This is "Look Back," a brand-new feature that I plan to do for at least all of 2019 and possibly beyond that (and possibly forget about in a week, who knows?). The concept is that every week (I'll probably be skipping the four fifth weeks in the year, but maybe not) of a month, I will spotlight a single issue of a comic book that came out in the past and talk about that issue in terms of a larger scale (like the series overall, etc.). Each week will be a look at a comic book from a different year that came out the same month X amount of years ago. The first week of the month looks at a book that came out this month ten years ago. The second week looks at a book that came out this month 25 years ago. The third week looks at a book that came out this month 50 years ago. The fourth week looks at a book that came out this month 75 years ago.

Today, we look at Image Comics' "Legends of Tomorrow" publishing event from March 1994.

The concept of the event was a simple one. Any Image Studio that wanted to participate would do a 25th issue for a series that was then only in single digits and then the idea would be to tie that 25th issue in so that it felt as if it was a regular issue of the series once the series caught up to it.

Sadly, in the cases of Bloodstrike and Brigade, both of those books were canceled BEFORE they reached #25, so there was never a chance to catch up (and honestly, it really didn't seem like it was going to happen anyways either way)...

In the case of Supreme #25 (check out that Stephen Platt cover! Wow!)....

The book eventually did catch up, but it was handled in a sort of "Hey, we all know this isn't going to actually match up, so let's just sort of hang a lantern on it and then move past it," which was a fair enough solution for the situation that they were in.

That left us with the one book that really DID tie-in perfectly, which was Stormwatch #25, which involved some rather dramatic revelations...

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The set-up of the issue (written by Steve Seagle and drawn by Scott Clark and Trevor Scott) is that Jackson King, Battalion of the Stormwatch (a United Nations authorized superhero team) has been sent one year into the future, a future in which he is dead...

He learns that the new leader of the team is Spartan of the WildCATS...

and that his girlfriend, Christine, is the new Weatherman (the person who oversees Stormwatch)...

Plus his second-in-command, the Italian hero known as Diva, is now dead and being used like a puppet by Jackson's villainous father...

Before Jackson's father can kill him, Jackson is sent back in time, but then a mystery man blasts the villain...

We then learn that part two will come out in July 1995.

That was a bold call for Image at the time, since they were often late with books, but Wildstorm busted their tails and Stormwatch #26 DID come out in July 1995 (well, cover-dated). Ron Marz did a wonderful job shepherding the comic book to make it all fit before Stormwatch #26 followed with H.K. Proger, Renato Arlem and Robert Jones revealing that the mystery shooter was Batallion, who, of course, faked his death so that he could train himself to be powerful enough to defeat his own father...

I am shocked by how well Wildstorm pulled it off (but yes, it would have been nice if the opening of #26 better fit the end of #25. We don't actually really get to see the blast happen).

If you have any suggestions for March (or any other later months) 2009, 1994, 1969 and 1944 comic books for me to spotlight, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com! Here is the guide, though, for the cover dates of books so that you can make suggestions for books that actually came out in the correct month. For the 75 and 50 year old comics, the cover date is three months ahead of the actual release date (so June for a book that came out in March) while the 25 and 10 year old comics have a cover date that is two months ahead of the actual release date (so May for a book that came out in March). Obviously, it is easier to tell when a book from 10 years ago was released, since there was internet coverage of books back then.