{"id":4388,"date":"2022-08-19T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2023-07-14T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:28:06","slug":"795-more-legion-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/795-more-legion-please\/","title":{"rendered":"795 – More Legion Please"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Action Comics #276, March 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

More Legionnaires are introduced in the Supergirl story in Action Comics #276 (March 1961). This time around, Saturn Girl<\/a> and two new-to-us members Phantom Girl<\/a> and Triplicate Girl<\/a> play pranks on poor ol’ Kara Zor-El and then invite her into the future where they want her to try out again for Legion membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That didn’t go so well last year<\/a>, but this year around they have decided to let one girl and one boy member join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, while there, she meets several other potential members ready to try out: Bouncing Boy<\/a>, Sun Boy<\/a>, Shrinking Violet<\/a>, and Brainiac 5<\/a>. A good deal of exposition is devoted to Brainiac 5 and his villainous ancestor, making Supergirl question whether he is a good guy or a bad guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Brainiac<\/a>
Brainiac 5 being heroic in Action Comics #276, March 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But as we all know, he’s a good guy. Well this time Supergirl makes it into the Legion of Super-Heroes and so does Brainiac 5! Brainiac 5 also makes it clear he has a crush on Supergirl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Brainiac<\/a>
Brainiac 5 crushing on Supergirl in Action Comics #276, March 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This was quite the issue for world-building with the Legion! Up to this point, I think we knew of 7 members (Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Chameleon Boy<\/a>, and Star Boy<\/a>). This story alone nearly doubles the number of characters they get to play with in future stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Legionnaires are introduced in the Supergirl story in Action Comics #276 (March 1961). This time around, Saturn Girl and two new-to-us members Phantom Girl and Triplicate Girl play pranks on poor ol’ Kara Zor-El and then invite her into the future where they want her to try out again for Legion membership. That didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,722,597,717,14,472,718,262,724,721,723,457,720],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-bouncing-boy","tag-brainiac","tag-brainiac-5","tag-dc","tag-legion-of-super-heroes","tag-phantom-girl","tag-romance","tag-saturn-girl","tag-shrinking-violet","tag-sun-boy","tag-supergirl","tag-triplicate-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}