What I didn't like about the Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant I did like about this Legends of the DCU 80-pager, the use of more obscure characters. While all the Adventure stories featured characters with currently running series (Bizarro the exception), Chronos is the only one in this that currently has a title. Used as a framing sequence, Chronos has a run in with a strange energy being while trying to steal an mystic artifact. This energy being shows Walker Gabriel heroes of both the past and future, hoping to provide the least bit of inspiration for him. A character changing, but slow story by John Francis Moore, Paul Guinan, and Danni Miki.
Bill Mumy (of Lost in Space and Babylon 5) and Peter David do James Cameron as the Spectre helps a Titanic survivor resolve her nightmares about her dead twin sister. Great art by Mr. Classic, Steve Ditko and Mr. Knowlan, Kevin Knowlan.
James Robinson, Dave Gibbons, and Sal Buscema provide a fun but hokey Doom Patrol story set early in their career as weirdness hunters. Rita Farr returns to Hollywood, only to be reminded of why she left, and of course, there's the aliens.
A great "classic" Hawkman and Hawkwoman story have the Thanagarians confronting Man-hawks and the birds of Midway City. Solid storytelling by Andy Helfer and Bob McLeod, one of the best retro stories I have read, as it captures the full feel of the old Hawkman stories.
Steven N. Grant, Mike Zeck and James Pascoe tell an incredly cool Adam Strange story in which Adam manages to catch his Zeta Beam back to Rann, but a volcano eruption causes him to become a phantom. It couldn't be a worse time, because Darkseid's minions are attacking the planet, and without Strange, their champion, there's little hope for the Rannians.
What should have been the best story surprisingly disappoints, as George Perez and Marv Wolfman tell how Raven formed the New Teen Titans of the '80's, with art by Phil Jiminez and Romeo Thangal
The final story, starring the Linear Men, is high on adventure but low on goodness, as Dan Jurgen's script is rather cheesy, and the art by Todd Nauck and Art Thibert is rather muddled.
Although not quite as good as it could have been, the Legends of the DCU 80-Page Giant is the best 80-page offering next to the JLA 80-Pager. Not quite worth the bucks, but very very close.