, we take a look at Adventure Comics #305 and #306, and we meet the kids that didn't get into the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/LegionClubhouse8.mp3 Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #305 Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! February 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: John Forte With the recent demise of Lightning Lad, the Legion of Super-Heroes begins looking for an adequate replacement to fill the void left by the heroes death. After testing a series of would-be Legionnaires who's powers either turned out to be duds or artificial, the Legion is met by a costumed youngster calling himself Marvel Lad. Wanting nothing but the best possible candidate to take the late Lightning Lad's place, the Legion puts Marvel Lad on a series of complex tests to see if he stands up to the Legion's values and codes. When Marvel Lad is able to complete all the missions the Legion asks him to reveal the origins of his powers before he is introduced into the group. The next day Marvel Lad arrives and reveals that he is really Mon-El in disguise. He then reveals to an astonished Legion that Brainiac 5 had developed a new version of serum XY-4 to try and cure Mon-El of his lead poisoning that forced him to reside in the Phantom Zone. To test out if the serum will work, but not get the other Legion's hopes up, Mon-El took on the guise of Marvel Lad and try out for Legion membership, that way if the serum didn't work the Legion wouldn't be disappointed. Having passed the Legion's tests, Mon-El is welcomed into the Legion as their new member, and Mon-El returns to the Phantom Zone one last time to get the last laugh on the criminals trapped there who have taunted and tormented him during his time living within the Zone. via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #306 The Legion of Substitute Heroes March 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte After being rejected for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, five super-powered teens decide to join together to become the Legion of Substitute Heroes. They are: Night Girl, who has super-human strength but only during the night; Fire-Lad who can breath fire; Chlorophyll Kid who can control plant life; Polar Boy who has freeze powers; and Stone Boy, who can turn into an immobile, and indestructible stone statue at will. Building a secret base, the Substitute Heroes decide to try and be on call to help the Legion of Super-Heroes when there is trouble. However, whenever there is a mission to be accomplished, the Legion seems adept at solving the problem on their own. However, when the Legion is busy fighting robots in space, the Earth is attacked by a number of Plant Men. Easily defeating them, the Legion of Substitute Heroes tracks the race to their planet, where they find that the Plant Men are preparing for a full scale invasion of the Earth. The Substitute Heroes work together and crush the Plant Men's scheme, using their own reproduction methods against them. Returning to the Earth as unsung heroes in light of the Legion's recent victory over the robots, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decides to remain together, but deciding to keep their victory secret so as not to steal any of the Legion's glory in the hopes that some day they can act publicly as the Legion of Substitute Heroes. via DC Wikia

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, we take a look at Adventure Comics #305 and #306, and we meet the kids that didn't get into the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/LegionClubhouse8.mp3 Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #305 Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! February 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: John Forte With the recent demise of Lightning Lad, the Legion of Super-Heroes begins looking for an adequate replacement to fill the void left by the heroes death. After testing a series of would-be Legionnaires who's powers either turned out to be duds or artificial, the Legion is met by a costumed youngster calling himself Marvel Lad. Wanting nothing but the best possible candidate to take the late Lightning Lad's place, the Legion puts Marvel Lad on a series of complex tests to see if he stands up to the Legion's values and codes. When Marvel Lad is able to complete all the missions the Legion asks him to reveal the origins of his powers before he is introduced into the group. The next day Marvel Lad arrives and reveals that he is really Mon-El in disguise. He then reveals to an astonished Legion that Brainiac 5 had developed a new version of serum XY-4 to try and cure Mon-El of his lead poisoning that forced him to reside in the Phantom Zone. To test out if the serum will work, but not get the other Legion's hopes up, Mon-El took on the guise of Marvel Lad and try out for Legion membership, that way if the serum didn't work the Legion wouldn't be disappointed. Having passed the Legion's tests, Mon-El is welcomed into the Legion as their new member, and Mon-El returns to the Phantom Zone one last time to get the last laugh on the criminals trapped there who have taunted and tormented him during his time living within the Zone. via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #306 The Legion of Substitute Heroes March 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte After being rejected for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, five super-powered teens decide to join together to become the Legion of Substitute Heroes. They are: Night Girl, who has super-human strength but only during the night; Fire-Lad who can breath fire; Chlorophyll Kid who can control plant life; Polar Boy who has freeze powers; and Stone Boy, who can turn into an immobile, and indestructible stone statue at will. Building a secret base, the Substitute Heroes decide to try and be on call to help the Legion of Super-Heroes when there is trouble. However, whenever there is a mission to be accomplished, the Legion seems adept at solving the problem on their own. However, when the Legion is busy fighting robots in space, the Earth is attacked by a number of Plant Men. Easily defeating them, the Legion of Substitute Heroes tracks the race to their planet, where they find that the Plant Men are preparing for a full scale invasion of the Earth. The Substitute Heroes work together and crush the Plant Men's scheme, using their own reproduction methods against them. Returning to the Earth as unsung heroes in light of the Legion's recent victory over the robots, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decides to remain together, but deciding to keep their victory secret so as not to steal any of the Legion's glory in the hopes that some day they can act publicly as the Legion of Substitute Heroes. via DC Wikia

