This is a chronological list, by publication date, of story arcs in writer Mark Millar's American superhero comic book series Jupiter's Legacy, and its spinoff miniseries, Jupiter's Circle. The first, five-issue volume of Jupiter's Legacy premiered in April 2013, and was published monthly by Image Comics, albeit with some delays. The first, six-issue volume of the spinoff Jupiter's Circle was published in April 2015, and the first issue of that spinoff's second volume was published in November 2015.
Jupiter's Legacy Volume 1 Issue # Release date Variant cover artists 1 April 24, 2013 Frank Quitely (sketch cover), J. Scott Campbell (Midtown Comics exclusive), Christian Ward, Bryan Hitch, Dave Johnson, Phil Noto, Mike Allred (second printing) In 1932, Sheldon Sampson, a patriotic American who lost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, is driven to charter a boat to a mysterious island west of Cape Verde that appeared to him in a dream. Believing that the island holds gifts that will mean salvation for a country needing heroes, he journeys there with five other people, including his brother Walter, his fiancée, Grace, and some old friends from college. What they find there turns them into the first six original superheroes, and the originators of a dynasty of superheroes that tries to use their superhuman abilities to help others. Decades later in 2013, conflict develops between Walter, who believes that they should take a more direct approach to end the Great Recession and tell President Barack Obama what he should be doing in his second term, and Sheldon, who is adamant that superheroes' moral responsibility is to obey the country's elected leaders. Sheldon and Grace, who are now married, are also troubled by their children Brandon and Chloe, who have inherited powers of their own, but instead of following in their parents' footsteps as heroes, lead lives of celebrity endorsement deals, superhero groupies and drugs, which leads to an overdose on Chloe's part. 2 June 26, 2013 Bryan Hitch, Jock, Amy Reeder (Midtown Comics Exclusive)After a botched attempt by a drunken Brandon to use his powers to help others nearly ends in catastrophe, Sheldon intervenes and excoriates his son for his irresponsibility, dismissing the humiliated Brandon as a shallow celebrity. Meanwhile, Chloe survives her overdose but learns that she is pregnant and tells her drug trafficker boyfriend Hutch, who is both the child's father and the son of the world's greatest supervillain, that she will move back into her parents' Encino, Los Angeles home for a few months on the advice of her addiction counselor. After Sheldon forbids Walter from presenting his economic ideas to the President's cabinet, Walter approaches Brandon and convinces him to help him depose Sheldon as the leader of the superheroes. 3 August 28, 2013 Bryan Hitch, Sean PhillipsSheldon orders Hutch to stay away from Chloe, informing him that he and Grace will not allow a drug trafficker to raise their grandchild. When Hutch offers to end his criminal life and pursue a legitimate one, a skeptical Sheldon says he once made the mistake of trusting Hutch's father, which ended in disaster. Walter and Brandon lead the other superheroes in an attack upon Sheldon and Grace, murdering them and prompting Chloe and Hutch to become fugitives. 4 January 1, 2014Bryan Hitch, Ian McQueIn a flashback, Sheldon and his friends explore the island and encounter aliens who grant them superhuman abilities. In the present, the story has jumped forward nine years to show Chloe, Hutch and their eight-year-old genius son Jason trying to live inconspicuous lives in Australia while hiding from Brandon, Walter and the other superheroes, who have taken over the world and created a police state. Although Chloe and Hutch have raised Jason to fake mediocre performances in both academic and extracurricular activities to avoid detection, he secretly uses his superhuman abilities to engage in clandestine heroics. Meanwhile, Brandon is troubled by the street riots and food shortages that characterize the regime he and Walter have created, as well as their inability to find Chloe. Walter urges him not to lose faith in their work, and also reveals that suspicious activity in Australia may lead to Chloe, and that "the professionals" will look into it. 5 January 14, 2015Bryan Hitch, Duncan FegredoJason's secret is deduced by his schoolmates and his mother, and when he falls victim to a trap laid by the U.S. government's hunter of superhuman refugees, Barnabas Wolfe, his parents are brought out of hiding to rescue him, thus blowing their cover. Afterwards, the Hutchences resolve to round up Hutch's criminal friends and mount a resistance against Walter and Brandon, knowing that the latter's forces outnumber them five to one.
Volume 2 Issue # Release date Variant cover artists 1 June 29, 2016 Frank Quitely, Jae Lee, Mike Mayhew, Rob Liefeld In Santa Fe in 1991, George Hutchence (aka Skyfox) meets his son, Hutch, for the first time. When Hutch tells his father that Blue-Bolt is his favorite superhero, George builds him a power rod just like Blue-Bolt's out of a flashlight and other improvised parts, before being confronted by Walter and other superheroes. In 2020, Hutch and Chloe recruit several supercriminals from around the globe, including Tornado, Neutrino, Shockwave, Light Girl, the Wood King, Automaton, Jack Frost and Tattoo. To free their final, crucial recruit, Repro, from his Dubai prison, Jason confronts Raikou, who guards Repro. 2 July 27, 2016 The rebels attack Raikou as a diversion in order to stage their breakout of the imprisoned Repro. It is revealed that Raikou is Walter Sampson's daughter, that both she and Repro have the same telepathic powers he does, and that the rebels intend to employ both telepaths against Walter and his regime. At a presentation of a new type of engine invented by Walter's son, Jules, to the American auto industry in Detroit, a member of a Baptist-Jihadi alliance detonates a bomb, prompting an enraged Brandon to conquer China (despite that country's lack of complicity in the event), and take control of the global economy. At Skyfox's old headquarters in Africa, as the rebels consider their next move, Jason says that his meta gene scanner has located Skyfox. 3 August 31, 2016 Hutch, Chloe and Jason journey to George Hutchence's hideaway in Russia to seek his help freeing all the captured superhumans from the Supermax prison George designed, but George, who feels that his attempts to fight oppression were not appreciated by the public, refuses, believing the public deserves to be ruled by corrupt leaders. He also rebuffs the trio when Jason makes a remark about George's abandonment of Hutch as a child. As the rebels plan an attack on the prison, Chloe proposes marriage to Hutch. Having had a change of heart, George appears at the rebels' hideout to join them in their mission. 4 October 12, 2016 After Walter's son Jules finds Jason's metahuman gene detecting satellite on the Moon, he repairs it, allowing Walter and Brandon's team to attack the rebels' otherwise invisible headquarters floating over Florida. This spurs Hutch and Jason to enact their Supermax breakout plan prematurely, while the rebels, aided by George, engage Walter and Brandon's forces in a furious battle, which sees Walter fatally incinerate George. Distracted by their attempt to rescue the occupants of a jetliner attacked by Walter, Hutch and Chloe are overpowered by Walter and his loyalists. 5 July 5, 2017 In the final battle, Brandon and his cohorts attack Chloe, while Walter fends off both a telepathic attack by Repro and the high-tech tactics of Hutch's power rod, which Hutch teleports into Walter's head, killing him. Jason and Neutrino free the prisoners at the Supermax prison, who then join the battle, leading to the defeat of Brandon and his allies. The victors remove their enemies' superhuman abilities and have them imprisoned. Hutch, Chloe and Jason decide to resume their parents' work by taking on the mantle of Skyfox, Lady Liberty, and the Utopian, respectively, realizing that secret identities allow the heroes to live humbly among those they protect. They also vow to remain autonomous of both governments and corporations, so that both boardrooms and alleyways are subject to scrutiny.
Jupiter's Circle
Volume 1