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Legionnaires #0 Reboot » Post-Zero Hour Cover, art by Jeff Moy, et al. Story title Close Encounters Previous story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #0 Next story Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #62 Publication date 30 August, 1994 Cover date October 1994 Creators Writer(s) Mark Waid (co-plot) Tom McCraw (co-plot & script) Penciller(s) Jeff Moy Inker(s) Ron Boyd Letterer(s) Pat Brosseau Colourist(s) Tom McCraw Editor(s) K.C. Carlson Mike McAvennie (assistant) Cover artist(s) Jeff Moy (pencils) Karl Story (inks) Tom McCraw (colours)

The newly-founded Legion faces the public for the first time

Close Encounters

Synopsis

Garth Ranzz, Imra Ardeen and Rokk Krinn watch promotional material billing them, respectively, as Live Wire, Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy, the Legion of Super-Heroes. R.J. Brande's assistant Marla Latham then delivers their uniforms, which they would wear to the next meeting of the United Planets council. Elsewhere, Roderick Doyle plots to plant a bomb at the Council meeting, destroying Brande, the Legion, and any realistic hope for interplanetary cooperation.

Later, Tinya Wazzo delivers some documents to her mother, a U. P. delegate, using her inborn powers to walk through the U. P. symbol globe as a shortcut and noticing that an extra ball with wires is on the globe, angering Ambassador Wazzo. U. P. President Chu introduces the Legion to the other delegates, and the delegates resist the idea of endowing teenagers with police powers and diplomatic status. While the delegates are debating the matter of approving the Legion, Saturn Girl discovers tension in the room, and scans the mind of all present, discovering Tinya's knowledge of a bomb hidden on the U. P. globe. She accidentally lets this fact slip from her mouth, creating a panic in the room, until Cosmic Boy and Live Wire get the bomb out of the council chamber, allowing it to explode harmlessly. This act causes debris to fall in the room, and R. J. Brande's assistant Luornu Durgo, using her inborn powwer to split into three people, saves Brande and the president from falling debris.

The Legionnaires then chase after the bombers, who Saturn Girl identifies by their thoughts. The two bombers have split up and hidden, but some help from Tinya reveals the location of one of them, enabling the Legion to capture them. The Legionnaires then search nearby buildings for the second one, and Tinya saves the Legion from that one as well, who was about to shoot Live Wire and Saturn Girl. The following day, the Legion, with Tinya and Luornu as new members, using the code names Apparition and Triad, is introduced to a crowd as the U. P.'s new representatives. Brande and the President then discuss the Legion's future, and the President decides to send the Legion on a high-profile mission so the Legion and the U. P. will be noticed.

She sends notices to the governments of six planets, which in turn inform young beings that they have been drafted to serve as their planet's representative in the Legion. One of these youths, Querl Dox, is busy with other things and ignores the message.

Roll Call

Legionnaires

• Cosmic Boy
• Saturn Girl
• Live Wire
• Triad [Joins]
• Apparition [First Appearance, Joins]

Villains

• White Triangle
  • Roderick Doyle

Supporting characters

• René Jacques "R.J." Brande
• Marla Latham
• Winema Wazzo, Bgztl Ambassador to the United Planets
• U.P. President Jeanne Chu

Other characters

• Gim Allon
• Atmos
• S.P. Officer Gigi Cusimano
• Reep Daggle
• Obin Der, Daxam Ambassador to the United Planets
• Querl Dox
• Kid Quantum (James Cullen)
• Lyle Norg
• Star Boy
• Rond Vidar
• XS

Planets and Settings

• Earth (30th century)
  • Metropolis
    • Brande Industries
      • R.J. Brande’s office
      • Roderick Doyle’s office
    • United Planets headquarters
      • United Planets Council Chamber
      • President Chu’s office
    • Suicide Slum
  • Unknown city
    • Lyle Norg’s apartment

• Mars
  • Forte District
    • Science Police Headquarters

• Xanthu (and a moon)
  • Unnamed stadium

• Aarok
  • Speed Force research station

• Durla (and a moon)

• Talus
  • Time Institute's Training Center

Notes

• Mirroring real-life, Garth Ranzz was apparently going to be called "Lightning Lad," the name originally associated with his character, but it was felt "Live Wire" was a fresher name.

First appearances

This issue contains the first post-Zero Hour appearances of Legionnaires Apparition, Leviathan, Kid Quantum (James), Chameleon, Invisible Kid and Brainiac 5, as well as the first appearance of XS.

Solicitation

LEGIONNAIRES #0

McCraw/Waid/Moy/Boyd/C[over]-Moy

The fledgling Legion of Super-Heroes recruits its first new members and gets in way over it's head during their first official mission. While investigating the assassination attempt on their mentor, R.J. Brande, the Legionnaires fall into the hands of a new super-villain, leading to the team's first casualty.

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Reprints

This Legion story has been reprinted in the following:

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  Legion of Super-Heroes: The Beginning of Tomorrow TPB

See also

• Legion Publication History - Other issues published (late) 1994-1996
• Legion Publication History - Other issues of Legionnaires
• Post-Zero Hour chronology