American Update: All-New Collectors’ Edition #C55 – scarce Legion of Super-Heroes Wedding Issue
*DC: Following the success of their Limited Collectors’ Edition tabloid series in the 1970s, DC branched out into non-reprint editions, which were rebranded All-New Collectors’ Edition – though, confusingly, they kept the same numbering sequence. One of the most sought-after issues – and by a long way the most contentious – was issue #C55, which featured an all-new tale of the Legion of Super-Heroes, at that time one of DC’s strongest-selling series. Featuring the wedding of two founding Legionnaires, Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, this was completely undistributed in the UK and not commonplace in the US, with the result that rabid completist Legion fans (yes, like us!) had to have it, and sought it out regardless of expense or effort, despite the fact that, frankly, the expanded page size did the Grell & Colletta ‘artwork’ no favours whatsoever. Didn’t matter to the diehard Legion folks – and still doesn’t, decades later, as every copy to come through our hands has vanished as if abducted by the Time Trapper! This copy is an outstanding VF+ at £40 SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD