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News: SBC Spotlights on Best of Legion Outpost
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Celebrating the Best of a Fanzine that Influenced the Future
BEST OF THE LEGION OUTPOST (24 Nov 2004)
By Keith Dallas(excerpt)
Flipping through The Best of the Legion Outpost, one can’t help but admire the wide-ranging artwork: from the silly Fred Hembeck images to bold George Perez character models, from unpublished Jimmy Janes covers to reprints of Curt Swan Adventure Comics covers from the 1960s. My favorite is a two-page 13 panel Keith Giffen Legion of Super-Heroes in-house promo from the 1982 DC Sampler that I haven’t seen in over twenty years. Each panel uses the title of another DC comic (Adventure, Action, Detective, Combat, Mystery in Space, Young Love, Plop) to emphasize the varying aspects of The Legion of Super-Heroes. Like last year’s The Legion Companion, The Best of the Legion Outpost is amazingly littered with both familiar Legion images and unseen commission work from private collections.