In this episode of The Legion Clubhouse, we take a look at Adventure Comics #305 and #306, and we meet the kids that didn't get into the Legion of Super-Heroes. In the city of Metropolis, in the 30th Century, there exists one of the most amazing clubs of all time! It's members are teen-aged youths, each possessing on special super-powers! The club members have vowed to use their fantastic power to battle crime... This rocket shaped building is the Legion Clubhouse! http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/LegionClubhouse8.mp3 Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patron. It will help ensure The Major Spoilers Podcast continues far into the future! Adventure Comics #305 Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire! February 1963 w: Jerry Siegel a: John Forte With the recent demise of Lightning Lad, the Legion of Super-Heroes begins looking for an adequate replacement to fill the void left by the heroes death. After testing a series of would-be Legionnaires who's powers either turned out to be duds or artificial, the Legion is met by a costumed youngster calling himself Marvel Lad. Wanting nothing but the best possible candidate to take the late Lightning Lad's place, the Legion puts Marvel Lad on a series of complex tests to see if he stands up to the Legion's values and codes. When Marvel Lad is able to complete all the missions the Legion asks him to reveal the origins of his powers before he is introduced into the group. The next day Marvel Lad arrives and reveals that he is really Mon-El in disguise. He then reveals to an astonished Legion that Brainiac 5 had developed a new version of serum XY-4 to try and cure Mon-El of his lead poisoning that forced him to reside in the Phantom Zone. To test out if the serum will work, but not get the other Legion's hopes up, Mon-El took on the guise of Marvel Lad and try out for Legion membership, that way if the serum didn't work the Legion wouldn't be disappointed. Having passed the Legion's tests, Mon-El is welcomed into the Legion as their new member, and Mon-El returns to the Phantom Zone one last time to get the last laugh on the criminals trapped there who have taunted and tormented him during his time living within the Zone. via DC Wikia Adventure Comics #306 The Legion of Substitute Heroes March 1963 w: Edmond Hamilton a: John Forte After being rejected for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes, five super-powered teens decide to join together to become the Legion of Substitute Heroes. They are: Night Girl, who has super-human strength but only during the night; Fire-Lad who can breath fire; Chlorophyll Kid who can control plant life; Polar Boy who has freeze powers; and Stone Boy, who can turn into an immobile, and indestructible stone statue at will. Building a secret base, the Substitute Heroes decide to try and be on call to help the Legion of Super-Heroes when there is trouble. However, whenever there is a mission to be accomplished, the Legion seems adept at solving the problem on their own. However, when the Legion is busy fighting robots in space, the Earth is attacked by a number of Plant Men. Easily defeating them, the Legion of Substitute Heroes tracks the race to their planet, where they find that the Plant Men are preparing for a full scale invasion of the Earth. The Substitute Heroes work together and crush the Plant Men's scheme, using their own reproduction methods against them. Returning to the Earth as unsung heroes in light of the Legion's recent victory over the robots, the Legion of Substitute Heroes decides to remain together, but deciding to keep their victory secret so as not to steal any of the Legion's glory in the hopes that some day they can act publicly as the Legion of Substitute Heroes. via DC Wikia

