Legion Super Heroes Vol Oct 1990
Kids WB! Brings you a new series inspired by the DC Comics legend Superman. In LEGION OF SUPER HEROES, a team of superheroes from the 31st century heads back in time to enlist Superman’s help in battling their nemeses, the Fatal Five. But when they arrive in the Man of Steel’s hometown, Smallville, they discover that they’ve miscalculated a bit. Instead of a powerful, convinced Superman, they find the introverted, insecure young adult Clark Kent, whose abilities need fine-tuning and who knows not one thing of the legend that comic book history says he’ll become.It takes numerous effort, but Brainiac 5, Bouncing Boy, and Saturn Girl convince Clark that he’s special and may be capable to support them. Although he sincerely doubts that he’s the “Superman” they keep talking about, his curiosity is piqued sufficient that he goes back to the future with them. The legion itself is a group of well-meaning, undisciplined and unpredictable, super powered young adults who just take place to be the Universe’s only hope. The Legionnaires are still light-years away from getting the seasoned (and cynical) masters of the Justice League.
Ever since the late-1950s, DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes has always had a dedicated, almost cult-ish following, but surely a Saturday-morning animated series was more than anybody could have hoped for. Even better, the series was well-written and rather good, and a good representation of the comic book. The LSH is a group of super-powered teenagers one thousand years in the future who time-travel to the past to recruit Superman to join their team. Due to a slight miscalculation, they go to Smallville and find the teenage Clark Kent, but he’s still a great deal powerful sufficient to join. (For legal reasons, the series was unable to use the name Superboy, so they still refer to him as Superman.) One of the quirky things when it comes to the Legion was it is big roster of characters, but the series concentrates on a handful, including Lightning Lad (with the power of electricity), Saturn Girl (telepathy), Brainiac 5 (a 12th-level intelligence and ego to match), Phantom Girl (intangibility), and Bouncing Boy (um, with the powers of a rubber ball, perhaps for diversity reasons?), though others appear or are name-dropped.
In the four sequences included in vol. 1, the Legion battles the Fatal Five, they meet a menacing reputation named Timber Wolf, Superman is attracted to a selfish teen celebrity (this is where referring to the reputation as Superboy would have been less icky), and Clark inadvertently releases a super-powered villain from the Phantom Zone. It’s ominous that only four sequences were freed rather than a full season, specially giving careful consideration to a couple of them were rerun oftentimes on the Kids WB when the series was new. There’s also a nine-minute featurette in which the creators talk about the series, including how the Levitz-Giffen era was considered a “template.” –David Horiuchi
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56 of 63 people found the following review helpful.
 This is SO Cynical
By Geena
The only reason Time-Warner continues to put out this one disc/three-four episodes nonsense is to snare small children, who will needle their parents into making the impulse buy. The adult fans of these shows already know to wait for the inevitable box sets. This is aimed squarely at kids, who don’t have the ability to discern what a bad deal it truly is. Shame on you, Time-Warner.
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
seriously , do NOT buy this item. support full season sets
By jason bryan
I agree with some of the other writers here. If you buy this dvd you are supporting Warner Bro’s and their consistant greedy bonehead decisions to constantly release these 3-4 episode per dvd items. It’s ridiculous and a RIP OFF!! YOu can get the entire seasons of the Batman for no more that 15 bucks right after the season ends..but this cartoon you get only 4 episides for the same price and its also WB. Greedy. Please do not purchase this item. Force full season sets to be released day 1. True fans..I know you agree…represent.
24 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Why Does Warner Keep Doing This?
By ttenchantr
I hate that Warner keeps doing these one disc/3 or 4 episode releases for their cartoon series first and waiting years to do full season releases. Full seasons releases are the standard now and I wish that Warner would get on board. I’ll be waiting for the full season and will laugh when I see this release in the cut-out bin next year.
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