Legion Publication History/Series/Secret Files

This page is written from the Real World point of view

This page gathers the information from the regular pages of the Legion Publication History pertaining to issues detailing background information of the Legion and the Legionnaires. This includes the 1981 Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes mini-series and several "Secret Files" singles issues

Issues

	Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #1 (publication date October 9, 1980, cover date January 1981) The Past... Seen Darkly
	Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #2 (publication date November 11, 1980, cover date February 1981) R. J. Brande Is Dying!!
	Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes #3 (publication date December 8, 1981, cover date March 1981) Revelation!
	Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files #1 (published November 26, 1997 (one week late); cover date January 1998) (frontispiece) (Also used as LSHv4 #80 cover) P: Alan Davis; I: Mark Farmer; C: Patrick Martin Legionnaires Three (22 pages) W: Tom Peyer (co-plot/script), Tom McCraw (co-plot); P: Jeff Moy; I: W.C. Carani; C: Tom McCraw, Digital Chameleon (separations); L: Pat Brosseau Notes: Contents page gives title as "Secret Origin"; set around the events of Legion of Super-Heroes #0 Interview: Shvaughn Erin (text feature with illustrations) W: Tom Peyer; P&I: W.C. Carani; C: Tom McCraw Guided Tour: Legion Outpost (3 pages) W: Tom McCraw; P: Jeff Moy; I: Phil Moy; C: Tom McCraw Lost Pages: "What did the Legion do for money while they were stranded in the 20th century?" (4 pages) W: Tom Peyer; P: Todd Nauck; I: Lary Stucker; L: Albert DeGuzman; C: Tom McCraw Notes: Set between LSHv4 #86 and #87 Timeline: LSH (text feature, with small reprinted illustrations) W: Tom McCraw Profile Pages (All written and coloured by Tom McCraw, P/I as shown) Cosmic Boy - Lee Moder/Ron Boyd Live Wire - Chris Sprouse/Karl Story Saturn Girl - Jeff Moy/W.C. Carani Triad - Leonard Kirk/Bob Almond Apparition - Paul Pelletier/Drew Geraci Invisible Kid - Dan Jurgens/Norm Rapmund XS - Humberto Ramos/Wayne Faucher Chameleon - Ron Boyd Brainiac 5 - Lee Moder/Ron Boyd Violet - Phil Moy/Ray Kryssing Name change: LeViathan--> Violet (per profile) Spark - Jeff Moy/W.C. Carani Kinetix - Barry Kitson Star Boy - Jason Armstrong/Ron Boyd M'Onel - Mike Collins/Drew Geraci Element Lad - Colleen Doran Gates - Jason Armstrong/Ron Boyd Ultra Boy - Cully Hamner Umbra - Phil Jimenez The Roll Call pinup (endpiece, all postboot characters to that point or nearly so) P&I: Phil Jimenez; C: Tom McCraw
	Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files #2 (published April 7, 1999; cover date June 1999) Unknown Point of Origin W: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA); P: Chuck Wojtkiwicz; I: Dexter Vines; C: Tom McCraw, Digital Chameleon (separations); L: Clem Robins First appearances: Blight (cameo) The Legion Constitution (2 pages, text-only) Adapted from Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes (1988) Interview: United Planets President R.J. Brande (2 pages, text feature with illustrations) W: Tom Peyer; P: Derec Aucoin; I: Dan Davis; C: Tom McCraw A Partial Listing of the United Planets and Affiliated Planets W: Matt Brady & Tom McCraw Profile Pages (All written by Matt Brady and Tom McCraw except where noted, P/I as shown, all coloured by Tom McCraw) Karate Kid - Scott Kolins/Keith Champagne Kid Quantum (Jazmin Cullen) - Jeff Moy/W.C. Carani Pernisius - Greg Luzniak/Mark Pennington Fallen Heroes (2 pages) - Phil Jimenez Sensor - Kilian Plunkett Elements of Disaster - Jeff Moy/Phil Moy Thunder - Matt Haley/Tom Simmons Ferro - Cully Hamner Brainiac 5.1 - Sean Phillips Blight - W: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning; P: Olivier Coipel; I: Andy Lanning Monstress - Dusty Abnell/Norman Lee
	The Legion Secret Files 3003 (published November 19, 2003; cover date January 2004) The Earth Spins presents... (40 pages) W: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA); P: Leonard Kirk; I: Robin Riggs; C: Ronda Pattison of Sno Cone; P,I&C: Tony Harris and Tom Feister; L: Nick J. Napolitano; E: Ivan Cohen and Stephen Wacker