We return to the 30th century for this next episode of WHO’S WHO IN THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES! Shag is joined by Siskoid, Tim Wallace, and Dr Anj of the Legion of Super Bloggers! This episode we cover issues #3 & #4 of this 7 issue series! We look at characters like: Legion of Substitute Heroes, Invisible Kid I & II, Karate Kid I & II, Khunds, Legion of Super-Villains, Lightning Lad & Lass, Mon-El, and many more! Have a question or comment? Looking for more great content? Leave comments on our website: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/ww-legion2 Images from this episode: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/ww-legion2-gallery Legion of Super Bloggers: http://legionofsuperbloggers.blogspot.com Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: http://siskoid.blogspot.com Kord Industries - A Blue Beetle Blog: http://kordindustries.blogspot.com Anj's Supergirl Blog: http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com E-MAIL: firewaterpodcast@comcast.net Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/whos-who-definitive-podcast/id1087335211 Our fantastic opening theme is by Daniel Adams and Ashton Burge with their band The Bad Mamma Jammas! http://www.facebook.com/BadMammaJammas Closing music from the Legion of Super Heroes animated TV series. This episode brought to you by InStockTrades: http://instocktrades.com This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK: Visit the Fire & Water WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com Follow Fire & Water on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our Fire & Water FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts Thanks for listening! Long Live the Legion!

The Subs take a look at an issue that features the Subs! Tales of the Legion 316 takes Cosmic Boy and the Substitute Heroes on a joyride through space, as well as the conclusion of the White Witch’s origin.

Episode #59: Superman & The Legion Of Substitute Heroes This time out, we'll be getting into DC Comics Presents #59. We start this week's episode with Listener Feedback. (and once again I grovel for more email and comments)  Next, we have a Spotlight on … Continue reading →

Ryan Daly and returning guest Siskoid review the origin of the Legion of Super Substitute Heroes from Secret Origins #37. Then, Aaron “Head” Moss helps Ryan cover the story of the supervillain Doctor Light. Secret Origins Podcast Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/secretoriginspodcast Secret Origins Podcast on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpsecretoriginspodcastlibsyncom/secret-origins-podcast?refid=stpr Let us know what you think! Leave a comment or send an email to: RDalyPodcast@gmail.com. Follow Siskoid on the Fire and Water Podcast Network at: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/shows/ Check out Aaron’s Headcast Network at: http://www.headspeaks.com This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK. Visit our WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com/ Follow us on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our FACEBOOK page - https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts Subscribe via iTunes as part of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/the-fire-and-water-podcast/id463855630 “Premonition” (Theme for Secret Origins Podcast) written and performed by Neil Daly. Additional music: “Substitute” by The Who; “Everyday is Like Sunday” by Morrissey; “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance. Thanks for listening!

Matt, Darren and Paul are joined by Stewart MacWilliam, aka Wetrats, as they review the greatest single issue of any comic book ever: DC Comics Presents #59, Superman and The Legion of Substitute Heroes. Thrill to the exploits of Ambush Bug in the 30th Century, as rendered by Keith Giffen. Also, our heroes choose their […]

Matt, Darren and Paul list their Top 5 Legion Romances, as we see Phantom Girl and Ultra Boy begin their relationship. If only he weren’t such a dirty criminal… or is he? Also, one of the Substitute Heroes has a chance to join the big team. Which one will it be? All this and Listener […]

In this episode, Ric, Darren and Paul review Adventure 305 and 306. They find out the identity of the Mystery Legionnaire (no, not Matt, the other one!) and meet their namesakes, the Legion of Substitute Heroes! We read some feedback  (here’s the link we read in the letter from Logan). Just a reminder that The Legion of […]

Show 3: Legion of Substitute Heroes, Tammy Pierce is Unlovable, Alien Loves Predator, and tips for fanboys.