List of Lethal Legion members
The Lethal Legion is a team of fictional characters that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
The first version of the Legion appears in The Avengers #78 (Jul. 1970); the second version in Avengers #164 (Oct. 1977); the third version in West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #1 (Oct. 1985); the fourth Avengers West Coast #98 (Sep. 1993) and the final version in the limited series Dark Reign: Lethal Legion #1 (Aug. 2009). The teams were created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema; Jim Shooter and various artists; Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom; Roy Thomas and Tim Dzon; and Frank Tieri and various artists respectively.
Membership
listed alphabetically, after leader
Lethal Legion I
The Avengers #78 - 79 (Jul. - Aug. 1970)
- Grim Reaper - Madman with a hand replaced by a scythe that harbours powerful technology
- Living Laser - An inventor of highly advanced lasers
- Man-Ape - One of Wakanda's greatest warriors who performed a forbidden ritual gave him superhuman strength
- Power Man (Erik Josten) - Gained superhuman strength and durability due to an ionic ray
- Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne) - A master swordsman with different weapons in his sword
Lethal Legion II
Avengers #164 - 166 (Oct. - Dec. 1977)
- Count Nefaria - A crime lord and one of the world's wealthiest men
- Living Laser
- Power Man (Josten)
- Whirlwind - A mutant who can rotate his body at superhuman speed
Lethal Legion III
West Coast Avengers vol. 2, #1 - 2 (Oct. - Nov. 1985)
- Grim Reaper -
- Black Talon - A voodoo sorcerer who can create and control zombies
- Goliath (Erik Josten) - Power Man, who can grow up to 60 ft
- Man-Ape -
- Nekra - A death-spirit
- Ultron - A powerful and intelligent robot
Lethal Legion IV
Marvel Age Annual #1 (1985)
- Attuma - An Atlantean Barbarian
- Batroc the Leaper - A skilled French combatant
- Beetle - An engineer who invented a battlesuit that enables flight and has other functions
- Black Tiger -
- Kurr'fri - A member of the Saurians that Ms. Marvel had encountered.
- Gorilla-Man II -
- Piledriver -
- Porcupine - A criminal with a battle suit based on a porcupine
- Sabretooth - A beast-like mutant
- Thundra - A super-strong woman
- Trapster - A criminal skilled with adhesives
- Unicorn -
- Whirlwind -
- Wrecker - A criminal with an enchanted crowbar giving him superhuman strength
Lethal Legion V
Avengers West Coast #98 - 100 (Sep. - Nov. 1993)
- Hangman (Jason Roland)
- Axe of Violence - A demonically-enhanced Lizzie Borden with an axe replacing one hand.
- Coldsteel - A demonically-enhanced Josef Stalin now an 8 ft. giant with superhuman strength.
- Cyana - A demonically-enhanced Lucrezia Borgia with poisoned claws.
- Zyklon - A demonically-enhanced Heinrich Himmler who can belch deadly gas fumes from his mouth.
Lethal Legion VI
Dark Reign: Lethal Legion #1 - 3 (June - Aug. 2009)
- Grim Reaper -
- Nekra -
- Absorbing Man - A thug who was given a potion enabling him to absorb the properties of whatever he touched.
- Grey Gargoyle - A French Chemist who can turn people to stone for an hour by touching them.
- Tiger Shark - A criminal with the DNA of a shark.
- Mister Hyde - A scientist who developed a formula that gives him superhuman strength.
- Wonder Man - Given superhuman strength and durability by ionic ray.