Analysis Notes
| General |
Only pages 16:3, 17, 18:1, 18:5, 21:1, and 22:8 are dealt with here. |
| 16:3 |
Note that these are the members of Team 20 (sans Brainy, Koko, Shvaughn, and Inferno), the Legionnaires with whom Ferro is most familiar. |
| 17 |
The characters seen here are (left-to-right, top-to-bottom): Brainiac 5, Argent, Saturn Girl, Captain Atom, Sentinel, Supergirl, Mister Miracle, Captain Marvel (Billy Batson), Cosmic Boy, Steel, Superboy, Lobo, Captain Marvel (Mary Batson), Atom, Aztek, Thunderhead, Aquaman, Junior, Impulse, Plastic Man, Cascade, Power Girl, Green Lantern, Starman, Firestorm, Ultra Boy, and Ferro. The boot to the left side of the page is unidentifiable. |
| Coloring errors: Aztec is directly below Steel’s right hand. Ultra Boy’s chest emblem is gold instead of green, his hair is dark gray, and he has inexplicably been given a moustache. |
| 18:1 |
The characters seen here are (left-to-right): Green Lantern, Sentinel, Spark, Power Girl, Firestorm, and Captain Atom. The background characters and the boots at the top of the panel are unidentifiable. |
| Coloring errors: Spark is miscolored; she is using her gravity powers. Firestorm is in the upper-right, colored like Red Tornado. Argent is below him. Captain Atom is below her, colored like Geo-Force. |
| 18:5 |
The characters seen here are (left-to-right): Lobo, Cosmic Boy, Starman VII, Ultra Boy, Cascade, Firestorm, Power Girl, Reflex, Impulse. |
| 21:1 |
Bodies in the pile include Captain Marvel (arm; the upper arm should be red), Cosmic Boy (top), Sentinel (top), Impulse (left), Saturn Girl (left), Reflex (center), Argent (center, below Reflex), Firestorm (bottom), and Ferro (right); Plastic Man hangs on the building. Other bodies are unidentifiable. |
| 21:4 |
Giffen is drawn in a style aping his own, seen prominently in Legion of Super-Heroes v4. Giffen is also the co-creator of Lobo. |
| 22:8 |
Given that this shared dream involved Ferro and numerous 20th century heroes, it is assumed to occur while Team 20 is still in the 20th century. (That Ferro’s clock uses Arabic numerals rather than Interlac ones is not proof, though, since Arabic numerals are still sometimes seen in the 30th century, and would be especially apt to be seen on devices used by a 20th century transplant.) We will tag this story as occurring after Genesis, between Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #97 and Superboy v3 #45. |
| 22:9 |
Aquaman’s comment is a reference to Welsh Rarebit, a bread and cheese concoction known to induce peculiar dreams in some people. It was immortalized in the Winsor McCay strip Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend. |
