Legion Publication History/Key

This page is written from the Real World point of view

The colours used on the Legion Publication History denote the following.

Heading colours

Used for year headers on the by-year pages, and for era on series which cross eras, such as Legion of Super-Heroes v4.

era_color
Colour	Era
#ff8080	Pre-Crisis
#8080ff	Post-Crisis/pre-Glorithverse
#cc99ff	Glorithverse
#5be85b	Post-Zero Hour
#96a02c	Post-Infinite Crisis (New Earth/main)
#cb9056	Post-Infinite Crisis (Lightning Saga)
#cccccc	Elseworlds

Issue background colours

These relate to issue entries, e.g.:

	Legionnaires #77 (published September 8, 1999; cover date November 1999) Endless Summer W: Roger Stern, Tom McCraw; P: Jeff Moy; I: W.C. Carani; C: Tom McCraw; L: Pat Brosseau; E: Mike McAvennie, Frank Berrios (Assistant Editor); "Adult Legionnaire" [Script Assistant]: Carmela Merlo
	Superboy's Legion #1 (published February 21, 2001, cover date 2001) (untitled) W: Mark Farmer; P: Alan Davis; I: Mark Farmer; C: Richard and Tanya Horie; L: Pat Prentice; E: Mike McAvennie Notes: Part 1 of an Elseworlds story in which Superboy is R.J. Brande's son and one of the original three founders of the Legion

White, as in the Legionnaires #77 example, denotes a "normal" issue - i.e., an issue of a Legion title, or a significant guest appearance, which follows the era denoted by the year/etc header.

Other background colours, such as the grey behind Superboy's Legion #1, break down as follows:

Out-of-era comics

These are comics primarily featuring the "wrong" Legion for the era. Most of these are automatically Elseworlds (grey), but occasionally an attempt to do an "in-continuity" story with an earlier Legion occurs.

In addition, with multiple versions post-Infinite Crisis, only the version with the main Legion comic is designated "in-era".

Colour	Era
#e5e5e5	Elseworlds
#ffd5d5	Pre-Crisis
#d5d5ff	Post-Crisis/pre-Glorithverse
#e5cfff	Glorithverse
#dfffc5	Post-Zero Hour
#e8efaf	Post-Infinite Crisis (New Earth/main)
#f3e2c2	Post-Infinite Crisis (Lightning Saga)

Reprints

These colours are used for comics, TPBs, etc which reprint other comics.

Where the issue reprints cameos, or contains original stories as well, the reprint colour is used as a border, rather than a solid background.

Colour	Era
#ffd5f5	Pre-Crisis
#d0e8ff	Post-Crisis/pre-Glorithverse
#efcfff	Glorithverse
#d5ffd5	Post-Zero Hour
#efecd1	Post-Infinite Crisis (New Earth/main)
#f4e2d2	Post-Infinite Crisis (Lightning Saga)
#dadada	Elseworlds

Cameos

These relate to non-speaking apparances of Legionnaires, the appearance of Legion-related elements without involving the team itself, or minor appearances of a page or less (excluding cliffhanger appearances which are followed up in the next issue).

Colour	Era
#f0d8d8	Pre-Crisis
#d8d8f0	Post-Crisis/pre-Glorithverse
#ded1ef	Glorithverse
#d5f4bf	Post-Zero Hour
#dcdfc3	Post-Infinite Crisis (New Earth/main)
#e6dcce	Post-Infinite Crisis (Lightning Saga)
#e5e5e5	Elseworlds

Colors sorted by era

Pre-Crisis

Colour	Purpose
#ff8080	Heading
#ffd5d5	Out of era
#ffd5f5	Reprint
#f0d8d8	Cameo

Post-Crisis

Colour	Purpose
#8080ff	Heading
#d5d5ff	Out of era
#d0e8ff	Reprint
#d8d8f0	Cameo

Glorithverse

Colour	Purpose
#cc99ff	Heading
#e5cfff	Out of era
#efcfff	Reprint
#ded1ef	Cameo

Post-Zero Hour

Colour	Purpose
#5be85b	Heading
#dfffc5	Out of era
#d5ffd5	Reprint
#d5f4bf	Cameo

Post-Infinite Crisis

New Earth (LoSH v5/SLoSH)

This is considered the "default" post-Infinite Crisis group as long as it has the main LoSH comic.

Colour	Purpose
#96a02c	Heading
#e8efaf	Out of era
#efecd1	Reprint
#dcdfc3	Cameo

Earth-?? (Lightning Saga)

Unless/Until this team becomes the team in the main LoSH comic, all appearances will be nominally "out of era"

Colour	Purpose
#cb9056	Heading
#f3e2c2	Out of era
#f4e2d2	Reprint
#e6dcce	Cameo