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![[First Legion of Super-Heroes flag]](../images/f/fic_ls60s.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010 |
![[Legion of Super-Heroes]](../images/f/fic_ls-c1.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010 |
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The Legion of Super-Heroes occupies a future (31st-century) setting in
the DC comics universe. A recent reboot (Teenage Revolution, vol.
5, #1-6, by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson, December 2005) recasts the
Legion in a somewhat political light, as the title suggests; it not
only fights supervillains, but acts as an agent of (generally
unwelcome) change and idealism in a galactic society that has ossified
into a rigid, sterile utopia.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
More about the comics on Wikipedia.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
The official flag of the Legion of Super-Heroes can be seen at Comic Treadmill. It's of indestructable material and luminous, so it can be seen for hundreds of miles.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010
The white lines visible in the image are probably not a fringe, but are rather meant to represent
the fact that – as the member in that panel says – the flag glows.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
From the look of that picture (judging from the super-heroes' costumes), the episode of the flag must have
been published well before I started to read the comic in the late 1970s. They did however retain that letter L
as a sign throughout the years I was reading it, but without any planets or anything around it.
Elias Granqvist, 22 January 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
The emblem of the Legion is a an L inscribed in a circle, with a fireball or comet rising diagonally from the L's joint. (Example.)
Several flags of the Legion appear (in what are more-or-less political-party contexts,
being flown by the Legion's non-powered followers camped out in front of their HQ on Earth).
(Examples,
example.)
The principal design appears to be: red with the Legion emblem offset toward the hoist.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
Several variants of the flag appear.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
![[Legion of Super-Heroes, variant]](../images/f/fic_ls-c2.gif)
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![[Legion of Super-Heroes, variant]](../images/f/fic_ls-c3.gif)
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![[Legion of Super-Heroes, variant]](../images/f/fic_ls-c4.gif)
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images by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010
![[Legion of Super-Heroes, pennant]](../images/f/fic_ls-c0.gif) image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010 |
A blue vertical pennant that a prospective Legion recruit
keeps in his bedroom in the prologue has the L reversed. Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010 |
A funny interlude has the Legion's leader pay a visit to the very rich girl with
no powers who funds the entire Legion out of her trust fund to annoy her parents.
While he is there, she asks him whether the redesign of the Legion's flag she had
suggested has been implemented yet; the leader has to sheepishly admit that they
cannot decide which picture of her to use.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 January 2010
![[Jungle King]](../images/f/fic_ls-jk.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
This flag, which can be seen at Comic Treadmill,
belongs to a supervillain called "Jungle King."
It's a quartered flag, green-red-yellow-blue, with the black-and-white
head of a different cranky-looking animal in profile in each one –
some kind of bird, a hippopotamus, a theropod dinosaur and something
like a moa with eyestalks? Trippy.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010,
and Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Various flags of galaxies and universes are shown halfmasted at Comic Threadmill.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010
The caption identifies these as flags of civilizations throughout a
dozen galaxies and far-flung island universes
, lowered in mourning
when the Legion member Lighting Lad is killed in action. They're rather
nice designs, too, generally speaking.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60a.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Blue, with two white circles on either side of a
black-outline Art-Deco rocketship.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60b.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Green pennant with white-ringed red planet.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60c.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Yellow with ringed large black star.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60d.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Red/black swallowtail, each half charged with one
large and one small yellow disc.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60e.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Black, large red star, shifted toward hoist and
surrounded by circle of seven small yellow stars.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60f.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Red, large 33-pointed white star with green disc in
center (I assume foreshortened in the image, rather than an oval)
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60g.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Orange, green design in uper hoist made of
concentric offset rings – meant to represent a wormhole? – plus a
Rutherford atom in black in the lower hoist.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
![[Many civilizations]](../images/f/fic_ls_60h.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
Yellow, outlined black a circle with two triangles, one on either side.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010
