Chris Osman

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #214

    After a two issue, three month absence, Cary Bates is back baby! And he seems to be molding quite comfortably into what Jim Shooter is stepping on.

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #213

    We have our second consecutive issue where Jim Shooter does both stories. Is this goodbye to Cary Bates? Hard to say because he’s still getting mentioned in Super-Talk so I guess we’ll have to wait until next issue. But regardless…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #212

    After two pretty intense outings, Jim Shooter returns to deliver two yarns in the ‘classic way;’ Last Fight for Legionnaire and Death Stroke for Dawn. But it isn’t without consequences because by the end of one story the Legion may…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #211

    Welcome back fellow applicants to the Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes blog! We’re still in the “Starring” era but Jim Shooter is well on his way in writing his name in stone alongside Cary Bates as being one of…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #210

    Welcome back fellow Legionnaires! We continue with the reign of Jim Shooter who provides us not one, but two tales in the Legion of Super-Heroes both illustrated by Mike Grell.

  • Interlude – I

    I’m officially one-fourth of the year in and I’m quite surprised albeit pleased with myself. I managed to hold the schedule steady and consistently post, every week, my thoughts on an issue of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Or…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #209

    Jim Shooter is back! And what a surprise too as this one came pretty much out of left field. I knew he would make an appearance at one point in the series but I at least expected some sort of…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #208

    I guess Murray Boltinoff and DC decided to take away the punch bowl. Because this time around we do not have a 100-page spectacular for sixty cents, but simply a “Superboy Giant” priced at fifty cents. I chalked this one…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #207

    Dear all, I would like to take this moment and ask all of you to please take a moment of silence for the death of the Silver-Age sized comic book. It appears that the paper crunch has taken its toll,…

  • Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #206

    Well, it looks like the paper crunch is taking its tole because we have our first twenty-five cent issue. A whole quarter! Plus we have two stories by Cary Bates and Mike Grell, with the first one being more or…

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