Legends #5

Type: comic book / magazine
Publisher: DC Comics
Cover Date: Mar 1987
Cover Price: $0.75
cover by John Byrne

Contents

“Let Slip the Dogs of War!” -- 22 pages

  • script by Len Wein
  • story by John Ostrander
  • pencils by John Byrne
  • inks by Karl Kesel
  • Billy Batson becomes Captain Marvel again (for the first time since Legends #1) and immediately realizes (with Captain Marvel’s brain) that he’s been had
  • Dr. Fate puts together a team (Captain Marvel, Black Canary, Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Batman, Flash, and Changeling) and confronts G. Gordon Godfrey, who’s leading a near-revolution in Washington, D.C.
  • on the final page, Robin (Jason Todd) leaves the hospital

Additional Images


Page 15 of Legends #5 (Mar 1987), on which Dr. Fate recruits Superman (who’s speaking to President Ronald Reagan)


G. Gordon Godfrey seems ready to start a revolution. Page 19 of Legends #5 (Mar 1987).


See It in Context on the Continuity Pages:

Legends #1New Gods: Legends (1986)

by Julian Darius | in The Continuity Pages | complete as of 7 June 2013

Legends was a follow-up to Crisis on Infinite Earths, which had eliminated DC’s system of multiple universes and replaced it with a single one with a new timeline. Written by John Ostrander and Len Wein,… [more]


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