Marvel Comics Trademarks Lethal Legion For Wonder Man?

So sooner have we information about Marvel’s upcoming TV sequence Wonder Man casting Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams than Marvel Comics trademark the phrases “Lethal Legion”. Well, they cannot trademark “Wonder Man” I suppose. Marvel Characters has trademarked the phrase for “Printed comic books; printed periodicals in the field of comic book stories and artwork; printed posters” which suggests they’ve a Lethal Legion comedian e book to be printed forward of the Wonder Man TV sequence, and closely means that the Lethal Legion will likely be part of it.

There have been numerous variations of the supervillain workforce Lethal Legion in Marvel’s historical past and Wonder Man has been related to numerous them in numerous methods. Created by Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Tom Palmer within the seventies for the Avengers comedian e book. the unique Lethal Legion was shaped by the villain Grim Reaper, the brother of Wonder Man. It additionally included Man-Ape, Power Man, Living Laser, and Swordsman.  The Grim Reaper shaped a 3rd model in West Coast Avengers, wherein Ultron-12 states he had his personal plans for Wonder Man. In the Rob Liefeld pocket universe of Heroes Reborn, Wonder Man was drafted into the Lethal Legion by the Enchantress and despatched to Avengers Mansion to distract them lengthy sufficient to go away them susceptible to the remainder of the Lethal Legion. The Dark Reign model of  the Lethal Legion noticed the Grim Reaper, joined by Wonder Man, recruiting villains to oppose former Green Goblin, Norman Osborn.

Which model of the Lethal Legion will likely be referred to, referenced, revived, relaunches or rebooted, we have now but to see. But trying which names and phrases the comedian e book aspect of Marvel Comics chooses to trademark does give clues as to their publishing plans, and particularly plans making an attempt to attach synergy with regardless of the TV and film aspect of the corporate has.