Talk:Interlac

JMR Reference

When clicking on the link, you get a post from JMS saying he would love to work on the Legion Comic Book. It mentions nothing of Interlac, its use in Babylon 5 or anything else really relevant to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aapold (talk • contribs) 17:50, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Bits and pieces

I suspect this may be turned into a disambig page. --Altenmann >talk 19:44, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

here they say "Interlac" was first introduced by the late great E. Nelson Bridwell, as the language spoken by the Wonder Twins in the SUPERFRIENDS comic book back in the seventies,

here it say "Interlac is a language created for the Legion of Super-Heroes, and in the comics, nothing more than a different writing system for English, with all letters corresponding to the Latin alphabet."

[1] : "Interlac – the intergalactic universal language of the 30th century and the Legion of Super-Heroes – was first referenced in Adventure Comics No. 379, March 1969. It was turned into a tangible alphabet with Paul Levitz, Keith Giffen and letterer John Costanza in Legion of Super-Heroes v2 No. 311, May 1984." Others say in was Legion of Super-Heroes v2 No. 312 June 1984

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from wp Robby Reed:

House of Mystery #156 (January 1966), and his storyline continued until issue #173 (March–April 1968). The art was by Jim Mooney (though he did not finish the run), with scripts by Dave Wood.[1]

The original owner of the dial is portrayed as Robert "Robby" Reed, a highly intelligent teenager with a penchant for exclaiming "Sockamagee!" He lives in the fictional town of Littleville, Colorado with his grandfather "Gramps" Reed and their housekeeper Miss Millie. During a camping trip, Robby accidentally falls into a cavern and discovers the dial in one of its alcoves. The origins of the dial and how it came to be in the cavern are never revealed.[2]

Resembling a rotary telephone dial, the device is hand-held with unknown symbols inside the dial's finger- openings and along its outer rim, which Robby deciphers into modern English letters. In Mark Waid's "Silver Age" mini-series, it is revealed that the symbols on the dial are Interlac

Is Wonder Twins the best reference here?

I can see from the history that this page used to have a different structure, including more info on DC Comics, and it was changed into a disambiguation page. That makes sense, sure, but I wonder if salient DC Comics usage could be included more effectively. In DC Comics, the term "Interlac" is used most often (to my knowledge) by the Legion of Super-Heroes and related properties. This is where the name of the fan magazine came from, as explained on the Interlac (APA) page, but it's not the same thing as the magazine. From 1969, it also predates the 1978 usage listed. But it's also been used in other DC properties since, which don't involve the Legion or the Wonder Twins. So that leaves me wondering: is the Wonder Twins the best reference to be made here? Or perhaps could we have some kind of structure like DC Comics as a bullet point and specific notable properties as sub-points?

(I'll be honest, I don't have enough experience with Wikipedia to feel confident restructuring a list like that. I don't want to step on anyone's toes.) Aliengeometries (talk) 21:34, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

The page Legion of Super-Heroes does not mention interlac. We can list here only articles that mention Interlac citing reliable sources. --Altenmann >talk 21:49, 1 July 2025 (UTC)