{"id":4269,"date":"2022-07-21T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2022-07-09T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:33:58","slug":"774-foreshadowing-another-future-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/774-foreshadowing-another-future-legion\/","title":{"rendered":"774 &#8211; Foreshadowing Another Future Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference-1024x460.png\" alt=\"Young Lex theorizing about Legion of Super-Villains in Superboy #68 (Nov 1960)\" class=\"wp-image-4271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference-1024x460.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference-768x345.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196011-legion-of-super-villains-reference.png 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Young Lex theorizing about Legion of Super-Villains in Superboy #68 (Nov 1960)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Superboy #68 (Nov 1960) features the next appearance of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/732-superboy-meets-lex\/\">young Lex Luthor<\/a> in a Superboy story. Superboy eventually defeats the &#8220;Army of Living Kryptonite Men&#8221; by getting help another L.L: Lightning Lad from the Legion of Super-Heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lex learns of the existence of the Legion and theorizes that a Legion of Super-Villains must also exist in the future. This is the first time I&#8217;ve noticed DC trying to fore-shadow a bigger arc and future story directions across its books outside of the letters column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superboy #68 (Nov 1960) features the next appearance of a young Lex Luthor in a Superboy story. Superboy eventually defeats the &#8220;Army of Living Kryptonite Men&#8221; by getting help another L.L: Lightning Lad from the Legion of Super-Heroes. Lex learns of the existence of the Legion and theorizes that a Legion of Super-Villains must also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,14,700,472,702,347,701,139,304,660],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-dc","tag-foreshadowing","tag-legion-of-super-heroes","tag-legion-of-super-villains","tag-letters-column","tag-lightning-lad","tag-luthor","tag-superboy","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}