The Legion of Super-Heroes is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino, the Legion is a group of superpowered beings living in the 30th and 31st centuries of the DC Comics Universe, and first appears in Adventure Comics #247 (April 1958).
I've seen the Marvel 7-Eleven Slurpee cups floating around. But didn't realize they made them for the Legion of Super-Heroes until they were mentioned in the letters page in Superboy Starring the Legion of Super-Heroes #207 released December 24, 1974. I managed to grab all six of them (I think there are only six).
They're pretty cool and include a little bio for each character also specifying which were the charter members.
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Wow! That is an incredible find! Congratulations!
Thank you! I was quite lucky that the guy had all six of them in pretty good condition.
I had never seen these before and now I NEED them. NEED.
Wow. Never knew.
With Dave Cockrum art no less. I really need a set.
I was wondering about that, it’s his designs so it must be his art right?
Yep! Those are the poses he drew for the coloring guides he created after Chameleon Boy and Matter-Eater Lad were colored wrong in Superboy 193.
https://www.thelegionofsuper-heroes.com/Pub%20style%20-%20cockrum%20costumes.html
Amazing! I wasn’t aware of this at all!
I'm mildly obsessed with Cockrum's run on the Legion. I found a chart of the colors and used them to have a swing at coloring a B&W LSH piece he drew for a portfolio. I posted it here a while back.
I had the Mon-el cup when I was a kid, and I would just STARE at it. Recently acquired another and still stare at it from time to time
I didn't even know these existed. I MUST have them!
In all seriousness, I've been a legion fan for at least 45 year, and I've never heard of these. Of course, there were no 7-11's where I grew up, so it is probably better that I didn't. I would have been upset that I could not collect them.
I was also surprised! It’s interesting because they didn’t have a movie, cartoon or TV Series so the series must have been very popular.
I was a kid when these first came out, and I was also a regular 7-11 customer. You could be excused for thinking I amassed a nice collection of these back in the day. The sad fact is, you did not get to choose your own cup. Me, I went through about two dozen Slurpees and got handed a Perry White cup every single damn time.
OK, maybe once I got a Martha Kent, but that would have been the outer limits of excitement for me.
Interesting I didn’t know you couldn’t choose your own cup! So it was basically you got what you got like a happy meal toy?