League of Super-Assassins

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The League of Super-Assassins is a team of fictional DC Comics villains that fought against the Legion of Super-Heroes. [1]

DC Comics U.S. comic book publisher

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies. The majority of its publications take place within the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous culturally iconic heroic characters, most notably Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, among many others. The universe also features well-known supervillains such as Lex Luthor, the Joker, Catwoman, and the Penguin. The company has published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo.

Legion of Super-Heroes Fictional characters

The Legion of Super-Heroes is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics Universe, and first appears in Adventure Comics #247.

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History

Members of this group of super powered beings came from the planet Dryad. Tricked into thinking that the Legion of Super-Heroes were somehow connected to the destruction of their planet they set out to destroy the Legion. Controlling them was the "Dark Man" which was actually a clone of Tharok, the evil genius of the Fatal Five. The "Dark Man" subjected the youths to experiments giving them super powers.

Tharok is a DC Comics supervillain and an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes. He is the leader of the Fatal Five. Tharok and the Fatal Five were introduced in Adventure Comics #352, and were created by Jim Shooter.

Fatal Five

The Fatal Five are fictional characters, a supervillain team of the 30th century in the DC Comics universe. They were created by Jim Shooter and first appeared in Adventure Comics #352 (1967) as enemies of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

While Blok defected to the Legion of Super-Heroes, many of the other members were either released from prison or escaped and joined the Legion of Super-Villains, starting with Legion of Super-Heroes (Baxter) issues 1-5.

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Members

Blok (comics) Fictional character in the DC Comics universe

Blok is a fictional character, a superhero in the 30th century of the DC Comics universe. He has a massive, stony body possessed of incredible strength and endurance.

Superboy fictional character in the DC Comics pantheon

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Metron (comics) DC Comics character

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Trivia

Although some fans have speculated that the League of Super-Assassins were originally created as rough analogies for the membership of Marvel Comics' X-Men lineup at the time, by mutual agreement between the separate books' writers to have an inter-company crossover by proxy, this is unsupported by any evidence. The Shi'ar Imperial Guard was an homage to the Legion of Super-Heroes which appeared in X-Men #107 (cover-dated October 1977); at the time, there was an informal agreement between the respective writers of the two comics that the Legion might feature characters homaging the X-Men, but this did not take place. The League of Super-Assassins did not appear until Superboy and the Legion Of Super-Heroes #253, cover-dated July 1979, and written by Gerry Conway, who had not been writing the comic in 1977.

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References

  1. Jeff Rovin (1987), The Encyclopedia of Super Villains, Facts on File, p. 395, ISBN   9780816013562