Legion of Super-heroes - the Silver Age Omnibus 2

The early adventures of the 30th-century team of super-teens, the Legion of Super-Heroes, are collected in a new hardcover edition.

This second omnibus hardcover collecting the Legion of Super-Heroes from the mid-1960s features the tales that established this futuristic super-team as one of the most enduring and appealing in comics.

These stories begin as the Legion runs into trouble when it rejects a new applicant: Bizarro-Superboy, the comically imperfect duplicate of the Teen of Steel. The team also faces the menaces of Lightning Lord, the Time Trapper, Computo and more! Also, two of the Legion's founders, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, get married, and the team must escape the Super Stalag of Space.

Collects ADVENTURE COMICS #329-360 and SUPERBOY #124-125.

Edmond Hamilton came to comics from science fiction pulp magazines, for which he was the creator of grand space operas such as "The Star Kings" and classic short stories like the intense, introspective "What's It Like Out There?" He created Captain Future for pulp editor Mort Weisinger in 1939, and upon moving to DC Comics in 1941, Weisinger offered Hamilton work on comics scripts. Hamilton quickly became a major Superman writer. In addition, he wrote Tommy Tomorrow features for ACTION COMICS and classic stories for DC editor Julius Schwartz's science fiction comics. In 1952, Hamilton teamed Superman and Batman in "The Mightiest Team in the World" (SUPERMAN #76), a story he conceived as a minor one-shot adventure. Editor Jack Schiff soon made the Superman-Batman team a regular feature in WORLD'S FINEST, where Hamilton wrote the majority of stories until 1966. In other Batman, Superman and Legion of Super-Heroes stories, Hamilton introduced such memorable characters as Batwoman, the Composite Superman, Element Lad, Dream Girl, Timber Wolf and Brainiac 5.
Hamilton retired from comics in 1966 and lived with his wife, Leigh Brackett (a science fiction novelist and screenwriter whose credits include The Big Sleep and The Empire Strikes Back), until his death in 1977.