
Legion of Super-Heroes issue 1 (2026) (review)
Writer: Joshua Williamson Artist: Hayden Sherman DC Comics, November 2026 Marvel Comics’ editor-in-chief, the late Jim Shooter, once described it as the only comic he ever paid money to read. The title was only one of two (the other being the best selling New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez) to be upgraded with great fanfare to DC Comics’ innovative Baxter paper format in 1984 (to put that into perspective, even Batman missed out). And Paul Levitz’ and Keith Giffin’s The Great Darkness Saga, published in 1982, featuring every Legion of Super-Heroes character (a monumental effort of scripting) is widely regarded as one of DC Comics’ best superhero epics. The Legion of Super-Heroes has been through some ups and downs since it was established in 1958 (see for example our commentary on the group’s sixtieth anniversary: https://worldcomicbookreview.com/2018/04/11/happy-sixtieth-birthday-legion-of-superheroes/ and our unhappy review of Brian Michael Bendis’ reboot from 2019:











