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The Legion of Super-Heroes is a superhero team in
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series published by
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. The team has gone through various iterations. Starting with the founding trio of
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,
Lightning Lad Garth Ranzz, also known as Live Wire and Lightning Lad, is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics, usually those featuring the Legion of Superheroes, a 30th and 31st century group of which he is a founding mem ...
, and
Saturn Girl Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American DC comic books. A talented telepath from the 30th century, Saturn Girl is a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Imra's "Saturn Girl" title refers to her homewo ...
, all versions of the team include teenage superheroes from several planets and alien races. In some versions, the team swells to two dozen or more members, with different sub-groupings, such as the
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.


Original team (1958–1994)

Introduced in ''Adventure Comics'' #247 (April 1958), the original version of the team appeared in various titles for 36 years until ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' (vol. 4) #61 (September 1994).


Founding members


Silver Age members


"Bronze Age" members


Post-''Crisis on Infinite Earths'' members


Joined during the "Five Year Gap"

Many of these individuals were only depicted in flashbacks, and information regarding their tenure is often extremely limited.


Joined after the "Five Year Gap"


Reserve and honorary members


Expelled members


Batch SW6/New Earth team

Introduced in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 4, #24 (December 1991), "Batch SW6" included teenage versions of the original Legion (whose members had all reached adulthood), which appeared in the original continuity until ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 4, #61 (September 1994). Batch SW6's roster was equivalent to the original Legion's membership immediately following the team's first encounter with
Universo Universo is a Legion of Super-Heroes supervillain in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics universe. He was created by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan, and first appeared in ''Adventure Comics'' #349 (October 1966). Pre-Zero Hour Universo first ...
,The Legion first battled Universo in '' Adventure Comics'' #349 (October 1966). In the following issue,
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and Dream Girl rejoined the team under the aliases "Sir Prize" and "Miss Terious", but the two are not included in Batch SW6.
with Valor and Laurel Gand replacing Superboy, Mon-El and Supergirl (with all three of Triplicate Girl's bodies intact). The members of this team were shown to be temporal duplicates of the original Legionnaires created by the Time Trapper.''Valor'' #23 (September 1994) Additionally, five non-SW6 members joined: Computo (Danielle Foccart), Dragonmage, Catspaw, Kid Quantum, and the adult Reep Daggle (Chameleon).


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members (1994–2004)

This version of the Legion emerged in the aftermath of '' Zero Hour'', and first appeared in ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 4, #0 (October 1994). It was revealed in ''
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'' #6 (May 2006) that this version of the team inhabits Earth-247.


Founding members


Pre-draft


Draftees


Post-draft


Post-Blight


"Threeboot" Legion (2004–2009)

This version of the Legion first appeared in the ''Teen Titans/Legion Special'' (November 2004). It was revealed in ''Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds'' #5 (September 2009) that this version of the team inhabits Earth-Prime, the home of supervillain Superboy-Prime.


Founding members


Recruits


Reserve members


Post-''Infinite Crisis'' Legion (1958–1989, 2007–2015)

This version of the Legion was first introduced in ''Adventure Comics'' #247 (April 1958) as the original version of the team, which appeared under various titles for 31 years until ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 3, #63 (August 1989). The "Five Years Later" Legion (1989–1994, vol. 4) picks up the original Legion's story line with "
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" story arc in ''
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'' and ''
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'' (June–August 2007). Its membership reflects the original, pre-''
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'' Legion up to the events of ''Legion of Super-Heroes'' vol. 3, #63, and includes changes in Legion membership made in the '' Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes'' story arc, the '' Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds'' mini-series, and subsequent volumes of ''Legion of Super-Heroes''.


Founding members


Silver Age members


"Bronze Age" members


Post-''Infinite Crisis'' members


Arrowverse

This version of the team appears in the TV series ''
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'', referred to as "the Legion".


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References

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