If I'm doing my math right， one more volume of this series will bring me up to the point where my collection of the comics begins。 I had a lot of the early _Adventure Comics_ issues， back in the day， but， as with so many other kids of my generation， My Mother Made Me Throw Them Out， along with lots of other stuff that， taken together， would have paid my kids' tuition， at least for a year or two。Anyway， we have here a silly-feelgood story from a DC Christmas Special， followed by a bunch of regula If I'm doing my math right， one more volume of this series will bring me up to the point where my collection of the comics begins。 I had a lot of the early _Adventure Comics_ issues， back in the day， but， as with so many other kids of my generation， My Mother Made Me Throw Them Out， along with lots of other stuff that， taken together， would have paid my kids' tuition， at least for a year or two。Anyway， we have here a silly-feelgood story from a DC Christmas Special， followed by a bunch of regular stories by Gerry Conway or Roy Thomas。 Near the end， Paul Levitz （my favorite Legion writer） comes back as scripter。One of the things that this volume makes clear is that the era of the Legion as soap-opera was now in full swing。 Love， loss， lust， amnesia， missing persons， accusations of murder all contribute to a dozen stories， plus the Christmas issue and a framing tale from a DC Comics Digest， of。。。well， moderate to good quality。 There is nothing here that I would call "great"; the last great era of the Legion was a year or so out， to begin with the Legion's first-ever Annual and the "Great Darkness Saga" that informs the title of this batch of archive volumes。Similarly， the artwork by a whole bunch of people， including Steve Ditko， Carmine Infantion， and Dick Giordano， is never less than workmanlike， but rarely rises above it， and when it does， it's mostly Ditko doing the stuff he'd learned at Marvel when he was illustrating _Doctor Strange_。Necesssary for me， and for other Legion completists who missed these issues the first time around。 Probably not so much for anyone else。 。。。more