DC UNIVERSE LEGACIES #4 (OF 10)

Review by: SilverAgeTom

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Written by LEN WEIN
Art by JOSE LUIS GARCIA-LOPEZ and DAVE GIBBONS and JOE KUBERT with SCOTT KOLINS
Cover by JOSE LUIS GARCIA-LOPEZ and DAVE GIBBONS
Variant cover by JOE KUBERT

Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99

This comic has begun to confuse me. During the golden age we went from the 40’s through the 50’s with the JSA and the Seven Soldiers of Victory. It seems that if the Justice League still formed in the 60’s with Batman and Superman that all the silver age heroes would be very old indeed. I’ll have to hold on for the crisis issue. Maybe that will make sense of it. But this is still a solid comic with some great art. Hard to complain about it. Plus the back-up was pretty phenomenal.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 5 - Excellent
 

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  1. Avatar photo Rbigley says:
    August 18, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    I agree, I’m not dissing the production at all, but when it was announced it was suggested that this would be like a new version of the history of DC.

    In a sense you could still give it that template being that these heroes appeared in the 40’s and 60’s. So its like a history of DC’s timeline, not one in continuity. My other question is the back up. It’s always great to see Kubert do Sgt. Rock, but didn’t the Losers die in Crisis? and I thought Rock lived past WWII. He even ran a version of the Suicide Squad.

  2. Glassford says:
    August 19, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    I’m just wondering if they are going to address the timeline in the story or just pretend that the Golden Age and WWII were 30 and 35 years ago.  I guess they could have Crisis explain it or this could be Earth number whatever, but still, why?

    If they hadn’t had the narrator being a street tough in 1941 and also a young cop/ John Jones’s partner / newlywed expecting his first child when Superman shows up, it would have been easy to let the gap between the golden age and the current generations be as long as necessary.  All they would have had to explain was why the surviving Golden Age heroes are still relatively young and vital, and they have plenty of explanations for that already.

    But they do have six more issues, which is plenty of story telling to time…

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