In March 1986 DC Comics would change the course of the comic
book medium and superhero genre forever in the conclusion to their major event
comic Crisis On Infinite Earths. The conclusion featured the first ever
universe reboot and a line wide relaunch, essentially allowing the company to
start over from scratch after nearly 20 years of continuity. It was a risky move in a long history
of risky moves DC had been making throughout the late Silver Age such as launching
numerous non-superhero comics, selling their merchandising rights to Kenner
toys, and launching the Superman movie.
The revival was a major success but with it came new issues,
mainly based around establishing the comic universe’s new status quo and where
a lot of characters from the previous era stood now that everything had
reverted back to square zero. So,
in November of 1986 DC launched a special 6-issue mini-series entitled Legends written by John Ostrander and
Len Wein with artwork by John Byrne, let’s take a look.
