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Hey Girls and Boys, Lads and Lasses, the biggest superhero team on any Earth, The Legion of Super-Heroes, tangles with the villainous Time Trapper as he turns their former ally Superboy against them. It’s an ambitious story in the post-Crisis world that serves as a template for DC storytelling to this day. We discuss this all with Legion super-fan and "DC Book of Lists" author Randall Lotowycz!
Ep. 94 What If the Time Trapper created a pocket universe to turn Superboy against the Legion of Super-Heroes?
With Special Guest author and editor Randall Lotowycz
Earth of an unknown designation as seen in the Superman & Legion of Super-Heroes crossover
The Legion of Super-Heroes can seem intimidating with their 20+ members from the traditional members like Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Mon-El to the wacky powered beings like Matter Eating Lad, Shrinking Violet, and Bouncing Boy, which is why we break down this team from the 60s through their major turning point post crisis in the 1980s. We travel through a multi issue arc constructed by major architects Paul Levitz and John Byrne that sees the Legion and Superman battle their old friend Superboy in a pocket universe, all controlled by the mysterious cloaked Time Trapper. We also discuss Time Trapper co-creator and Weird Tales writer Edmund Hamilton and how we are still seeing the reverberations of this story in DC’s current multiverse and alternate Earth storytelling on film and TV - including the upcoming Flash film from 2023 and more! Finally, we speculate what’s next for the Time Trapper and whether Marvel’s Kang stole his onscreen...time. We are joined by special returning guest, author and editor Randall Lotowycz.
Follow Randall on his website or on Twitter or Instagram. Purchase "The DC Book of Lists" here & watch for The Flash (2023 film) Visual Companion coming this June!
Reading List:
- Adventure Comics #318 (DC Comics 1964)
- Adventure Comics #321 (DC Comics 1964)
- Legion of Super-Heroes #37 (DC Comics 1987)
- Superman #8 (DC Comics 1987)
- Action Comics #591 (DC Comics 1987)
- Legion of Super-Heroes #38 (DC Comics 1987)
- Predictions on 2023's DCU Flash film, plus references to Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, and more!
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Theme music is Space Heroes by MaxKoMusic (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0)
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