The title's final issue, #16, was published in January 2013. The series follows the changing rules of time travel since the events of Flashpoint, where time travel is more difficult. The series replaced 'Adventure Comics' as the second Legion title published by DC Comics as part of The New 52 and focuses on a small group of the original incarnation of Legion of the Super-Heroes (and Earth-247 Legionnaire Gates) as they are stranded in the present-day 21st Century, having failed to stop a shape-shifting terrorist from Rimbor from infecting Earth with a deadly virus. In September 2011, DC Comics launched a new monthly series ( Legion Lost (vol. It is the third instalment in the Abnett and Lanning Legion series, following the events of 'Legion of the Damned' and 'Widening Rifts,' and was succeeded by 'Legion Worlds' and a new series titled 'The Legion.' The series, which ran for 12 issues from 2000 to 2001, was later collected into a hardcover edition in 2011. In keeping with this, the series centers around a specific set of Legionnaires, with each issue told from the perspective of another.

Initially, the 'Legion Lost' series, together with its companion 'Legion Worlds,' was to serve as an entry point for the Legion franchise. The second series was created as part of DC's New 52 relaunch. The first series was a 12-issue comic book limited series co-written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, often collectively referred to and interviewed as 'DnA', penciled primarily by Oliver Coipel, with Pascal Alixe filling in for some issues, inked by Lanning, and colored by Tom McCraw. Legion Lost is the name of two superhero titles published by DC Comics, both starring the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Nova, Vol. 1 by Dan Abnett