Analysis Notes
| General |
There are a number of Legion references throughout this
series, all apparently to the Silver Age versions of the characters.
For a time during the Silver Age, Legionnaires might pop up in any given
Superman family title almost at random — here is a 20th century
parade, there rescuing a ring Lois Lane dropped done the drain, and over
there in a display of status kept near open windows during lighting storms.
By extension, without knowing much about the individual Legionnaires,
their iconography as part of the superhero mythos may have made it into
the public consciousness, and hence the presence in this story. |
| 9:5 |
The background crowd here has several members dressed in
Legion outfits: Sun Boy, Ferro Lad, and Bouncing Boy. The one in
the cape next to Sun Boy is presumably a Lightning Lad outfit, although
the chest emblem isn’t very visible. |
| 30:3-33:9 |
Again, a Legion-inspired costume. As above, while
there’s a vague implication that this is somehow the spirit of Saturn
Girl inhabiting the little girl, it seems best to attribute it to a cultural
knowledge of the Legionnaires as being from the future. |
| It’s worth noting that they got her boots the right
color. DC kept coloring them yellow for a while there. |
| 31:4 |
If there was supposed to be any implication that this was
the “real” Saturn Girl, Miller blew it here. Predictions?
Imra doesn’t make predictions; Nura (Dream Girl) does. Unless
the intent here was to confuse, this scene failed because of this error. |
47:6
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Ultra Boy’s costume, on a newstainment pundit echoing
the pose of Los Angeles billboard queen Angelyne. |
| Reprints |
This issue was collected as part of the Batman: The
Dark Knight Strikes Again hardcover volume. |
