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[First Legion of Super-Heroes flag]
image by Eugene Ipavec,
21 February 2010
  [Legion of Super-Heroes]
image by Eugene Ipavec,
22 January 2010

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Introduction

The Legion of Super-Heroes occupies a future (31st-century) setting in the DC comics universe. A recent reboot (Teenage Revolution, vol. 5, #1-6, by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson, December 2005) recasts the Legion in a somewhat political light, as the title suggests; it not only fights supervillains, but acts as an agent of (generally unwelcome) change and idealism in a galactic society that has ossified into a rigid, sterile utopia.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010

More about the comics on Wikipedia.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010


Flags of the Legion of Super-Heroes

Frst flag of the Legion of Super-Heroes

[First Legion of Super-Heroes flag]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

The official flag of the Legion of Super-Heroes can be seen at Comic Treadmill. It's of indestructable material and luminous, so it can be seen for hundreds of miles.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010

The white lines visible in the image are probably not a fringe, but are rather meant to represent the fact that – as the member in that panel says – the flag glows.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010

From the look of that picture (judging from the super-heroes' costumes), the episode of the flag must have been published well before I started to read the comic in the late 1970s. They did however retain that letter L as a sign throughout the years I was reading it, but without any planets or anything around it.
Elias Granqvist, 22 January 2010


Later flags of the Legion of Super-Heroes

[Legion of Super-Heroes]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010

The emblem of the Legion is a an L inscribed in a circle, with a fireball or comet rising diagonally from the L's joint. (Example.)

Several flags of the Legion appear (in what are more-or-less political-party contexts, being flown by the Legion's non-powered followers camped out in front of their HQ on Earth). (Examples, example.) The principal design appears to be: red with the Legion emblem offset toward the hoist.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010


Variants

Several variants of the flag appear.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010

[Legion of Super-Heroes, variant] [Legion of Super-Heroes, variant]
[Legion of Super-Heroes, variant] [Legion of Super-Heroes, variant]

images by Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010


Pennant

[Legion of Super-Heroes, pennant]
image by Eugene Ipavec,
22 January 2010
A blue vertical pennant that a prospective Legion recruit keeps in his bedroom in the prologue has the L reversed.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 January 2010

Sponsor design

A funny interlude has the Legion's leader pay a visit to the very rich girl with no powers who funds the entire Legion out of her trust fund to annoy her parents. While he is there, she asks him whether the redesign of the Legion's flag she had suggested has been implemented yet; the leader has to sheepishly admit that they cannot decide which picture of her to use.
Eugene Ipavec, 25 January 2010


Jungle King

[Jungle King]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

This flag, which can be seen at Comic Treadmill, belongs to a supervillain called "Jungle King." It's a quartered flag, green-red-yellow-blue, with the black-and-white head of a different cranky-looking animal in profile in each one – some kind of bird, a hippopotamus, a theropod dinosaur and something like a moa with eyestalks? Trippy.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010, and Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


Unnamed «many civilizations»

Various flags of galaxies and universes are shown halfmasted at Comic Threadmill.
Aleksandar Nemet, 22 January 2010

The caption identifies these as flags of civilizations throughout a dozen galaxies and far-flung island universes, lowered in mourning when the Legion member Lighting Lad is killed in action. They're rather nice designs, too, generally speaking.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Blue, with two white circles on either side of a black-outline Art-Deco rocketship.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Green pennant with white-ringed red planet.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Yellow with ringed large black star.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Red/black swallowtail, each half charged with one large and one small yellow disc.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Black, large red star, shifted toward hoist and surrounded by circle of seven small yellow stars.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Red, large 33-pointed white star with green disc in center (I assume foreshortened in the image, rather than an oval)
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Orange, green design in uper hoist made of concentric offset rings – meant to represent a wormhole? – plus a Rutherford atom in black in the lower hoist.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010


[Many civilizations]
image by Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010

Yellow, outlined black a circle with two triangles, one on either side.
Eugene Ipavec, 21 February 2010