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Legion of Super Heroes: Life and Death of Ferro Lad Hardcover – March 10, 2009

by Jim Shooter (Author), Curt Swan (Illustrator)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Collecting ADVENTURE COMICS #346, 347, 352-355 and 357! The Legion battles both the Fatal Five and the Sun Eater – and only the ultimate sacrifice can save Ferro Lad's friends!
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  1. Print length
    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Dc Comics
  4. Publication date
    March 10, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    6.99 x 0.59 x 10.46 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1401221939
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1401221935
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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Collecting Adventure Comics #346-347, 352-355 and 357
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Collecting Adventure Comics #346-347, 352-355 and 357
For those of you who like LEGION but didn't get the Legion Archives, or original books, this hard cover collects Adventure Comics #346(One of us is a traitor), #347(The traitor's triumph), #352(The Fatal Five), #353(The doomed legionnaire), #354(The adult legion), #355(The war of the legions), and #357(The Ghost of Ferro Lad). Just got this one today and to me very worth while as it puts all the early(1966-1967) Ferro Lad issues together. I was curious of the modified cover until I saw it on the DC site (picture added to this page). I think I like the newer cover better; just a personal pref. Oh, 5 stars, Very good cover and color transfer, and as expected issue Covers.
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Dr. Kevin M. Derby
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Collection of 60s Comics from Jim Shooter
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012
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Jim Shooter has been one of the leading comics writers for almost five decades and the "Life and Death of Ferro Lad" is from his legendary run on "Legion of Super-Heroes" which he started when he was 13. These comics showcase Shooter's writing skill as he introduces a host of new Legionnaires, including Ferro Lad, and guides them through a few stories. These comics hold up better than many others from the 1960s though there are moments that will have contemporary readers scratching their heads. Still, comics fans in general and Legion fans in particular, will enjoy this collection. There are excellent essays from Shooter and Paul Levitz who also had a fine run as writer of the Legion. The paper quality is a little flimsy but the art holds up fairly well. Recommended--especially if you can get at a good price.
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Dragon57
5.0 out of 5 stars Collecting Adventure Comics #346-347, 352-355 and 357
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2009
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For those of you who like LEGION but didn't get the Legion Archives, or original books, this hard cover collects Adventure Comics #346(One of us is a traitor), #347(The traitor's triumph), #352(The Fatal Five), #353(The doomed legionnaire), #354(The adult legion), #355(The war of the legions), and #357(The Ghost of Ferro Lad). Just got this one today and to me very worth while as it puts all the early(1966-1967) Ferro Lad issues together. I was curious of the modified cover until I saw it on the DC site (picture added to this page). I think I like the newer cover better; just a personal pref. Oh, 5 stars, Very good cover and color transfer, and as expected issue Covers.
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Dragon57
5.0 out of 5 stars Collecting Adventure Comics #346-347, 352-355 and 357
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2009
For those of you who like LEGION but didn't get the Legion Archives, or original books, this hard cover collects Adventure Comics #346(One of us is a traitor), #347(The traitor's triumph), #352(The Fatal Five), #353(The doomed legionnaire), #354(The adult legion), #355(The war of the legions), and #357(The Ghost of Ferro Lad). Just got this one today and to me very worth while as it puts all the early(1966-1967) Ferro Lad issues together. I was curious of the modified cover until I saw it on the DC site (picture added to this page). I think I like the newer cover better; just a personal pref. Oh, 5 stars, Very good cover and color transfer, and as expected issue Covers.
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wiz62richards
5.0 out of 5 stars the life and death of FE
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2017
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FE from the legion of super heroes, silver age great stories, and graphics
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Iron Man
5.0 out of 5 stars Pre-Iron Man character! Great!
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
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I love it and it was exactly what I was looking for!
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Jonathan Stover
5.0 out of 5 stars Iron Lad
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2014
Once upon a time in the 1950's, a group of 30th-century, super-powered teenagers invited the 20th century's Superboy to join their super-team, the Legion of Super-heroes. The rest was history. Future history.

The Legion quickly acquired a relatively vast number of heroes, especially for superhero comics of the time, reaching more than a dozen members by the early 1960's when new-born teams like the Avengers or the Justice League were puttering around with six or seven. Due to their roster size and the future milieu they inhabited, the Legion heroes soon also acquired a rogue's gallery that might have given any other team, teen-aged or adult, pause.

And then...well, and then, a 13-year-old kid decided in the mid-1960's that he could write comic books. So he sent off some stories to the editor of the Legion at DC Comics. And lo and behold, at the age of 14, Jim Shooter became the regular writer of the Legion in 1966. Marvel's surge in popularity among teenagers at the time probably contributed to the hiring decision -- certainly, Shooter's Legion was far and away DC's most Marvel-like book, except actually written by a teenager. Most refreshingly, it offered a surprisingly vulnerable Superboy. The enemies the Legion faced were so powerful that even the Boy of Steel needed help.

This volume collects most of the Legion stories that featured on the characters Shooter created when he first took over the book, Ferro Lad. Like the later Colossus of the X-Men, Ferro Lad could turn into metal when the need arose -- in his case, solid iron that nonetheless remained mobile and super-strong. Perpetually masked because of a facial disfigurement that came along with his mutation (yes, Ferro Lad was a mutant -- one of DC's first so-named, as far as I remember), Ferro Lad fought the good fight for a year before the apocalyptic events that introduced both the members of the Fatal Five (the worst super-criminals of the 30th century) and the Sun-Eater (exactly what it sounds like) to the DC universe.

The depleted Legion's desperate battle against the Sun-Eater is just one of the pleasures of this volume. We also see Earth under siege by the villainous Khund empire, a glimpse into the Legion's future as adults, and a threat to the Legion from what seems to be the ghost of one of its fallen members. Shooter's writing is fun and pulpy and melodramatically epic.

Curt Swan's art is terrific, managing the difficult feat of portraying both the ridiculously over-scaled (the Sun-Eater can engulf entire suns, after all) and the intimate and human. His Legion actually look like teenagers, while the design of the members of the Fatal Five was instantly iconic and endured for decades. Swan was Superman's quintessential artist for decades, but he was also the defining artist for the Legion. No one was ever better than he was in the 1960's on this book.
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Juan Carrillo
5.0 out of 5 stars Heart of gold man of iron
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2014
As a legion fan I am always looking for new graphic novels and this one I was so happy to get for my collection. This took us through Ferro joining the legion to his death with the sun eater and even what happen when his ghost started coming around and what they had to do to get rid of him.
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JM
5.0 out of 5 stars Silver age classic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2016
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Exquisite art from Curt Swan & an all round classic from a simpler time. Why DC don't release more silver/Bronze Age greats is beyond me.
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