Legion of Super-Heroes (v5) aka "The Threeboot"

The Legion of Super-Heroes once again returned to their own self-titled series in 2005 with Volume 5 of Legion of Super-Heroes. The series was launched under the creative team of writer Mark Waid and artist Barry Kitson, who together had previously struck gold at DC with their acclaimed run on The Flash. They were tasked with redefining the Legion of Super-Heroes for the 21st Century (31st Century within their book). Mark Waid was no stranger to the Legion, having been the long time editor of the post-Crisis series. Despite a name change to the series with issue #16 to Supergirl and the Legion of Super-heroes, Waid & Kitson remained the main creative team on the book, save for a few fill-in artist issues, through the first 19 issues of the series. With issue #20, the series took on a new format, featuring two new stories an issue. One was by Waid & Kitson, and the other was by writer Tony Bedard and artist Adam DeKraker (who had been the primary fill-in artist for Kitson earlier on in the run). With issue #23 the series would be back to the mostly one story per issue format with Waid and Kitson again at the helm until the conclusion of their great run with issue #30.  With issue #31 Tony Bedard took over as the sole writer of the series where he was joined by artist Dennis Calero in telling "The Quest for Cosmic Boy” story which concluded in issue #36 of Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

It was now late 2007 (cover date 2008) and issue #37 hit the stands in December with another creative team change. The title of the series was also changed back to the original name it was launched under, The Legion of Super-Heroes. The new creative team featured legendary Legion writer Jim Shooter, who had written tales of the heroes from the 30th Century in the pages of Adventure Comics back in the late 1960’s through the late 70’s. He was joined by the young up-and-coming artist Francis Manapul, who after half a decade working on various Image Comics’ titles, made his DC debut on this series. They continued on the series until its conclusion with issue #50, save for a few issues that featured a fill-in artist (#47 pencils by Rick Leonardi, #50 Ramon Bachs).  It would be revealed during The Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds mini-series that the Legion depicted in this Legion of the Super-Heroes series (volume 5) were actually the Legion of Earth Prime, which is the Earth in the DC Multiverse that represents our own world. This is the same Multiverse that was destroyed in Crisis on Infinite Earths, which returned due to the events of Infinite Crisis, as revealed by the weekly series “52” that began in 2006. The other two Legion teams that took part in the Legion of Three Worlds mini-series were the original Pre-Crisis Legion, which made its return to the DCU in "The Lightning Saga" that ran through the pages of Justice League of America and JSA, and the Zero Hour Legion team from Earth-247.


Volume 5 of Legion of Super-Heroes is available in the following collected editions:

Legion of Super-Heroes
Teenage Revolution (HC/TPB)
Collects Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6 Issues #1-6 & Teen Titans/Legion Special #1
Cover by Barry Kitson

Legion of Super-Heroes
Death of a Dream (HC/TPB)
Collects Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6 Issues #7-13
Cover by Barry Kitson

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes

Strange Visitor from Another Century (HC/TPB)
Collects Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6 Issues #14-15 and Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes Issues #16-19
Cover by Barry Kitson

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
Adult Education (HC/TPB)
Collects Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #20-25
Cover by Barry Kitson

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
The Dominator War (HC/TPB)
Collects Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #26-30
Cover by Barry Kitson

Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes
The Quest for Cosmic Boy (HC/TPB)
Collects Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #31-36
Cover by Barry Kitson


Legion of Super-Heroes
Enemy Rising (HC/TPB)
Collects Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6 Issues #37-44
Cover by Francis Manapul & John Livesay


Legion of Super-Heroes 
Enemy Manifest (HC/TPB)
Collects Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 6 Issues #45-50
Cover by Francis Manapul & John Livesay