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.

Continuity family
Era	code
Preboot Pre-Crisis (until Feb 1986) class="preboot_prec_heading" Post-Crisis (Mar 1986-Aug 1989) class="preboot_postc_heading" Five Years Later/Glorithverse (Aug 1989-Aug 1994) class="preboot_5yl_heading" Retroboot (overlaps with Threeboot Aug 2006-Jan 2009, main Feb 2009-Aug 2011) class="preboot_retro_heading" Post-Flashpoint (Sep 2011-present) class="preboot_postfp_heading"
Reboot Post-Zero Hour (Aug 1994-Oct 2004) class="reboot_postzh_heading" Earth-247 (never main version, occasional use May 2006 onward) class="reboot_e247_heading"
Threeboot Earth-Prime (Oct 2004-Jan 2009, occasional use thereafter) class="threeboot_eprime_heading"
Television Based on Legion of Super Heroes cartoon class="cartoon_lsh_heading" Based on DCAU (Superman: TAS, Justice League Unlimited) class="cartoon_dcau_heading"
Elseworlds Other class="elseworlds_heading"

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, derive from the heading colours above:

Preboot (Pre-Crisis)	Preboot (Post-Crisis)	Preboot (5YL)	Preboot (Retro)	Preboot (Post-Flashpoint)	Reboot (Post-ZH)	Reboot (Earth-247)	Threeboot (Earth-Prime)	Elseworlds	Cartoon (DCAU)	Cartoon (LSH)
Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era	Out-of-era
Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint	Reprint		Reprint
Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo