Legion of Super-Heroes v4 Annual 2

Legion of Super-Heroes v4, Annual 2 Preboot » Five Years Later Cover artwork by Brandon Peterson and Scott Hanna Story title The Legend of Valor Previous story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #24: The Adventures of B.I.O.N.: Defender of Humankind Next story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #25: Untitled Publication date October 1, 1991 Cover date 1991 Creators Writer(s) Tom & Mary Bierbaum Penciller(s) Brandon Peterson Inker(s) Scott Hanna Letterer(s) Janice Chiang Colourist(s) Tom McCraw Editor(s) Dan Raspler Cover artist(s) Brandon Peterson, Scott Hanna

The Legend of Valor

(? pages/? panels)

Roll Call

Legionnaires

Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Sun Boy, Triad, Valor

• Brainiac 5 (? panels)
• Chameleon Boy (? panels)
• Cosmic Boy (? panels)
• Lightning Lad (? panels)
• Matter-Eater Lad (? panels)
• Phantom Girl (? panels)
• Saturn Girl (? panels)
• Sun Boy (? panels)
• Triad (? panels)
• Ultra Boy (? panels)
• Valor (? panels)

Villains

• Dark Circle (? panels)
• Dominators (? panels)
• Glorith (? panels)

Supporting Characters

• Vril Dox (? panels)

Notes

Errors and Oddities

• The story is untitled, but the cover sports the blurb "The Legend of Valor" which is used in this wiki as the story title.

Reboot Reference Kit

Zero Hour

While this annual functions as backstory for the "Glorithverse" Legion, the events of D.O.A. and End of an Era mean that the flashbacks were never realised in the Glorithverse 20th century, where time distortions caused by an attack by Glorith on Devlin O'Ryan would result in Glorith poisoning Valor and - when rejected - allowing him to die in the 20th century. An attempt to "patch" the timeline with the SW6 Valor failed to solve matters, and the contradiction would be a factor in the subsequent collapse and rebooting of the timeline.

Reboot

The series of flashbacks showing Valor's war against the Dominators and subsequent "seeding" of worlds occurs fully in Reboot (Post-Zero Hour) continuity (where the D.O.A. events never happened), between Valor #10 and Superboy v3 #17-19. where Valor appears amnesiac on Earth from lead poisoning, and is subsequently projected into the "Stasis Zone" by Superboy (Kon-El) to save his life rather than being sent to the Btzgl Buffer Zone by a spurned Glorith. Subsequently, the Reboot Legion would manipulate matters so that a similar crowd to that seen in this issue would apparently be disappointed, and Valor released in secret to ultimately join the Legion as the anonymous "M'Onel". While speculation linked M'Onel to both Valor and Superman, he would never reveal his original identity to the public, although he did briefly readopt his "Valor" costume starting in The Legion #32.

Reprints

This story has not yet been reprinted.

See also

• Announcements
• Previews
• Reviews and Discussion

• Legion Publication History - Other issues published in 1989-1994
• Legion Publication History - Other issues of Legion of Super-Heroes v4
• Glorithverse Chronology
• Quick index of links to other Legion of Super-Heroes v4 issues

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